How to Use amenable in a Sentence

amenable

adjective
  • Will the team be amenable to uses of the field and the locker rooms?
    Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The trouble is that Mr Lukashenko might not be amenable.
    Erasmus, The Economist, 21 July 2019
  • Tear it down to, to build something that’s more amenable.
    Leila Atassi, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022
  • That may have made the regime more amenable to his visit.
    New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Others were more amenable to the project, pointing to the city’s lack of housing.
    Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • So the Mods were amenable when the group approached them for a full partnership.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Although the brand was respected, the wood was not amenable to a sweet sound.
    Ayla Samli, Longreads, 14 May 2024
  • Of the rag-tag bunch, Ghostemane is among the most amenable to bringing the music of his youth to the forefront.
    Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 2 Nov. 2017
  • But now, a few things have changed that might make Google more amenable to this kind of feature.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Moussallem seemed amenable, but then changed his tune, Shaw said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
  • Thompson finished fourth in the NBA in 3-point makes and was amenable to the kind of bench role the Warriors will want him in the future.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
  • If the Nets are amenable to such a framework, the Sixers have to weigh whether the short-term upside outweighs the long-term risks.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Also, look for their input into how to make the workspace more amenable.
    John Baldoni, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • Set clear, amenable rules of engagement for video calls.
    Benoni Tagoe, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But that doesn't mean that some aspects of the changes dogs have undergone aren't amenable to study.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2019
  • That doesn’t mean that all the remaining 37 percent are amenable to full-time WFA.
    Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The French government, which has a 15% stake in Renault, seemed amenable.
    The Economist, 6 June 2019
  • Ian gets really lucky and Brighid seems more than amenable to having a drink with the young man.
    Roxane Gay, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Palm Beach County voters have been amenable to school taxes in the past.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 May 2018
  • Beyond that, false claims about the virus are often cut-and-dry, and therefore more amenable to fact-checks.
    Whitney Phillips, Wired, 9 Apr. 2020
  • There wasn’t much to showcase, and the U.S. public was amenable to ignoring it.
    Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Aviation lives mainly in the world of physics and as such is more amenable to checklists.
    WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Which age groups are most amenable to in-person work, and which are most combative?
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 May 2024
  • Those court fights, and the probe as a whole, received a boost from an amenable executive branch.
    Zoe Tillman, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2022
  • This, of course, was seven years ago, before teams were more amenable to a two-PG system.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 18 June 2019
  • Even better, crack all of the windows a quarter of the way, if your passengers are amenable.
    Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
  • And no time of year is more amenable to helping hunters and trappers do just that than the coming couple of months.
    Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • This year, when Macellum boomeranged back, Kohl’s wasn’t so amenable.
    Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2022
  • Baseball isn’t merely amenable to snacking; the game is arranged around it.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Under Biden, the White House has been notably more amenable to journalists.
    Hugh Son, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024

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