How to Use explicable in a Sentence

explicable

adjective
  • It was thought to be explicable in terms of will and commitment to God.
    — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2016
  • That just makes how Núñez is feeling less explicable for the club.
    — Tim Britton, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Our father had just endured the worst days of his life, indeed was still in the midst of them, and such a lapse ought to be both explicable and forgivable.
    — Justin Taylor, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Our father had just endured the worst days of his life, indeed was still in the midst of them, and such a lapse ought to be both explicable and forgivable.
    — Justin Taylor, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • All this was explicable in part as a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of voting in the Tory leadership contest against Boris.
    — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 13 July 2019
  • All this was explicable in part as a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of voting in the Tory leadership contest against Boris.
    — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 13 July 2019
  • The self-driving car suddenly opts to come to a stop, yet the human drivers see no explicable reason for the self-driving car to do so.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But the eastern connections of the Munda languages seem clear, albeit less explicable than those of the Khasi or the Tibeto-Burman peoples of the far northeast.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2010
  • Some of this is explicable by more or less natural factors.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2017
  • This one feels like an explicable blip: the two best players out for large stretches, others out due to era-defining pandemic, a tough schedule.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Coca-Cola has also disappeared, for no explicable reason, as has the band Oasis, which may be the movie’s best and most inside-y joke.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 27 June 2019
  • These scenes are not very frightening, or even explicable.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Life, according to Crick, was an epiphenomenon of physics and chemistry — complex, yes, but still explicable in molecular terms.
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Science, after all, is about what is observable, quantifiable, testable, predictable, explicable — and dreams are none of these things.
    — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The news comes as Twitter has been roiled by market turbulence and Musk's not-entirely-explicable concerns about the number of fake accounts on Twitter.
    — CBS News, 26 May 2022
  • Trump’s vilification of Hillary Clinton, Atwood believes, is more explicable when seen through the lens of the Puritan witch-hunts.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Most African Americans align with the Democratic Party for reasons that are explicable in terms of broad attitudes.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 May 2018
  • Most African Americans align with the Democratic Party for reasons that are explicable in terms of broad attitudes.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 May 2018
  • Less explicable to some observers is the lack of any apparent PR attempt to rehabilitate Miller’s image.
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • Plot is set against a backdrop of police negligence in the late 1990s and follows a real-life account of a woman forced to request social housing due to explicable and dangerous occurrences in her own house.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
  • There's a surfeit of waiting around Chicago pools, with staff members barking commands and ordering people form lines for no explicable reason.
    — Laura Pearson, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Pamfilova’s cynicism is entirely explicable: in Russia, the constitution has rarely been a covenant of good governance between the state and the people.
    — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 9 July 2020
  • To do so would be to acknowledge the reality: that most violent or unusual deaths are tragic, yet sadly explicable.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2021
  • These are explicable in their origins and relationship.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2010
  • As ever, the director stamps it all with his unique aesthetic preferences, which are very deliberate if not always explicable.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Miracle, which the dictionary describes as a 'surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency', may be a bit much.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Earlier in Italian history, though, there was a clear and explicable crash in happiness in 1848, with the failure of revolutions intended to unite into a single nation what were then half a dozen disparate states.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • To the contrary, stress, fear, and sadness may be completely explicable reactions to difficult situations, not signs of a pathology.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The high-octane algorithms that power our current artificial intelligence boom have a way of doing things that aren’t outwardly explicable to the people observing them.
    — Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 23 May 2024
  • In other words, your body starts sweating without any explicable reason (like feelings of anxiety, hot temperatures, or exercise).
    — Rebecca Dancer, Allure, 29 June 2022

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