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  • adjective Capable of being entertained.

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  • Sounds entertainable .... blog comments powered by Disqus

    Early Buzz Report: Oliver Stone’s W. | /Film 2008

  • Those slightly-built wooden dwellings behind which the sun was setting with a brilliant lustre, could be so looked through and through, that the idea of any inhabitant being able to hide himself from the public gaze, or to have any secrets from the public eye, was not entertainable for a moment.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • They started following certain people and going to certain race tracks, seeing what was entertainable to them.

    Oral History Interview with Junior Johnson, June 4, 1988. Interview C-0053. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1988

  • On the supposition that the angels are created by God a supposition the philosopher can make as an entertainable possibility, the answer just given can be expanded.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • But that supposition was not entertainable for any considerable length of time, inasmuch as the people without any prompting intimated that they had been informed that the militia law had not been put into force, but that if the Governor should call for their services they were ready to obey him.

    The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

  • Now, Lagardere had been listening very patiently while Æsop spoke, and while he listened a thought came into his mind which at first seemed too fantastic for consideration, but which grew more tempting and more entertainable with every second.

    The Duke's Motto A Melodrama 1898

  • Those slightly-built wooden dwellings, behind | which the sun was setting with a brilliant lustre, could be so looked through and through, that the idea of any inhabitant being able to hide himself from the public gaze, or to have any secrets from the public eye, was not entertainable for a moment.

    American Notes 1842

  • Those slightly-built wooden dwellings behind which the sun was setting with a brilliant lustre, could be so looked through and through, that the idea of any inhabitant being able to hide himself from the public gaze, or to have any secrets from the public eye, was not entertainable for a moment.

    American Notes Charles Dickens 1841

  • He says: "In all fairness, the argument [of defendants] cannot be met by reinterpreting the Court's frequent use of 'clear' and 'present' to mean an entertainable 'probability.'

    The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

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