How to Use manageable in a Sentence

manageable

adjective
  • The conditioner makes your hair more manageable.
  • They divided the students into three manageable groups.
  • We bought smaller, more manageable suitcases.
  • Belle lives 18 miles down I-80, a manageable drive most of the time.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This build needs the egg to keep the sweetness manageable.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2023
  • But there is a way to slow the flow, at least to a manageable trickle.
    — wsj.com, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Dream big, and at the same time create a manageable plan for your day to day.
    — Komal Minhas, Fortune, 10 May 2023
  • That will both speed production and keep the cost on the manageable side.
    — Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The key to a great road trip is keeping it manageable for a single day.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Bruce Pearl has Auburn at a place few thought was manageable a decade ago.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The Air Force seems to believe the risk is manageable, but Congress isn’t so sure.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The Chargers faced only two third downs and both were manageable: third and six and third and two.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Tua did very well at keeping it in second- and third-and-manageable on the opening drive.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Once the fire became more manageable, PGE crews came to check the damage.
    — oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2022
  • With the right planning, health care costs can be manageable.
    — Kate Ashford Of Nerdwallet, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
  • That would be a far more manageable pace for most audiences to keep up with the MCU.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The good news is that these habits are best added with small, manageable changes over a period of time.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • If not, the pain of failure will be fleeting and manageable.
    — John Bowe, Contributor, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024
  • That’s where the boundary is, and that’s where my life has become manageable.
    — ELLE, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The rest of the schedule is manageable, however, with plenty of winnable games both at home and on the road.
    — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Richmond will do its best to keep the pace manageable, but Iowa figures to have too many weapons.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The Jaguars’ schedule is manageable at least early, so a 4-2 or even 5-1 start is not out of the question.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 25 Aug. 2021
  • There is still lechón, rice, black beans and yucca but the portions are much more manageable.
    — Jessica Perez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The salon also raised prices, in part to slow growth a bit to a more manageable level, said Ms. Rivera.
    — Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 29 July 2021
  • That payment would have been $4,500 a couple of years ago, which was much more manageable.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • Yeah, because right now, all of her lovers are manageable.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Paul said that the rain was manageable, but crops don’t grow without sunlight.
    — Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • Use a trimmer to eliminate longer hair and cut it down to a more manageable length.
    — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Best Bathroom Cleaners These deep and daily cleaners make one of the grossest places in your house more manageable.
    — Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2025
  • At the very least, the centralized app seems poised to make the increasingly complicated job of NHL general manager slightly more manageable.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Mar. 2025

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