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Another word for workable

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Adjective

  1. Capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out, as by hammering or pressure

    See also:

    flexible

  2. Capable of occurring or being done

    Idioms:
    See also:

    possible

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Another word for workable

Modifier
  1. See also:

    usable

    working

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Sentence Examples

  • The deposits consist of workable veins, 50 to 220 ft.

  • Workable coal beds are distributed through 3000 ft.

  • They consist chiefly of sandstone and conglomerate, but include workable seams of coal.

  • Veins of cinnabar are known elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain and Sierra Nevada regions but not in workable quantities.

  • The Nahuatl lapidaries had at hand many varieties of workable and beautiful stone - onyx, marble, limestone, quartz and quartz crystal, granite, syenite, basalt, trachyte, rhyolite, diorite and obsidian, the best of material prepared for them by nature; while the Mayas had only limestone, and hard, tenacious rock with which to work it, and timber for burning lime.

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