How to Use believable in a Sentence

believable

adjective
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  • The goal was not to go for 1970s on the nose, but to date things a few years prior to make the world feel believable.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
  • To build a believable bronze, dust the highest points of your face: the top of the cheekbones, (lightly) across the forehead, and down the bridge of the nose.
    — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 24 Feb. 2023
  • So, my whole thing was to make the story very believable.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
  • But the Spurs are 3-1 with a -0.9 net rating right now, which isn’t believable at all.
    — Charles Curtis, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
  • That the O’Neils desire vengeance is believable enough.
    — Tod Goldberg, USA TODAY, 16 May 2022
  • There’s not a minute in Mudbound that doesn’t feel deeply felt and believable.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 30 July 2024
  • These horrors are all too believable, and that is part of the problem.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The result: their speedy courtship is more believable, less creepy.
    — cleveland, 7 Dec. 2021
  • While the plot leak seems believable, there’s no way to verify any of this right now.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Oct. 2021
  • So the notion people are drifting in and out of time in that city seems very believable.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Which may make her version of events just that much more believable.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Showing through images and videos makes the words far more believable to the viewer.
    — Yec, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Dafoe had his costar slap him in real life around 20 times to help make the action look more believable!
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The secret to making the faux flecks equal parts believable and wearable?
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Kya’s crushes and heartbreaks are some of the only parts of Where the Crawdads Sing that are close to believable.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
  • In some cases, the caller might even know your name and address, which makes the call sound more believable.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2022
  • As beloved as the show has become, it's also known for its not-so-believable plot points.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 July 2021
  • At a Chicago-believable $4 a gallon, that’s $180 a month in gas.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2020
  • First, states need to threaten a response that is both scary and believable.
    — Erica Borghard, Wired, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Some are easy to spot while others are more believable.
    — Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 2024
  • But so there was something about that that was believable.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Despite the efforts to make the chess scenes believable, there are still areas in which the series comes up short.
    — Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2020
  • What comes across as silly—and what is just outlandish enough to be believable?
    — Margret Grebowicz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Most of the time, the more believable answer is almost always true.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
  • Thompson and Asomugha’s on-screen love is electric, believable in the best kind of way.
    — Tanya Christian, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2020
  • These moments, while not believable in any fashion, lend themselves to the quirky nature of the game.
    — Elise Favis, Washington Post, 12 July 2020
  • This timeline makes the next legend a bit more believable.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Which makes his big, evil reveal that much more compelling, and that much more believable.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The scammers will at times use deepfake video and audio clips of government officials to make the scam more believable.
    — Frank McKenna, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • More believable than Kim Kardashian claiming her daughter North posted a bikini shot of her, but not by much.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2024

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