How to use "able" in a sentence

It's not difficult and I should be able to finish in about eighteen hours

The good news is that I should be able to climb over many of them

I wonder how long I'll be able to survive with the water I have left, only two-thirds of a litre

I will never be able to cut through them with only a small knife.

I'll never be able to climb it - I'm too weak

Even with Eric's help, I know I won't be able to climb it

It wouldn't be long before I would be able to go climbing again

And this meant that the enemy was able to come back and find us, so we had to get out fast.

He showed me how to catch shrimps with the net, and it was so easy that an idiot was able to do it!

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of ''interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope

With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood

With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day - this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

But you won't be able to prove that, you know

You won't be able to prove anything!'

Inspector Abbeline, a very able and experienced detective, interviewed him on November 12th - and believed his story

After selling her hair to the barber, Fantine was able to buy a woollen dress, which she sent to the Thenardiers

He felt sad that Fantine had not lived to see her child again, but happy that he had been able to rescue her child from the terrible Thenardiers

He would be able to climb the wall on his own, but how could he carry Cosette? Suddenly, he had an idea

If I hurry, I might be able to catch him

'Where are you going tomorrow evening? I won't be able to sleep if you don't tell me.'

"Do you think we'll ever be able to travel like you did?" Sala asked

That was how Sala and her family were able to live in their rooftop apartment.

"Because you're just lying in the pod, they're able to store all the heat energy that your body creates

"I'll worry about it and then I won't be able to swim."

A bit too clever, said a voice in Sala's head: they'd been together, and yet not together; they were able to talk to each other, but sometimes experienced things separately

She's able to cross the boundary."

"Well, Gran," said Sala, "maybe one day, when Cham comes out of the pod, and they've managed to break through the force field, we really will be able to go together

"When he comes out, we'll be able to move to a sky apartment

I should not be able to speak to him at all

Seizing on this boy's resemblance to her Danny, she was too easily able to fantasize that there had been no loss in the first place.

She thought of herself as a tough, competent, levelheaded woman who was able to deal with anything life threw at her, and she was disturbed by her continuing inability to accept Danny's death.

She was able to think about the boy without crying, to visit his grave without being overcome by grief

She needed only to ride out the next few days, and in the relative calm that would follow, she might be able to get on with healing herself.

At the time, Tina was certain that Danny was aware of the nightly arguments she and Michael were having in their own bedroom, which was next to his, and that he wanted to move into the den so he wouldn't be able to hear them bickering

Although the funeral had been more than a year ago, she had not yet been able to dispose of Danny's belongings

She'd be able to relax and take a few days off

She was in such an excellent mood that she didn't think even the sight of his room would be able to bring her down, as it usually did

She was tall, slender, striking, fifty-five years old but able to pass for a well-preserved forty.

With that attitude plus a few money-management skills, they were able to hang on longer than most slot players who plunged at the dollar machines after getting nowhere with quarters, and because of their patience and perseverance, the duchesses won more jackpots than did the tide of tourists that ebbed and flowed around them

She wasn't able to identify the source of the sound

Although Magyck! Excited the imagination and commanded the eye, Elliot wasn't able to give his undivided attention to it

But she wasn't able to imagine what it could be.

This crowd wasn't able to sit on its hands and keep its cool.

Tina was on an adrenaline high, grinning, breathless, barely able to absorb the overwhelming response to her work

"But will you be able to resist?"

She wasn't sure she would be able to get any more sleep, but she had to try

She doubted that he would be able to answer that question even if he were present to hear it

This time she was able to hold the glass in one hand.

She had to take another small sip of cognac before she was able to say what was on her mind, and she realized that he had been right about the liquor having little effect on her

I'm never able to reach him

I wouldn't be able to fantasize about Danny still being alive."

remains, I won't be able to entertain any more doubts

That'll improve my psychological condition for sure, and I'll be better able to deal with the creep, whoever he is

The mother wasn't even able to attend the service

"You think he'll be able to do that?"

Most likely, Michael won't be able to get hold of a judge until Monday morning, and by then it'll be too late."

"Hell, you won't be able to tell them who we were or where they can start looking for us

While he was still under the influence of the drug, they might be able to make him write a suicide note and sign it in a legible, identifiable script

She'd never been able to understand this morbid streak in him

If this was what Danny had read before going to bed at night, how had he been able to sleep so well? He'd always been a deep, unmoving sleeper, never troubled by bad dreams.

The garage was slightly musty, but Tina wasn't able to detect the odor of gas.

Vince would survive, although he might need hospitalization, and he wouldn't be able to swallow without pain for days to come.

He would never be able to con an unlisted number out of the directory-assistance operator

She was more able to believe that he was joking than that he had really been in danger

We should be able to talk without being overheard

Ideally, I'd even like to be able to hand the reporter a neat theory about what really happened to those scouts, something sensational that he can hook his story onto."

We'll be able to find coats and whatever else we need, and we'll find it all in a hurry." He left a generous tip for the waitress and got to his feet

Tina wasn't able to cover her ears; her arms hung straight down at her sides, frozen, rigid, hands fisted, and she couldn't find the will or the strength to lift them

If she tried to scream now, she would be able to do so, but she no longer wanted to scream.

In the Mercedes, in the darkness, with the doors locked, she said, "No wonder we haven't been able to figure it out!"

No wonder we haven't been able to find a solution."

He's able to move objects just by thinking about them

He's telekinetic, able to move objects with his mind

Then: "I'll be able to handle it."

Bruckster hadn't been able to get close to Evans when the dealer left the blackjack pit at the beginning of the break

The guard tried to find a pulse but wasn't able to do so

The longer he thought about it, the less Kennebeck was able to believe that the Evans woman knew the truth about her son

"Who knows? Maybe he's able to move objects by harnessing the heat energy in the air, changing it somehow

He wondered if he'd be able to handle the weapon properly if the need arose.

All of his life, for reasons he had never been able to fully ascertain, he had been fascinated by death, intrigued by the form and nature and possibilities of it, enthralled by the study and theory of its meaning

Elliot had suggested a change in the color of ink, so they would be able to tell the difference between the meaningless scribbles that were already on the map and any new marks that might be made.

Elliot turned the map to be able to study it more closely.

Danny seemed able to work miracles with inanimate objects, but he could not control people, like the guard upstairs, whom Elliot had been forced to shoot

Then, even with Danny jamming the enemy's weapons, she and Elliot would be able to escape only if they slaughtered their way out, and she knew that neither of them had the stomach for that much murder, perhaps not even in self-defense.

If security discovers we're here, at least they won't be able to get their hands on us for a while."

For the past six or seven weeks, he hasn't been able to keep anything but liquids in his stomach

"Right now he's on the verge of starving to death because it's been so long since he's been able to keep any food in his stomach

They were never able to find an antibody or an antibiotic that was effective against it

"And by then he was able to pass the disease on to them," Tina said as she finished bundling Danny into the blanket.

She held Danny close, and she stared into his dark eyes, and she wasn't able to comfort herself with those words from the Bible

I long ago wore out the three pairs of shoes that I was able to buy with my after-expenses and after-tax income from the project which, had it come to fruition, might have been titled I Think There's a Rat Chewing My Foot in Dean Koontz's Theater

But we were never able to obtain any information from my sister-in-law

'I must be able to explain how and why it works.'

As Dr Haydock climbed into the driving seat, he said, 'You won't be able to put him in prison

It was a long time before he was able to answer my questions, and the answers he gave were puzzled and came in broken sentences.

At last the soldier was able to move, crawling at first, and he got to Woking

It ended with the words, 'Although they seem frightening, the Martians have not moved from the pit into which they have fallen, and don't seem able to do so.'

They were described as, 'great machines like spiders, nearly thirty metres high, as fast as an express train, and able to shoot out a beam of strong heat.'

The Martians are able to send out enormous clouds of black smoke

Through this I was able to see into what had been, only the previous night, a quiet road

But afterwards, during the second day, I was able to consider our position clearly

I thought that if I could attract it in quietly, I would be able, perhaps, to kill and eat it

If I had known, I would have left him at Walton, but I had not been able to see ahead

That night she is not able to convince her blackmailers to leave her alone, so she returns ihe next day

He may be able to speak to someone in your government office so that after the baby is born you can keep your job there.'

In 1993, she was able to be a lawyer again.

Even in Ancient Greece, women were able to study science.

Later, Nancy's father made a lot of money in business, and the children were able to get an education

She did many things that women were not able to do before, like being an MP

William thought that women should also be able to go into space