How to use "reasonable" in a sentence
Sentences
There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension
No foresight can anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions for all possible questions
"No, he's helping fix the equipment at the meat-growing laboratory, actually, and getting reasonable money for it
They didn't hike all the way into the true wilderness, just a reasonable distance off the beaten path, and they planned for every contingency
Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning
But it happens I know a very reasonable judge
At last, Vince said, "Be reasonable
And predicting that a runaway dog will be killed in traffic - that's just a reasonable assumption to make under the circumstances
Although he realized that he was going to lose the argument, Elliot said, "Be reasonable