sensible

[ˈsensəbl]

Definition:
1. Able to make good judgements based on reason and experience rather than emotion; practical.
2. Showing reason or sound judgment.
3. Able to feel or perceive.
4. Acting with or showing thought and good sense.

Use 'sensible' in a sentence:

1. Instead, the most sensible thing would be for neighbors to combine efforts to produce as much food as possible, and thus aggregated towns were a sensible arrangement.
2. Critics have charged that this sensible idea would lead to rationing of care.
3. I'm trying to persuade you to be more sensible.
4. Crucially, as they opened up their markets, they balanced market economy with sensible government direction.
5. I shall come in with you, though, to talk to Clara, and you'll find her sensible.
6. Oh come on, let's be sensible about this.
7. We'll MAKE him be a sensible Toad.
8. We would view favourably any sensible suggestion for maintaining the business.
9. Their ideas seem to be far more down to earth and sensible.
10. It would be sensible to think twice before we make a decision.
11. With a few notable exceptions, doctors are a pretty sensible lot.
12. They've turned sensible, if you take my meaning.
13. What a very sensible woman!
14. The sensible thing is to leave them alone.
15. Without a sensible sex education all kinds of strange and fantastic ideas will take root.
16. It is sensible to go to school or go to work by subway instead of by car in the morning.
17. Say something sensible.
18. I think that's a very sensible idea.
19. Is it sensible to do this?
20. Even sensible Frank had fallen under her spell.
21. No sensible person would put his money in a bank he knew to be unsound.
22. But the most sensible form of adaptation is surely to adapt our energy systems to emit less carbon pollution.
23. WE'LL teach him to be a sensible Toad!
24. Learning to be mature and sensible can prevent us from becoming a constant source of worry to them.
25. It might be sensible to get a solicitor.
26. Wear loose clothing and sensible footwear.
27. The promise of a cure — the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow — often makes sensible people do irrational things.
28. A few sensible federal measures could put the country back on the right path.
29. It wasn't very sensible to go out on your own so late at night.
30. His advice was always sensible and his energy unbounded.
31. Pragma lovers also downplayed emotive aspects of relationships but favoured practical, sensible connections.
32. We figured the sensible thing to do was to wait.
33. Many of these problems can be minimised by sensible planning.
34. I want us to be a bit more sensible this time and tighten up.
35. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a sensible choice.
36. It might be sensible to get a lawyer.
37. As for the stuff you do need, choose a sensible place for placing it, and commit to keeping it there.
38. She was a sensible girl and did not panic.
39. It seemed a sensible and methodical way of proceeding.
40. Sometimes it is perfectly sensible to spawn a new thread for each new task.
41. I think the sensible thing would be to take a taxi home.
42. Asking for help is a sensible and mature thing to do.
43. She's a sensible sort of person.
44. Richard Dorrington was, in their eyes, a very sensible and reliable man.
45. I am sensible of the fact that mathematics is not a popular subject.
46. A luggage rack is a sensible option.
47. Usually, I am sensible with money, as I have to be, given that I don't earn that much.
48. Actually, it would be much more sensible to do it later.
49. You can improve your chances of profit by sensible planning.
50. She gave me some very sensible advice.
51. The former option would be much more sensible.