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Sizable  adj.  
1.
Of considerable size or bulk. "A sizable volume."
2.
Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk.





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"Sizable" Quotes from Famous Books



... open one, flip the pages, put it back and open another. She kept that up quite some time. I wasn't noticing special until she took out three or four together, reached into the space they left and pulled out a sizable gray book that had fallen down behind the stock—or been ...
— The House of Mystery • William Henry Irwin
... those just listed mean the taxpayer is more than getting his money's worth from American space exploration—and getting a sizable chunk of it today. ...
— The Practical Values of Space Exploration • Committee on Science and Astronautics
... years of age perfect of limb, able and fitt for service who shall alsoe be continually provided with a well fixed musquett or fuzee, a good pistoll, sharp simeter, tomahawk and five pounds of good clean pistoll powder and twenty pounds of sizable leaden bulletts or swan or goose shott to be kept within the fort directed by this act besides the powder and shott for his necessary or useful shooting at game. Provided also that the said warlike christian man shall have his dwelling and continual ...
— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner
... face grew wistful. "If you jest see it once, the way it is, you'd know what I mean: kind o' big sweeps,"—he waved his arm over acres of moor,—"an' a good deal o' sky—room enough for clouds, sizable ones, and wind. You'd o't to hear our wind." He paused, helpless, before the wind. He ...
— Uncle William - The Man Who Was Shif'less • Jennette Lee
... yards away, he got a good view, and it did look like there might be a sizable hole under the stump. He studied it carefully with the glasses. There was a smooth-beaten mound in front, and exposed roots were ...
— Cat and Mouse • Ralph Williams
... and provided it be suave and brief and conventional, one seldom questions—or thinks "very strange" and then forgets. One has an impression from geography lessons: Mediterranean not more than three inches wide, on the map; Switzerland only a few more inches away. These sizable masses of salt are described in the Amer. Jour. Sci., 3-3-239, as "essentially imperfect cubic crystals of common salt." As to occurrence with hail—that can in one, or ten, or twenty, instances be called ...
— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort


Words linked to "Sizable" :   respectable, ample, goodish, considerable, healthy, big, hefty, tidy, large, goodly, sizeable


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