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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sizable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sizable crowd
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sizable list could be compiled of painters who were in one way or another influenced by these photographs.
▪ Carolina stormed to a sizable 28-7 halftime lead by doing what all teams do to the Raidersrunning the ball.
▪ Counts in these Harbours, however, illustrated in Fig. 10, have regularly recorded sizable flocks from September to April.
▪ He is now giving Alan and Jody a realistic picture of what it takes to bring in a sizable endowment.
▪ Judging from the election results, a sizable number of voters agreed that change was needed.
▪ Male speaker Coxes have a sizable effect on their crews but they don't dictate whether they win or lose.
▪ Through word of mouth and demand from customers, they've built up a sizable business with five drivers.
▪ Without them sizable part of its economy would be in danger of collapse.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sizable

Sizable \Siz"a*ble\, a.

  1. Of considerable size or bulk. ``A sizable volume.''
    --Bp. Hurd.

  2. Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk.
    --Arbuthnot.

Wiktionary
sizable

a. (context US Canada English) fairly large alt. (context US Canada English) fairly large

WordNet
sizable
  1. adj. fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of ample proportions" [syn: ample, sizeable]

  2. large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune" [syn: goodly, goodish, hefty, respectable, sizeable, tidy]

Usage examples of "sizable".

Lieutenant Arpy whistled at the sizable crowd gathered around a fire that was being fed by newly-chopped orchard trees.

But, fortunately for us, she came of farming stock and eventually became the emancipist owner of a sizable sheep run on the Nepean River.

Either Kemper would crash the art racket and force a sizable cut for himself - or the art racket would cease to be of any practical use to the three partners in crime who now fancied themselves so secure.

Sunken into the lintel of its arched doorway was a sizable ward, made up of intricate knotwork patterns etched into a bronze plate.

During a lull in the carousing, I dealt each of my three human companions a niobium EFT card primed with the agreed-upon stipend, plus a sizable bonus.

A fleeing ring ouzel hurtled across the little clearing on blurring wings, and a sizable shrew, fearing the bear more than the evidence of its nose, rushed in among the men, headed directly for the fire.

If we kept following the Ringway, we would see the headquarters of the Municipal Police, the State Police, and the Fire Brigade, three sizable six-story cubes.

As the seer-mages turned to face the sabha together, a collective murmur rose from the sizable contingent of brahmins that made up more than half the mass of the crowd.

The Bajoran had spent the last hour rigging up an audio alarm on the seismograph so that it would awaken her if there was a sizable jump in the readings.

So John had moved in, and they would be putting on a sizable addition once sugaring season was done.

Some score of sizable rivers run unutilized in the Province to-day, of which the Talavera alone could irrigate, if put in complete harness, 10,000 hectares of rice land.

My guess is that he broke through into a sizable voog hole and kept his mouth shut when he realized what he had found.

A place she had every reason not to return to, having left behind there a gaggle of enraged Yhelle Equality Rangers, a burning casino called the Black Whole, and a sizable amount of money.

Vancouver, which besides having the most scenic airship moorage in the world, boasted a sizable Adantan clave.

No working lights could be seen anywhere along the street, so the outage obviously affected at least a sizable neighborhood.