considerable

In a sentence

Six example sentences with considerable, each labelled with its topic.

• The abbey held considerable land by the twelfth century, enough that its tenants outnumbered the townspeople nearby.

  History

• Adding a considerable amount of weight in one week is how most beginners meet their first shoulder injury.

  Fitness

• The bench gave the team a considerable advantage in the fourth quarter, outscoring the visiting starters by fourteen points.

  Basketball

• The fund built up a considerable cash reserve during the boom, which is why it could buy when others were selling.

  Finance

• Reaching the monastery takes considerable effort, three hours of stairs cut into the cliff with no shade anywhere.

  Travel

• The cantilever puts considerable strain on the back wall, so the engineers doubled the steel where the roof meets it.

  Architecture

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Each source is a published word list that contains considerable. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• constitution
• trend
• channel
• occupied
• implementation
• revise
• accompanied
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• rational
• publishing
• controversial
• resource