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verb

enable

CEFR B1

render capable or able for some task

In a sentence

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

  • A second battery enables the drone to survey the whole valley in one flight instead of three.

    Technology

  • The lightweight brace enables her to climb stairs unaided, something she had not managed since the operation.

    Medicine

  • Cheap container shipping enabled small workshops to sell abroad, and coastal towns filled with firms of twelve people.

    Economics

  • A small grant enabled the two founders to quit their day jobs and build the prototype full time for six months.

    Startups

  • A heavy cast-iron pan enables a home cook to sear steak properly, holding heat that a thin pan loses at once.

    Cooking

  • Steel frames enabled architects to hang glass walls from the structure, since the brick no longer had to carry the floors.

    Architecture

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