sizable

adjective siz·able \ ˈsī-zə-bəl \

variants: or sizeable

Updated on: 3 Dec 2017

Definition of sizable

: fairly large : considerable

a sizable donation

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sizableness

noun

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sizably

play \ˈsī-zə-blē\ adverb

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Examples of sizable in a Sentence

a sizable portion of the population
He won by a sizable margin.

Recent Examples of sizable from the Web

Custom steel staircases lead to the second floor, where there are two bedrooms with custom closets and access to a sizable terrace with a Wolf natural-gas grill, made private by the Japanese paper glass wall surrounding it.

— Teen Vogue, "Taylor Swift Became Her Own Next-Door Neighbor by Purchasing This Townhouse for $18 Million," 3 Nov. 2017
That means bad news for cruise lines that do a sizable chunk of their business in the region.

— chabeli herrera, miamiherald, "Most of the Caribbean is still open for cruises. Here’s what ports are open and closed," 16 Oct. 2017
Many places that have adopted Indigenous Peoples Day since then, including Alaska, have sizable Native American populations.

— CBS News, "Columbus Day shines light on growing movement to replace holiday," 9 Oct. 2017
About 400 homeless people who live in a community of cabins and tents in a low-lying parcel of land near St. Petersburg, which has a sizable homeless population, had to leave after a mandatory evacuation order.

— marc santora, henry fountain and vivian yee, New York Times, "Irma’s Fearsome Winds Reach Florida Shores, With Full Strike Yet to Come," 9 Sep. 2017
Also, for the sizable population of people who resettled in Houston after evacuating Louisiana during Katrina, the event could simply compound an existing trauma.

— vann r. newkirk ii, The Atlantic, "Hurricane Harvey’s Public-Health Nightmare," 2 Sep. 2017
Of the remaining employable adults in the Las Vegas Valley, a sizable chunk of them work in hospitality support services (construction, health care), and the rest work for Zappos.

— nicole rupersburg, Cosmopolitan, "What It's Really Like to Live in Vegas," 14 Apr. 2015
Here at the company's design center—a sizable garage stuffed with milling machines, attached to offices where designers render parts in SolidWorks—the first prototype is parked before us.

— ezra dyer, Popular Mechanics, "The Bollinger B1 Is What You'd Get If You Electrified a Land Rover," 10 Oct. 2017
Iraqi Kurds have long dreamed of independence — something the Kurdish people were denied when colonial powers drew the map of the Middle East after World War I. The Kurds form a sizable minority in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq.

— susannah george and balint szlanko, chicagotribune.com, "Iraqi Kurds vote in referendum on independence from Baghdad," 25 Sep. 2017

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