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Sizable   /sˈaɪzəbəl/   Listen
Sizable

adjective
1.
Fairly large.  Synonyms: ample, sizeable.  "An ample waistline" , "Of ample proportions"
2.
Large in amount or extent or degree.  Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizeable, tidy.  "A goodly amount" , "Received a hefty bonus" , "A respectable sum" , "A tidy sum of money" , "A sizable fortune"






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"Sizable" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Probably is. I understand that Cambrai is about the largest place around here, and this seems to be quite a sizable village." ...
— The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders • Clair W. Hayes

... County, or sailed through Casco Bay, have added largely to the stock of notes; and finally the diaries of "the war," and the recollections of "the field," have contributed generously; so that, with quotations, and some help from other sources, a sizable volume ...
— How to Camp Out • John M. Gould

... coolly resuming his jacket, "you can pitch 'em all into the baskets, all the sizable ones, and put all the little ones back into the watter. I'll throost the punt back, so as young Tom Tallington can get ...
— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn

... had but a moment's glimpse of Coldriver before he decided he had moved there, but the glimpse showed him the location was the one he had been searching for.... Scattergood's specialty, his hobby, was valleys. Valleys down which splashed and roared sizable streams, whose mountain sides were covered with timber, and whose flats were comfortable farms—such valleys interested him with an especial interest. But the valley he had been looking for was one with but a single possible outlet. He wanted a valley whose timber and produce and products could ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland

... exclaimed the farmer, in awe. "That was a purty sizable fire! I say, stranger, I guess I was a leetle mite hasty just now. You've saved us from a bad fire, all right, though I swum I don't see how you ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters - or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed • Robert Maitland


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