Example Sentences

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The privileging of fixed points in linear time nearly guaranteed the erasure of Native histories, irreducible to dated or datable events.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2022

As particles in the air settle to the bottom of the lake, they form datable layers.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 3, 2021

Officials said bricks, datable pieces of 19th-century pottery, a button, a drawer pull, a pipe stem, old records and the location all pointed to the spot being the likely site of the Ben Ross cabin.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2021

The difference in playing Dallas or Chicago may be datable.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2018

Some fragments of his poems have been preserved—the earliest datable Norse poems which have come down to us.

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Kershaw, Nora