Example Sentences

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“Drive” already has to contend with the fact that, like all sports shows, it is straightforwardly spoilable, so additional contrivances just add more drag.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

But Tony’s redemptive arc builds to a Scrooge-on-Christmas-morn’ epiphany that’s too telegraphed to be spoilable and too sudden to feel genuine.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2019

Forever, the new series starring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen, is deeply spoilable.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2018

I’d issue a spoiler alert, but it’s too dumb to be spoilable: His biggest fear in life was kissing a girl.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2018

The only evil of rain that I know of, to healthy persons in exercise, is that it spoils the clothes; and the clothes of a pedestrian traveller are not usually of a spoilable quality.

From How to Observe Morals and Manners by Martineau, Harriet