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'ABLE' in a movie sentence | examples for 'ABLE' from movies

Ross: Oh, thanks. Yeah, I really thought we’d be able to make it work, but uh, I guess it just wasn’t meant to be.

"Friends", season 6, episode 24

Rachel: Well obviously I won’t be able to come, for those of you who haven’t checked their calendars today is my due date. Well y’know, I just want to take a moment and thank you guys for how great you’ve been during this time. I really couldn’t have done it without you. And I have loved these last nine months! And even though I am so looking forward to the next part, I am really gonna miss being pregnant.

"Friends", season 8, episode 22

Estelle: Joey! It’s Estelle! Great news, I was able to get you and one guest tickets to your premiere.

"Friends", season 8, episode 22

Rachel: Ooh, I miss dating. Gettin’ all dressed up and going to a fancy restaurant. I’m not gonna be able to do that for so long, and it’s so much fun! I mean not that sitting at home worrying about giving birth to a sixteen pound baby is not fun.

"Friends", season 8, episode 12

Chandler: I'm sorry buddy, but I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it.

"Friends", season 9, episode 3

Chandler: Uch, do you think, Monica is gonna be able smell it?

"Friends", season 9, episode 5

Chandler: Well, I think I judged her too quickly, and this time we were able to take the relationship to the next level.

"Friends", season 4, episode 3

Chandler: Alright look, if it means that much to you, a may be able to get on more with the big boobs. But the giant ass and the big clown feet?

"Friends", season 9, episode 16

Ross: Ok, but you know what? I gotta say, I'm really impressed that you were able to memorize all this so quickly!

"Friends", season 9, episode 21

Joey: AH HAH! I DID IT! HA HA! Alright... (He takes a box out, about to close fridge, then thinks.) Better take all I can carry. Who knows when i'll be able to get in here again!

"Friends", season 9, episode 16

Rachel: Yes!! I mean sex does not have to be a big deal! There shouldn’t be all this rules and restrictions! Y’know, people should be able to sleep with who ever they want, whenever…

"Friends", season 6, episode 15

Chandler: You wanna talk about people's feelings? You should have heard how hurt professor Stern was yesterday when I told him I wouldn't be able to go with him to Key West!

"Friends", season 9, episode 17

(they all put their ear against the wall to be able to hear what's being said. We move to Ross's room where he and Charlie are kissing.)

"Friends", season 10, episode 1

Chandler: Wait, if we're lucky, and we're really really really quiet, we may be able to hear the sound of a condom breaking!

"Friends", season 9, episode 22

Ross: Ok, I gotta say. I mean, it means so much to me that you guys are coming all the way over there to hear me do my speech! UH! And I've a surprise, uh... I had to pull some strings but I was able to get everyone passes to the entire conference! That's right! (he gives them their passes) This babies will get you into all the paleontology lectures and seminars.

"Friends", season 9, episode 23

Ross: Well, ok, it's for 25 thousand dollars. And if I get it, I'll finally be able to complete my field research! And there will be an article about me in the "Paleontology Review"! Yeah! That'll be the first time my name is in there, without people raising serious questions about my work!

"Friends", season 10, episode 6

Monica: Well, if I had them taken out, then I wouldn't be able to do this. (she pushes Chandler on the couch and brushes her hair and shells against Chandler's chest) You like that, right? (again, she brushes her hair against his chest and hums...)

"Friends", season 10, episode 1

Rachel: Oh my God! I can not believe that! I mean I don’t really like it when Ross goes out with anyone, but my sister isn’t that like incest or something?! Oh my God, and they’re gonna have sex! Oh! Oh no what if he marries her too?! Oh this is just terrible, this is just terrible. And I can’t stop it! I can’t—I don’t own Ross! Y’know? And Jill, she should be able to do whatever it is that she wants to do! And oh my God, I can’t believe Ross is marrying my little sister, this terrible. Oh my God, this is just the worst thing that could have ever happened to me.

"Friends", season 6, episode 13

Ross: (To Phoebe and Mike) I can't believe you guys aren't going to be able to get married today.

"Friends", season 10, episode 12

Rachel: Well, it gets worse. When asked if you take initiative I wrote, "Yes, he was able to unhook my bra with minimal supervision," and under Problems with Performance I wrote, "Dear God, I hope not," and then uh, then I drew a little smiley face, and then a small pornographic sketch.

"Friends", season 7, episode 9

Ross: (enters) It's me. Ron. (Mr. Zellner looks annoyed) Look, I um, I now Rachel turned you down but I think there is a way you might be able to get her to come back.

"Friends", season 10, episode 15

Joey: So that’s why I feed my dog Purina One! Pick up a bag today! (He turns, looks at the bag and realizes he won’t be able to pick it up.)

"Friends", season 6, episode 4

Lorraine: You know, ever since I was little, I've been able to pick up quarters with my toes.

"Friends", season 1, episode 14

Erica: Hey, well, in a couple of weeks I won't be able to travel.

"Friends", season 10, episode 16

Phoebe: Okay. I'd- just- I'd never be able to enjoy it. It would be like this giant karmic debt.

"Friends", season 1, episode 3

JOEY: Great. Then you'll be able to spend more quality time with your real friends, the spoons.

"Friends", season 2, episode 16

Danny: (To Monica) On the date, I will be able to talk to her directly? (To Rachel) See ya Friday. (He walks out.)

"Friends", season 5, episode 10

Pete: ...so y'know, that’s why, within a few years, that voice recognition is gonna be pretty much standard on any computer you buy. Y'know, so you could be like-like, ‘Wash my car.’ ‘Clean my room.’ It’s not gonna be able to do any of those things, but it’ll understand what you’re saying.

"Friends", season 3, episode 19

Joey: Y'know what I mean, about how I'm always going out with all these women. And I always figured, when the right one comes along, I'd be able to be a stand-up guy and go the distance, y'know? Now I'm looking at my dad, thinking...

"Friends", season 1, episode 13

Joey:  I play Al Pacino's butt. All right? He goes into the shower, and then- I'm his butt. Monica: (trying not to laugh) Oh my God. Joey:  C'mon, you guys. This is a real movie, and Al Pacino's in it, and that's big! Chandler: Oh no, it's terrific, it's- it's- y'know, you deserve this, after all your years of struggling, you've finally been able to crack your way into show business. Joey: Okay, okay, fine! Make jokes, I don't care! This is a big break for me! Ross: You're right, you're right, it is.

"Friends", season 6, episode 20

Rachel: Oh, Joey, you know what, no-one is gonna be able to tell.

"Friends", season 1, episode 6

Ross: Well, Rachel moving to another country? Not being able to see her every day. How can I be okay with this?

"Friends", season 10, episode 15

Ross: Well, technically it seven billion years ago… (Well, technically you’d be able to see it for days, well nights; that is if you could see it with all of the bright lights of New York.)

"Friends", season 7, episode 12

Ross: He couldn't even tell me! He said it was just some sort of skin... abnormality. And the worst thing is he-he-he said, he said, without being able to identify it, he was reluctant to remove it.

"Friends", season 3, episode 23

Phoebe: I’m sorry I won’t be able to make it to your imaginary wedding, but I’m really busy that day. Yeah, I already have a unicorn baptism and a leprechaun bar mitzvah.

"Friends", season 8, episode 8

Ross: Look, face it, my father is not going to pay for the build-in barbecue and believe me you can kiss you gazebo goodbye. Now I might be able to get you the new lawn.

"Friends", season 4, episode 23

(She laughs at the childhood memory. Phoebe smiles at being able to make her point.)

"Friends", season 1, episode 17

Chandler: Are you sure he's gonna be able to crack that code?

"Friends", season 2, episode 1

MONICA: You know what? I'm not gonna be able to enjoy this.

"Friends", season 2, episode 5

Monica: Well, if you hadn't meddled to start with, I wouldn't have had to go in there and meddle myself. Now, no matter how much we meddle, we will never be able to un-meddle the thing that you meddled up - in the first place!

"Friends", season 9, episode 23

RACH: Ohh, well, isn't that just lovely. That's something the two of you will be able to enjoy for a really, really, really, really, really long time.

"Friends", season 2, episode 7

Ross: Oh, man, I'm not going to be able to handle this. (pause) Now I know how my students feel at the end of each year. And why they act out by giving me such bad evaluations.

"Friends", season 10, episode 16

Rachel: All right. Let’s say I had slept with Mark. Would you have been able to forgive me?

"Friends", season 3, episode 16

Monica: All right look, if I take Chandler out of the running will you be able to focus?

"Friends", season 3, episode 9

Phoebe: Yeah but, Mischa is so interested in you, that Sergei and I haven’t been able to say two words to each other.

"Friends", season 3, episode 15

Monica: So, if you’re parents hadn’t got divorced, you’d be able to answer a question like a normal person?

"Friends", season 3, episode 17

Joey: I discovered I’m able to count all of my teeth using just my tongue.

"Friends", season 3, episode 13

Frank: See the thing is umm, we’re not able to y’know, uh, conceive.

"Friends", season 4, episode 11

Mrs. Geller: Oh honey, come on, have a sense of humour, you’ve never been able to laugh at yourself.

"Friends", season 4, episode 3

Ross: Hey, y'know, Mon, if things wrong out between you and Richard’s son, you’d be able to tell your kids, that you slept with their grandfather.

"Friends", season 4, episode 8

Paul: Well, ever-ev-... ever since she left me, um, I haven't been able to, uh, perform. (Monica takes a sip of her drink.) ...Sexually.

"Friends", season 1, episode 1

Ross: And you’re afraid you won’t be able to…fill his shoes.

"Friends", season 4, episode 11

Ross: Hey! I just spoke to your dad, and you know what? He seems to think we’ll be able to find a new place for the wedding.

"Friends", season 4, episode 23

Phoebe: Wow! See, and I didn't think you'd be able to come up with anything.

"Friends", season 5, episode 8

Chandler: No, I’m afraid I won’t be able to make love as well as him.

"Friends", season 4, episode 11

Kathy: Oh. Well uh, (to Chandler) you not being able to talk may make this easier. Listen umm… (She looks at the gang who are watching, they take the hint and leave them alone.) Listen I don’t wanna be someone who comes between two best friends. I just, I can’t stand seeing what this is doing to you guys, and I don’t wanna be the cause of that. So, I don’t think we can see each other anymore. I’m gonna go to my mom’s in Chicago, I’m gonna stay there for awhile. I think this could’ve be something really amazing, but y’know this is probably for the best. Y’know? I’m gonna miss you. Good-bye, Chandler.

"Friends", season 4, episode 8

Phoebe: Yeah. You won't be able to take it.

"Friends", season 5, episode 3

Phoebe: (Trying to get up.) Wait!! Where are you going?! What are you doing?! No!! Wait!! (Not able to get up.) God!! Why am I always pregnant when she does that?!

"Friends", season 4, episode 23

Rachel: Okay, that we may be able to do.

"Friends", season 5, episode 8

Joey: It was amazing! And not just for her... uh-uh. For me, too. It's like, all of a sudden, I'm blind. But all my other senses are heightened, y'know? It's like... I was able to appreciate it on another level.

"Friends", season 1, episode 24

Phoebe: Oh! Oh, I can't believe it! I mean I think it's great! For him. She might be able to do better.

"Friends", season 5, episode 14

Joey: Okay, some tricks of the trade. Now, I’ve never been able to cry as an actor, so if I’m in a scene where I have to cry, I cut a hole in my pocket, take a pair of tweezers, and just start pulling. Or ah, or, let’s say I wanna convey that I’ve just done something evil. That would be the basic ‘I have a fishhook in my eyebrow and I like it’ (Does it by raising one eyebrow, and showing off the pretend fishhook.) Okay, let’s say I’ve just gotten bad news, well all I do there is try and divide 232 by 13. (looks all confused) And that’s how it’s done. Great soap opera acting tonight everybody, class dismissed.

"Friends", season 3, episode 7

Chandler: Well I would've been happy because I would've be able to spend the rest of my life with the woman that I love. Or, you would've seen a Chandler shaped hole in that door. (Points at the door.)

"Friends", season 5, episode 15

Joey: Nothing! Well, I-I got this blinding pain in my stomach when I was lifting weights before, then I uh passed out and uh, haven’t been able to stand up since. But um, I don’t think it’s anything serious.

"Friends", season 6, episode 4

[Scene: Silvercup Studios, Joey has won the part of dying man and is now able to play the role he was injured for. Chandler is helping to carry him in.]

"Friends", season 6, episode 4

Joey: Yeah but we won’t be able to like get up in the middle of the night and have those long talks about our feelings and the future.

"Friends", season 6, episode 2

Sarah: Yeah. My Dad says if I spend as much time helping him clean apartments, as I do daydreaming about outer space, he’d be able to afford a trip to the Taj Mahal.

"Friends", season 3, episode 10

Joey: Nothing! Well, I-I got this blinding pain in my stomach when I was lifting weights before, then I uh passed out and uh, haven’t been able to stand up since. But um, I don’t think it’s anything serious.

"Friends", season 8, episode 19

MNCA: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait one minute. Wait a minute. I believe this will change your mind. [Reads from paper] In a mediocre play, Joseph Tribbiana was able to achieve brilliant new levels of... continued on page 153...[turns it] sucking.

"Friends", season 2, episode 10

Phoebe: But no, because a doctor won’t be able to help him, it’s just gonna y’know naturally pass through his system in like seven years.

"Friends", season 6, episode 5

Monica: Oh it’s so cute. I wonder what age it is when you stop being able to put both legs over your head.

"Friends", season 6, episode 5

Ross: Okay, maybe this is so hard, because there aren't 50 states. Let me tell you something, I have 49 states, and there are no more! I-I think, I should be able to eat something.

"Friends", season 7, episode 8

Ross: Soon he’ll be able to call you, that lady he knew who got fired.

"Friends", season 7, episode 5

Tag: And I never used to be able to just talk to girls in bars, but I got like 20 phone numbers last night.

"Friends", season 7, episode 5

Rachel: (still not quite able to look at him) Hi! I love you on that show! I watch you everyday! I mean, when you took out your own kidney to save your ex-wife even though she tired to kill you…

"Friends", season 6, episode 15

Chandler: Oh no, it's terrific, it's... it's... y'know, you deserve this, after all your years of struggling, you've finally been able to crack your way into showbusiness.

"Friends", season 1, episode 6

Fireman #1: So uh, you’re not gonna be able to live here for a while, you ladies have a place to stay?

"Friends", season 6, episode 18

Ross: Look, this is my home and I want to be able to come and go whenever I want!

"Friends", season 7, episode 2

Matt: You-you mentally make a flag on it and you say, "Okay show night, I’m just—I’ll never be able to get through this."

"Friends", season 7, episode 24

Phoebe: I can’t believe it! I did it! I rode a bike! I never thought I’d be able to do that! Thank you Ross.

"Friends", season 7, episode 9

David: Where the story was that I was anticipating that I would be around to hear my son’s first words spoken. But the scene was about that he wasn’t supposed to be able to speak and, uh for some reason when we started doing the show…

"Friends", season 7, episode 24

Joey: What are you talking about? Lots of things rhyme with Rachel. Bagel. Mail. Jail. Bail. Able. May-pole.

"Friends", season 4, episode 10

Monica: Well, are you going to be able to do this?

"Friends", season 8, episode 1

Matthew: It is when we’re able to crack each other up.

"Friends", season 7, episode 24

Mr. Geller: Sweetheart, we love you just as much as Ross! Now, I’m sorry about everything that happened and I’d probably never be able to make it up to you, but here’s a start. (He hands her a small box.)

"Friends", season 7, episode 13

Monica: (on phone, faking she's sick) I-I'm not gonna be able to make it into work today, I don't feel very good. (Joey makes a high throw and Monica has to catch it way over her head.) (Not sounding sick) Yes!! (Realizes what she just did.) (Sounding sick again) Wow! Uh, for a second there I thought I was really better, but I'm not. (Hangs up and keeps throwing the ball.)

"Friends", season 5, episode 21

Chandler: I’m gonna miss being able to afford food.

"Friends", season 8, episode 10

Rachel: I am! I am a woman who spent a lot of money on a dress and she wants to wear it, because soon she won’t be able to fit into it.

"Friends", season 8, episode 6

Monica: Is all this about you not being able to grow a moustache?

"Friends", season 9, episode 7

[Time Lapse: the crowd has left and only Mona, Monica, Joey, and Phoebe are still watching to see who will be able to move the other’s arm first. An event that has yet to happen.]

"Friends", season 8, episode 6

Dr. Green: I think I may be able to book The Plaza on short notice.

"Friends", season 8, episode 8

Rachel: Well you’re not gonna be able to keep doing this.

"Friends", season 8, episode 12

Ross: I dropped him off at Carol’s. (To Phoebe) Anyway, it turns out that I’m not going to be able to get those tickets though.

"Friends", season 8, episode 10

Rachel: You are not. You have never been able to break up with her.

"Friends", season 4, episode 15