Examples of “stable” in a Sentence

noun A building where horses or other animals are kept and cared for.

• She mucked out the stable before feeding the horses.
• The old stable at the end of the farm now stores hay and tools.
• A friendly pony poked its head out of the stable door.

noun All the racehorses, or the people, belonging to one owner, trainer, or organization.

• The trainer's stable includes several past Grand National winners.
• Several horses from the same stable ran in the big race on Saturday.
• She joined a famous racing stable as a junior rider.

adj Steady, firmly established, and not likely to change suddenly.

• The patient's condition is now stable.
• They wanted a stable home for their children.
• Keep the ladder stable by asking someone to hold it while you climb.

adj Of software: tested and reliable, as opposed to an experimental or beta version.

• We only deploy the stable release to production.
• Beta testers found bugs, but the stable version of the app runs smoothly.
• I would wait for the stable release before updating my work computer.