Verb (used without object) : The military situation is improving. ,None of the younger violinists have been able to improve on his interpretation of that work.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : He took vitamins to improve his health. ,He improved the stopover by seeing a client with offices there.    From Dictionary.com. 

Oly thing that seems to be improvable is the lection management.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine] Reference

Some of Verona society cast improvable aspersions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doge’s Gold Statue « A Fly in Amber] Reference

Bear constantly in mind that you are endlessly improvable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jericho Road] Reference

I frankly don't think a Drake's Coffee Cake is improvable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ring Dings, From the Heart] Reference

Women are improvable; men are no, although their behavior is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The S.C.U.M. Manifesto] Reference

Let succuba succumb, the improvable his wealth made possible!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

And I started crying when he said it's improvable but not fixable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2002] Reference

LIN (voice-over): It was an improvable journey, he said so himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2006] Reference

Ireland; and these again are more improvable than, the Scotish wastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829] Reference

Why slog when everything about us is, if not improvable, one disposable fact?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Laermer: The Five Year -- Oh Forget It Already] Reference

Think smart phones, distributed networks, intraoperability and locally improvable.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Kenagy: Ensuring Investment in Healthcare Information Technology Does Not Flatline] Reference

They understood that we are all imperfect, but society is, nonetheless, improvable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President At Millennium Lecture] Reference

There is no way that calling Obama's claim to be an improvable fairy tale is racial.    From Wordnik.com.  [It is the Obama Campaign Who Has Been Playing the Race Card All Along] Reference

He has no faiths, except for an impersonal belief that he and his lot are indefinitely improvable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case Of Conscience]

Unlike the eminently improvable Amelia, or the anxious and ambitious type that includes Ellen of The Wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment] Reference

It's not the writing that slows me down; it's the planning and conceptual work, and that should be improvable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-07] Reference

Yet, with all these favourable appearances, no conceding moment to be found, no improvable tenderness to be raised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

The intention is not to touch upon every improvable situation, every possible disease, or every water scheme design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

They also create their own set of equally improvable other-worldly rewards and punishments associated with the faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [faith. | Mind on Fire] Reference

We engage in inquiry, Dewey thought, as part of a struggle with an objectively precarious but improvable environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dewey's Political Philosophy] Reference

This, which was mentioned, I suppose, to show the improvable character of the land, would have given another some pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles of the Canongate] Reference

I think my inclination would be the same for my early posts, even though some of them I already see as being improvable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Blog Archives: To Cull or Not to Cull? | Write to Done] Reference

Why-oh-why are these parents so irresponsibly instilling in their daughters the idea that their appearance is improvable?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verena von Pfetten: Kids Get Colored: Highlights Go To New Lows] Reference

While not very efficient, they are sufficient and improvable, a great example of things not having to be perfect to be enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabett Run] Reference

It does have mild tranquilizing properties, and perhaps a relaxed feeling is the basis for this otherwise improvable assertion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Food For Valentine's Day: Mexican Native Aphrodisiacs] Reference

Tho 'this wretched Island is the most improvable, and the least improved Part of the habitable Earth, we drive away from us our.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference

In other words, technology was not the solution; technology was a flexible, improvable tool that was used to accelerate the solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Kenagy: Ensuring Investment in Healthcare Information Technology Does Not Flatline] Reference

Think smart phones, portability, distributed networks, intraoperability, personal substitutability of programs and locally improvable.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Kenagy: An Obama Health Care Reform Scorecard] Reference

Instead, problem-solve the system when it fails by creating safe, testable, viable and improvable experiments as part of every day work.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Kenagy: My Healthcare Reform Fear - It's Not Who Pays, It's What We Get] Reference

And the thing that makes it improvable is there are still too many who don't, or there are still people who find folks standing in the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President At Dnc Dinner A] Reference

Expect it to be much more improvable or even being erroneous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference

I should apprehend this bog to be among the most improvable in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779] Reference

'You came out with that valuable improvable freehold, the Terrace, I suppose?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference

This power is, perhaps, given by nature, but is doubtless improvable, if not acquirable, by art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference

That time which we really improve, or which is improvable, is neither past, present, nor future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

We had an optimism that man was improvable, he could do it himself, and this pervaded our household.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference