Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: That said, there are some technologies available today that make a notebook dispensable.

Used with adjective complement

• consider: Some places were considered dispensable, while others were regarded as indispensable to the nation-building drive.

Modifying Another Word

• entirely: Pro-actively, the East Timorese have been an inconvenient and entirely dispensable commodity for the last twenty five years.

• economically: Yugoslavia was economically dispensable neither a rich market nor a strategic oilfield.

• easily: The English ladies were more easily dispensable Henry was a tyrant and a despot.

Modifies a noun

• acid: These are known as non-essential or dispensable amino acids.