How to Use sustainable in a Sentence

sustainable

adjective

• But the debate is over how sustainable its growth will be in the long run.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
• There might be a more sustainable way of doing it in the sense of having a small team.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2020
• This is where the quest for sustainable change must begin.
  — Munachim Amah, CNN, 3 Nov. 2017
• Now's the time to see how sustainable that power can be.
  — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• But the truth is that only sustainable growth will lift all boats.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 15 Dec. 2019
• Instead the plan is for planes and ships to run on sustainable fuels.
  — WIRED, 6 Jan. 2023
• The model was one of the first to try to make public pensions sustainable.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• Looking for a gift that's sustainable and gives back to a good cause?
  — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
• But the idea wasn’t as sustainable as the company thought.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 30 Sep. 2021
• The challenge is finding ways of putting the region on a more sustainable course.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2019
• So what the Heat have to decide is whether this is sustainable.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• And even these might not be that sustainable after all.
  — Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg.com, 22 July 2015
• The second is that the terms are too generous to be sustainable.
  — The Economist, 27 July 2019
• Burberry is here to show the world that high fashion can be sustainable too.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2020
• The method is also not sustainable for large-scale use.
  — Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
• The next step is for this to become a sustainable business model for more than just the lucky few.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
• With these goals the Ford site can be both livable and sustainable.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 1 June 2017
• With the economy ground to a halt, those plans are not sustainable.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• One way to be sustainable in the garden is to reduce water use.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2021
• What can be done to have a more sustainable impact on village health?
  — Lakshmi Ramachandran, STAT, 2 May 2020
• Nevertheless, to be sustainable is to do less to it and get more out of it.
  — Lynlee Austell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2022
• That was a gift, not something to suggest that kind of play was sustainable.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• Fishing of those species is not banned, but any trade now must be sustainable.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2019
• That made for an easy and fair question to ask: Is that sustainable?
  — Fletcher Page, Cincinnati.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• Once on the trail, the hiking is rhythmic, and for most, sustainable for many hours.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2020
• In her eyes, the business of tunnel boring needs to get faster and more sustainable.
  — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
• Few things are as sustainable as growing your own food.
  — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 6 Sep. 2022
• This means the export growth momentum may not be sustainable in the long-run.
  — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 15 Nov. 2020
• Adding more sustainable, or slow fashion, is part of that.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2021
• Because there are outcomes of this process that are in some sense not sustainable, right?
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024