How to Use unpalatable in a Sentence

unpalatable

adjective

• The idea of a wolf in the neighborhood might be unpalatable to some folks.
  — Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2021
• The first was the unknown, the second — for some, at least — was the unpalatable.
  — Philip Buckingham, The Athletic, 20 Nov. 2024
• Birds tend to find out the hard way which insects are unpalatable, by trial and error.
  — Tim Vernimmen, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2019
• Voters are left to choose the least bad of two unpalatable candidates.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 May 2024
• The Ukraine war has made the thought of playing for oligarchs unpalatable.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2022
• One alternative is to plant something unpalatable to deer around the base to help hide the space.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
• And the art, while covering a wide range of styles, never veers into the unpalatable.
  — Andrew A. Smith Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
• There is no obvious way out Most of the options for a deal are unpalatable to one or more of the parties.
  — Allison McCulloch, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• The team hypothesized that biliverdin might make the lizards unpalatable to predators, but birds aren’t deterred by the stuff.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 May 2018
• If that option is unpalatable, could USC still be more proactive?
  — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 30 Nov. 2017
• Perhaps the cave visitors discarded the unpalatable stuff, fed it to livestock or cooked it in a stew.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
• But the prospect of making some single mothers worse off proved too unpalatable for lawmakers to move forward with the idea.
  — Rachel Cohen, Vox, 26 Nov. 2024
• Such a price is probably unpalatable to plenty of Rockets fans.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 5 May 2023
• He is no longer being asked to make unpalatable concessions of land Ukraine has lost thousands in the defense of.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
• That means more deals could be in store, even with many biotech stocks trading at bubble valuations that are unpalatable to buyers.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
• This approach remains a long shot but the alternatives range from unpalatable to unattractive.
  — Ali Vaez, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
• That was unpalatable to Netanyahu’s allies on the religious right.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
• Others find the topic unpalatable.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
• Otherwise, consumers might not buy them because the tart, acidic berry in its natural form is unpalatable to most people.
  — Alex Gailey, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
• But Zelensky — who has come to be seen a hero in Ukraine and beyond — has the stature to sell an unpalatable agreement.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• This is unpalatable but something a President Biden would have to manage.
  — Jerry Brown, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Without a means of steering the station, that left the unpalatable option of an uncontrolled reentry.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2018
• Now Larry has to deal with Maria Sofia in an entirely new but equally unpalatable way.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2024
• Baylor has struggled this season which makes selling Grimes, a first-time head coach, as Auburn’s next guy a bit unpalatable.
  — John Talty | [email protected], al, 31 Oct. 2022
• One of the secrets of Netanyahu’s success is that the alternatives to him are unpalatable.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 20 July 2019
• Fortunately for the bats, fruits with a detectable high level of ethanol are deemed unpalatable and usually avoided.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2025
• For many students, the idea of opening the floodgates to North Koreans is almost as unpalatable as war.
  — Time, 25 Apr. 2018
• Livestock not native to the desert have grazed and trampled the plants tortoises like to eat, spreading unpalatable nonnative grasses in their wake.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
• Unfortunately, the rebuild has slogged, moving at a pace unpalatable to both Foyt and Daly.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2017
• Such a path is likely to be unpalatable to most Wagner fighters, who are intensely loyal to Prigozhin.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 26 June 2023