How to Use unworkable in a Sentence
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Yet that path now looks unworkable.
—Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
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This combo is unworkable in your lap, but works just fine on a tabletop.
—Christopher Null, WIRED, 21 July 2017
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But these options have been set aside as unworkable, the people said.
—Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
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Elliott said that idea proved unworkable and has been abandoned.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
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The way we are told to search for love is fairly inhumane and unworkable.
—Jessica Goodman, ELLE, 11 Feb. 2022
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And even though all those around them find the idea strange and unworkable, the Bottoms give it a shot.
—Punch Shaw, star-telegram, 12 Jan. 2018
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But if yours leak butter or the dough becomes sticky and unworkable, do not despair.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2020
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Maybe the insurance costs would make that unworkable.
—Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
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Its debt proved unworkable due to disputes with various lenders.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 24 July 2024
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Opponents fear the law would lead to suppression of free speech and will prove unworkable.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2018
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The city had intended to move it across the street, but that location proved unworkable.
—David Ibata, ajc, 15 Jan. 2020
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But that level of pay can still be unworkable for lower-income households.
—Renata Daou, Hartford Courant, 16 Dec. 2024
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But that level of pay can still be unworkable for lower-income households.
—Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
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However, such a coalition would be at best unwieldy and at worst unworkable.
—Sheri Berman, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
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The bread debacle can seem like a straw man designed to make the whole system look pointless and unworkable.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
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But elder-law attorneys said the concept was flawed and unworkable.
—Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2019
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Opponents said the tax is unworkable and could drive away wealthy people who already pay a large share of state taxes.
—Jimmy Vielkind, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
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Trump has for weeks sought to paint Biden’s climate policies as too aggressive and unworkable.
—Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2020
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But turning that into a column of the same number of cards—with no hover state—is simply unworkable.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
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Working on the former is hard enough, and linking the two will lead to unworkable policies based on wishful thinking.
—Katharine H.s. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2017
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This second failure of Trumpcare is proof positive that the core of the bill is unworkable.
—Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 18 July 2017
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Some of your plans could prove a bit wishful and unworkable, so reach out to friends and co-workers for their realistic input.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 1 July 2019
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There’s a water closet in the back of the apartment with two stairs up to the toilet, which is a little strange, but hardly unworkable.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 21 Jan. 2025
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Drescher quickly shot it down as unworkable, but the back-and-forth exposed a rift between the guild and many of its most famous members.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
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Refugee and human-rights groups called the plan inhumane, unworkable and a waste of taxpayers’ money.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Apr. 2022
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If anything is struck out or deemed unworkable, Democrats will need to rewrite their legislation, which could take time.
—Lauren Fox and Ella Nilsen, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
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In office, Scott bashed the law as unworkable and unaffordable.
—Gray Rohrer, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 July 2017
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Some of the demands on the table are frankly unworkable, and Democrats aren’t exactly in the mood to cede their path, either.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
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One of his plans passed in 2006, but it was repealed by the City Council as unworkable.
—Matt Campbell, kansascity, 7 June 2018
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Citizens have opted for politicians that claim to improve their lives through false and unworkable laws that in the end will leave them in poverty and despair.
—Cincinnati.com, 9 Aug. 2017
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