How to Use unreasonable in a Sentence

unreasonable

adjective

• You are entitled to compensation for unreasonable delays.
• I told him that I wouldn't pay unless he sent me a replacement. Am I being unreasonable?
• At 33, that’s not unreasonable and the Red Sox are among the teams in need of another lefthander in the bullpen.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• The Irish poet wrote that progress depends on unreasonable men, who make the world adapt to them, not reasonable ones who adapt to the world.
  — Menachem Wecker, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• So, to have Sunday — one day of seven — be a day free of gunshots is not unreasonable.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• One of them was, there was a company with a not unreasonable idea on how to make cheap solar cells called Solyndra.
  — Katherine Huggins, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• Problems in the equally famous class NP may take an unreasonable amount of time to solve, but their solutions are easy to check.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
• It’s not unreasonable for Swanson’s price tag to go up after the other mega deals for shortstops.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
• In Maryland, if an unreasonable amount of force is used, people still can claim self-defense to lessen the charges, just not to absolve themselves, O’Neill said.
  — Jessica Ander, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• The moderates, in turn, gained assurances that the concessions to the hard-liners weren’t unreasonable and wouldn’t be abused.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2023
• That’s not unreasonable, given the NASA contracts on their books worth $262 million.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 16 Sep. 2022
• On that scale, noncompete agreements are unreasonable restraints on the right to earn a living.
  — WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
• Candidates say this has forced deputies to work unreasonable amounts of overtime.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• In short, don’t resign yourself to lukewarm soup or cold spaghetti for fear of being unreasonable—but do expect to wait a beat for the chef to remake it.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 2024
• It’s not unreasonable to think Davis could be back on the court sometime this month, helping give the Lakers a little clarity as the trade deadline looms.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• The lawsuit argued the use of the dogs violated students’ Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• The lawsuit against the city and the responding officers said the use of force against Whitfield was unreasonable, excessive and deadly.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 20 July 2022
• With that in mind, expecting a Guardians 4 story featuring the same team would be unreasonable.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 June 2022
• Still, that price is plain unreasonable for many; at $999, Samsung’s smaller Galaxy Z Flip 4 is still the more practical choice.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
• That’s another thing that’s so unreasonable of us as a country—to expect Black women to be so strong and so resilient, but not to refill us at all.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2024
• In July, the agency published a draft version of a new assessment, which found that 52 of 54 uses of TCE present an unreasonable risk to human health.
  — Neil Bedi, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2022
• But the methods of the study were swiftly questioned by experts, who noted the conclusions may be unreasonable based on the statistics used.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 6 Oct. 2022
• This is not unreasonable, as studies have shown that promotions are less likely for those who work outside the office.
  — Shane Spraggs, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• The 2016 law required the EPA to evaluate chemicals and put in place protections against unreasonable risks.
  — Matthew Daly, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
• The companies say the union hasn't responded to their latest offers and have called union demands unreasonable.
  — Tom Krisher and David Koenig The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2023
• But a reasonable bond amount for someone with money could be unreasonable for someone who is poor.
  — Kelan Lyons, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2022
• These bossists believe that for the past decade or so, a booming tech industry and a talent shortage forced many C.E.O.s to make unreasonable concessions.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• When pressed about the possibility of an even higher minimum wage of $25 per hour, Jassy said that would be unreasonable.
  — Colin Lodewick, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2022
• The lawsuit will claim that during the arrest, the child’s rights were violated under the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Epic views the mandate as unfair and unlawful under statutes that bar unreasonable restraints on trade.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024