How to Use unsustainable in a Sentence

unsustainable

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• That is, the way the industry has been structured over the past few years was unsustainable.
  — Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• But the bubble the lies create is unsustainable, said Union.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• But right now, the cost to the overall system is likely unsustainable.
  — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2024
• The concept worked for a time but was unsustainable, soldiers said.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• What a lot of my colleagues are saying is, ‘This is now unsustainable.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
• But if mead is to continue to grow as an industry, what’s to stop it from taking on some of the unsustainable traits of beer?
  — Tony Rehagen, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• Redzepi said that he’s come to believe that the fine-dining model is unsustainable.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 10 Jan. 2023
• Decades of drought — made worse by climate change — and unsustainable use have placed the Colorado River in peril.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• But the party has the upper hand, thanks to a Biden failure at the border that may, finally, be unsustainable.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
• In short, Chutkan’s order is unsustainable and shouldn’t stand.
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
• About twins who love each other deeply, but in a way that is entirely unsustainable.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2023
• The takeaway, yet again: This career might be unsustainable.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2023
• But in what has become a microcosm of their season, that fast start was unsustainable.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
• Those numbers are unsustainable and that's with Title 42 in place.
  — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2022
• John Dale pointed to the short duration of many writing jobs these days as unsustainable for anyone who wants to make a living.
  — William Earl, Variety, 2 May 2023
• The Congressional Budget Office has long opined that growth of the nation’s debt is on an unsustainable path.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
• Such growth is often unsustainable and could lead to a significant drop when the bubble bursts.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• Experts say the approach is unsustainable over the long-term and that China has no exit strategy.
  — Nick Perry, ajc, 5 Dec. 2022
• That’s awfully reminiscent of the dot-com boom in the 1990s, when internet stocks surged to unsustainable heights.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
• The highlands of Africa, in Kenya and Ethiopia, are now succumbing to malaria because of a shift in the low temperatures that once made the area unsustainable for mosquitoes.
  — Fox News, 16 Jan. 2023
• Justin Herbert’s load is unsustainable without a run game.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Now arrives the hangover as federal largesse ebbs and tax revenue falls from unsustainable heights.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 June 2023
• But if the post-pandemic boom in content spend continues to prove unsustainable, the number of companies with the resources to do so is sure to keep shrinking.
  — Kaare Eriksen, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
• Amid the personal and industry turmoil, Thorn faced a choice: maintain the status quo, which was unsustainable; or sell the company, which didn’t sit right.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• When cheap, off-the-shelf drones fly in large numbers, such cost disparity becomes ridiculous and unsustainable.
  — Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
• Both regional actors and Western diplomats and analysts have long argued that the status quo in Gaza and the West Bank is unsustainable.
  — Emma Beals and Peter Salisbury, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2023
• The think tank warned in an October report that much of sub-Saharan Africa will be unsustainable by mid-century.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2022
• But of course, if the species is disappearing from the environment in unsustainable numbers, that will one day be problem for the industry too.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• The spread of the hyper-contagious Omicron variant last year forced other countries to accept that the societal costs of purging the virus had grown unsustainable.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2023
• Certainly the rejection of those values is something that was talked about more in the last years of my teaching, because certain things were starting to seem so unsustainable.
  — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024