How to Use unsustainable in a Sentence

unsustainable

adjective
  • But even most of them said the recent pace of job growth was unsustainable for long.
    — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • That is, the way the industry has been structured over the past few years was unsustainable.
    — Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But the laws could make Mr. Gill’s farm and many others like it unsustainable.
    — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
  • It’s been a rough skid after a decade of Peak TV spending that was unsustainable in the long run.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
  • That could push the cost of borrowing to painful highs and make the debt levels unsustainable.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The Biden White House is making the case that China's straddle on the war is unsustainable.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • On the flip side, campus leaders have long said the freeze is unsustainable.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The pressure to grow, to produce, to flood the market, and scale at breakneck speeds is unsustainable.
    — refinery29.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • But the bubble the lies create is unsustainable, said Union.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • In reality, the bust simply cleared out a raft of unsustainable enterprises—Pets.com, anyone?—and set the stage for what was to come.
    — Frank Rose, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
  • But the government argued that the low price was unsustainable and lifted the caps on Jan. 1.
    — NBC News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • At the time Muni was still running 68 bus lines, a plan that seemed unsustainable.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2020
  • That led to a lot of greed and unsustainable business models and a lot of leverage in crypto.
    — Corrie Driebusch, WSJ, 18 June 2022
  • But right now, the cost to the overall system is likely unsustainable.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Kluger added that the spike in cost of food and restaurant supplies made keeping it open unsustainable.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The concept worked for a time but was unsustainable, soldiers said.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Yet the work remains below a level of unsustainable pain that would force a change.
    — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2021
  • But the White House's willingness to go it alone may prove unsustainable.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2020
  • What a lot of my colleagues are saying is, ‘This is now unsustainable.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
  • What was once one of the hottest up and coming disruptive teams in the space, quickly grew to a size that was arguably unsustainable.
    — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • But experts — both in China and abroad — have warned that the approach is unsustainable.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • That bailout is unsustainable, though, so seniors should brace for more pain in coming years.
    — Saul Anuzis, Boston Herald, 15 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • This was unsustainable as there were hose lines on the ground and operating.
    — oregonlive, 14 May 2022
  • But that is a short-term, unsustainable solution that has been tried across the U.S. and around the globe – with major consequences.
    — Ali Mirchi, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The median cost of homes rose sharply coming out of the pandemic, and that rise was unsustainable.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
  • 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
  • Varsho is hitting homers on over 30 percent of his fly balls, which is unsustainable, but raw power can’t be faked.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 19 May 2025

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