How to Use indefensible in a Sentence

indefensible

adjective

• The city is in an indefensible location.
• The company adopted an indefensible position on the issue.
• His behavior is ethically indefensible.
• To blow a 26-point lead against the worst team in the league is indefensible in more ways than one.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
• The Democrats did this on purpose to try to muddy the waters, and to defend the indefensible.
  — Fox News, 15 July 2018
• For the gate to come down in an instant is indefensible.
  — Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• If the ball is all the way over on one hash, there are spread formations that can create indefensible amounts of space on the wide side of the field.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 11 July 2018
• Even more frustrating is that The White House has already found a way to spin the indefensible.
  — Michael Arceneaux, Essence.com, 26 July 2017
• The House proposal is a mixture of the good, the dubious, and the indefensible.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• With her blond pixie cut, big blue eyes and slight build, Jensen just about pulls off the indefensible maiden look.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Aug. 2021
• One-on-one indefensible throws, where only one guy can get to it.
  — Eric Hansen, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2020
• This is an indefensible shred of arrogance and greed on the part of the NFL that has continued unchecked for at least two decades, maybe three.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• Tens of millions of kids were hurt by the Dems’ indefensible school closures.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• And this is one of the things that was such an indefensible step by the Trump administration.
  — NBC News, 22 Aug. 2021
• Herein lies the challenge U of L has faced since the outset of this ugly case: how to defend the indefensible?
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2017
• Rapists and enslavers are indefensible, regardless of time, and this makes Thomas Jefferson one of the worst men of his.
  — Marlene L. Daut, Essence, 24 Feb. 2022
• This is a red flag that cop’s actions were indefensible.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• On the face of it, your friend’s behavior is selfish and indefensible.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
• From time to time there are scenes that make caring about sports feel indefensible, and Monday provided one of them.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Aug. 2022
• Defending the indefensible is part of the job of working for Trump, of course, and it isn’t restricted to trade policy.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 4 June 2019
• But having assistant coaches leave jobs to go with you then leave them out to dry is indefensible.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2018
• The efforts of the Trump legal team were often indefensible.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
• Early in the day on June 30, staff on scene determined that most homes in Yarnell were indefensible with available resources.
  — Kalee Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2013
• The idea that the system cannot function without consensus is by no means an indefensible claim.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
• Just as Helms’s actions have not changed in the time since, neither has Pletka’s defense of her indefensible mentor.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2020
• And the effort by so many in the media, driven by their hatred of Trump, to defend the indefensible is disheartening.
  — Gary Abernathy, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2018
• Here is a show that will no doubt test how Murphy's own brand of camp meshes with a premise that may tickle some as indulging in the most indefensible aspects of gay male culture.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Esquire, 23 May 2016
• But dig a little deeper and the numbers create an indefensible case for Kitchens to return.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2019
• As countless experts have already pointed out, eliminating the tax on tips is indefensible as a matter of theory; tips are clearly income, as the law defines the term, and just as clearly income in an economic sense.
  — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• These cases are a mix of legally indefensible outcomes that have already been imposed on the entire nation and potentially disastrous lower-court decisions that will most likely be reversed by the current Supreme Court.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 13 May 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024