How to Use unmanageable in a Sentence
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If that feels unmanageable, try to aim for at least once a month.
— Nicole Pyles, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023 -
The Ouai’s famous hair oil keeps even the most unmanageable hair slick and shiny.
— Anna Tingley, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023 -
But as the evening wore on, the crowd became unmanageable.
— Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022 -
This is how the debt grows over time and can make the monthly payment unmanageable.
— Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023 -
But the cost of treatment was unmanageable even for her.
— Johanna Deeksha, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2022 -
The seventh hole became so unmanageable that some likened it to putting on linoleum.
— Barry Wilner, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2018 -
Frizzy, unmanageable hair was just part of a list that went along with being thick, and having too much body hair.
— Neelanjana Banerjee, Teen Vogue, 5 June 2018 -
In fact, the storm is not causing an unmanageable amount of dust to fall on the rover itself—most of the dust is high in the atmosphere, blotting out the sky.
— Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2018 -
The knee injury has bugged Feldman all year, but in the last month has become unmanageable.
— Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 17 Aug. 2017 -
Brown said adding more people would make the events unmanageable.
— Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022 -
The offense was left with lengthy and unmanageable distances on third downs.
— Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022 -
In 2018, the cost became unmanageable and Chen went back to her mother for costumes.
— New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022 -
Most say the cost of living is at least somewhat unmanageable.
— Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna, Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2021 -
Students are often left with unmanageable levels of debt and jobs whose salaries are not enough to pay it off.
— USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024 -
The president and his top lawyer are a double dose of unmanageable.
— Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 4 May 2018 -
But each time, they were told to manage the symptoms at home and to come in only if the symptoms became unmanageable.
— Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2020 -
That penalty left the Lions facing an unmanageable third-and-25 and opened the door for the Packers' rally.
— Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 21 Sep. 2020 -
Add Delta to the mix and expenses begin to feel unmanageable.
— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021 -
On top of that, Black and Latino people were far more likely to say that their debt is unmanageable (39%) than white people (23%).
— Mckenna Moore, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2020 -
This creates a level of stress and work that is nearly unmanageable.
— Roxane Gay, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023 -
The crowd in Selma swelled to such an unmanageable size that day that state officials were forced at the last minute to cap the number of participants.
— Malina Saval, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023 -
Worldwide poverty, hunger and unmanageable debt are all on the upswing.
— New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021 -
How many hours would your partner have to work each week for your life together to become unmanageable?
— Jennifer Petriglieri, Time, 8 Oct. 2019 -
By the end of May, though, Selig had calculated that at the new prices, running Apollo would cost him an unmanageable $20 million a year.
— Casey Newton, The Verge, 13 June 2023 -
The data also shows the areas least exposed to unmanageable climate shocks, at least so far.
— Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022 -
When workloads are unmanageable, people start to question the point of their efforts.
— Jennifer Moss, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024 -
And that goes from being manageable and unmanageable, but that’s starting to lift.
— Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2023 -
And that goes from being manageable and unmanageable, but that's starting to lift.
— Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2023 -
Much of his focus will be on domestic politics — trying to shore up the British economy and address people’s sense that everyday costs have become unmanageable.
— Karla Adam, Washington Post, 4 July 2024 -
Rising inflation, increasing student debt and unmanageable housing and rent prices are some indicators of why young people have chosen to move back in with their parents.
— Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 4 June 2024
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