How to Use unpublishable in a Sentence

unpublishable

adjective

• The rest, like his metaphor for a silky pinot, is unpublishable.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• The playwright has not strained herself over the lyrics, pretty much all unpublishable.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• Thin-skinned and foul-mouthed, with grudges against everyone, the bereaved are a dirty dozen of unpublishable grievance.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 May 2018
• This was a fair point, though such a mention would have rendered Paustovsky’s work unpublishable and perhaps meant his own trip to the Gulag.
  — Sophie Pinkham, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• The Rainbow was banned, Women in Love was for years unpublishable, his paintings were seized (too much pubic hair), his poems censored.
  — Lara Feigel, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2021
• Leonard Woolf tried to find a publisher for the apparently unpublishable novel, the couple having recognized that their own Hogarth Press wasn’t up to it.
  — James Campbell, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• Scads of others called me vile, unpublishable names on my personal Facebook and Instagram accounts.
  — Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, 5 July 2019
• Twain, in turn, had an obscene, unpublishable squib called 1601 intended for private circulation.
  — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• There is widespread concern that, because these kinds of studies can't be preregistered, this kind of research would become denigrated or even unpublishable, were registration to become the norm.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2014

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