How to Use unreachable in a Sentence

unreachable

adjective
  • The owner said in the initial call for help that the fire was unreachable with the lodge’s hose and was headed for the main building.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2020
  • But within days of the attack, the Tor page became unreachable, and the City of Atlanta did not pay the ransom.
    Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2018
  • The movie just floated there, to the indifference of its guardians and the silence of an unreachable world.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The great big world is really a series of small towns, and none of them is unreachable to a small-town girl with big dreams.
    Moira Vetter, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • The big parts of the field can become almost unreachable for lefties.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The screen was a facade, mocking me with an unreachable carrot on a stick.
    Aaron Peter, Wired, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The focus remains, for now, on the parents of 545 children who have been unreachable up to this point.
    Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
  • For decades, though, the moon’s darkest and most distant regions were thought to be unreachable.
    Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2024
  • Some of his staff had an idea of why Jacobs would be unreachable, but almost no one else in his life could know.
    Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Farrah says that self-care shouldn’t been seen as unreachable.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2019
  • Given how starters are used in the age of bullpen domination, the 3,000 plateau may be unreachable . . .
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2022
  • In Bangladesh, one team has procured a helicopter to make drops in places unreachable by road.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Earlier in the day, the city’s website was unreachable.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 June 2020
  • The rest of the bridge stretches forward, unreachable, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
    Indystar Staff, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Nicks shared that as the wildfires were raging, her niece, niece’s husband, and child had been staying in her house and were unreachable for a time.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Many local school districts are bursting at the seams while land costs for new schools is unreachable.
    WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The campground and springs are about 35 miles from the nearest paved road and may be unreachable in winter conditions.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • That regimen seems to take up the bulk of her time: The memo shows Sinema trains every day and is unreachable during that time.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Those who escaped the gunman were at the police station and unreachable.
    Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2018
  • The world sounded muffled, like it was tucked away behind a closed door, distant and unreachable.
    Your Fat Friend, SELF, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The part that wants to keep believing there’s something unreachable inside each of us.
    Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2021
  • At the time this post went live, the company’s website was also unreachable.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Her home is only 26 miles away from the settlement, but feels unreachable.
    Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The site of the Big Ten title game, after all, had been unreachable during Harbaugh’s first six seasons as coach.
    Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
  • By the time the city began a rebuild in earnest after the flood, HANO residents had been displaced to 36 states, and many were simply unreachable.
    Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 21 May 2017
  • As of Thursday, the site is still unreachable and can't seem to find a domain provider willing to host the hateful content it's been publishing.
    Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Even to the most unorganized, this goal isn't unreachable.
    Annie Burdick, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2022
  • The Hawaii toll could rise, though, as rescuers reach parts of the island that had been unreachable due to ongoing fires or obstructions.
    Audrey McAvoy, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • When an attacker sends a response over the wrong port, the server will send a response that the port is unreachable, which drains the global rate limit by one.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2020
  • It’s become the default goal in the majority of our step trackers and the (sometimes unreachable) finish line to our days.
    Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 18 Jan. 2024

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