How to Use unreasonable in a Sentence

unreasonable

adjective

• You are entitled to compensation for unreasonable delays.
• I told him that I wouldn't pay unless he sent me a replacement. Am I being unreasonable?
• In the age of Covid, the risks seemed unreasonable to me.
  — Deborah Lovich, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• And that the unreasonable terms of model X Lee’s left Collinwood with a food desert.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2022
• At 33, that’s not unreasonable and the Red Sox are among the teams in need of another lefthander in the bullpen.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• All the charges require proof that the force used to restrain Mr. Floyd was unreasonable.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
• The thought of a 3-4 or 4-3 finish to this season doesn’t seem all that unreasonable.
  — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2020
• Scoping all this out in three days seems a risky and unreasonable ask.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 2 June 2022
• But a little drawer space and a place to hang a few items does not seem unreasonable.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• First, this includes the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• The Irish poet wrote that progress depends on unreasonable men, who make the world adapt to them, not reasonable ones who adapt to the world.
  — Menachem Wecker, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• The first letter from the Russians was softer and didn’t have many unreasonable demands that the US couldn’t meet.
  — Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• It’s not unreasonable to think a fan would buy a product like that in the hopes of looking like a Kardashian.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 8 Apr. 2021
• Granted, she has been hurt in the past, but this request seems unreasonable.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• So, to have Sunday — one day of seven — be a day free of gunshots is not unreasonable.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• The fear of getting stuck is not unreasonable, said the travel risk experts.
  — Heather Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2021
• It’s not unreasonable to think our co-workers are engaging in some of the same kinds of judgment.
  — Jessica Grose, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
• Accept a job that’s unreasonable far away from the plaintiff’s home.
  — Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• In other instances, as in the St. Louis case, judges ruled the officers did not use unreasonable force.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• The area is about an hour-and-a-half drive from Nashville, allowing for a not-unreasonable commute.
  — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022
• One of them was, there was a company with a not unreasonable idea on how to make cheap solar cells called Solyndra.
  — Katherine Huggins, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• In that case, a lawyer could argue that the driver exposed other road users to an unreasonable risk.
  — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2024
• That doesn’t mean the Progressive Field deal is unreasonable, Humphreys said.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2021
• The excellence and the longevity are unreasonable to match or even approach.
  — Zach Harper, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
• And the Minnesota Department of Commerce said the surcharge's size is unreasonable and that Xcel should pay for part of it.
  — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
• For all three charges, prosecutors had to prove that Chauvin caused Floyd's death and that his use of force was unreasonable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• For all three charges, prosecutors had to prove that Chauvin caused Floyd’s death and that his use of force was unreasonable.
  — Amy Forliti, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• Problems in the equally famous class NP may take an unreasonable amount of time to solve, but their solutions are easy to check.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
• Most Canadians supported the move and opposed the weekslong blockades, but the Federal Court of Canada ruled last year that the use of the powers was unreasonable.
  — Amanda Coletta The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 7 Jan. 2025
• However, shippers have long argued that the state of the supply chain at the time made many of these charges unreasonable, as circumstances often out of their control prevented them from moving the containers.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 11 Feb 2025