How to Use unsanitary in a Sentence

unsanitary

adjective

• All of that is to say — the debate at Howard isn’t just about the school’s unsanitary dorms.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• Most of the men died because of unsanitary conditions, and the role of women was to clean the wounds, clean the clothes.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2021
• Her first store had a full list of crazy rules and fans thought her Topshop stores were unsanitary.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 21 May 2018
• The city’s jails are unsanitary and crowded even in normal times.
  — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• The concern is, of course, that using one’s own chopsticks to serve from a common dish is unsanitary.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• Viral videos of teenagers pulling unsanitary pranks at sushi belt restaurants in Japan have sparked outrage and caused stocks at one chain to slump.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
• The conditions in the home were unsanitary, and there was an extreme build-up of animal waste.
  — Mike Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2021
• Think of your home as a spaceship, and set up an airlock so nothing unsanitary gets into the sterile part of your home.
  — Sunset Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020
• Much of that waste seeped right into Europe’s wells and rivers, and in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Europeans brought their unsanitary practices across the Atlantic.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2021
• That is unsanitary and does nothing for his self-esteem.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2021
• Instead, they were crowded into unsanitary homes in the city’s Fifth Ward.
  — Jeff Andrews, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2021
• While another noted that the hack may be a bit unsanitary.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2024
• While another noted that the hack may be a bit unsanitary.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2024
• Often found in unsanitary conditions or from improper wound care, tetanus is a severe disease of the nerves that can cause the jaw to lock.
  — Taryn Chapman, Parents, 28 Sep. 2023
• Detainees and their advocates have complained about unsanitary conditions, poor food and said the jail is too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.
  — Jim Salter, Star Tribune, 12 May 2021
• If she were accused of cutting a client or being unsanitary, Texas might pull her license.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 8 July 2020
• Most are sleeping on the floor, and conditions are unsanitary, the officer said.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
• Related In Gaza, fresh water is unsanitary and the seas are polluted with raw sewage.
  — NBC News, 15 May 2018
• Most of the colonies are overcrowded and unsanitary, according to a 2021 report from the U.S. State Department.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 18 Nov. 2022
• The shameful Marchand licking act has to be as unsanitary as spitting on someone’s face.
  — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 5 May 2018
• The suit cites patients who have to take group showers and complain of living in unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• The safe consumption sites didn’t just offer an escape from death and the unsanitary and dangerous conditions on the street.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
• West, a former lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, said soldiers had also reached out to him about unsanitary conditions in camps and a lack of proper equipment.
  — James Barragán, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Jan. 2022
• That was the highest number since 2017, when the city was in the midst of a deadly hepatitis A outbreak that was linked to the unsanitary conditions of sidewalk encampments.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2021
• Then the city declared its conditions unsanitary and asked a judge to hand control to a receiver named Mark Adams to improve the property.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• They may be forced or coerced into to working 16 hours a day, seven days a week, in unsanitary conditions.
  — Arizona Republic, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
• And many of the asylum-seekers here still resort to bathing and washing clothes in the unsanitary Rio Grande, creating a breeding ground for infections and rashes.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 14 Feb. 2020
• Isolated on the Upper West Side, the community was set apart from the unsanitary neighborhoods of the downtown core.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2019
• Malnutrition is rife among the young, and diseases like polio, hepatitis, and cholera are flourishing in the crowded and unsanitary conditions.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
• When someone refuses an offer of housing or services, there is often a good reason: shelters can be dangerous and unsanitary.
  — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024