How to Use unsuited in a Sentence

unsuited

adjective
  • Here was a man utterly unsuited to the challenge, with no idea what to do.
    Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Isn’t the tardiness of Obama’s support for you a red flag that suggests you are deeply unsuited for the toughest job on earth?
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Oct. 2020
  • In some cases, the machines are unsuited to steep terrain, or to certain grape-growing styles.
    Ian Lovett, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2021
  • And football fans will say: Better equipment will solve the problem of body parts, particularly the one in the skull’s brain pan, that are unsuited to the game.
    George Will, National Review, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The same attributes that propel them to power leave them wholly unsuited to wielding it.
    The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Mr Strange would have made a serviceable senator, but his sunny calm proved unsuited to the times.
    The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • And the president has outsourced key Mideast tasks to Kushner, who has proven to be woefully unsuited and in way over his head.
    Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Those who believe the people of the Middle East unsuited to democracy may even take satisfaction their bias has been borne out by events.
    Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The curbs along the side of the tunnel were unfinished and quite bumpy, and the tunnel featured curves at the beginning and at the end that seemed unsuited for the kinds of 100+ mph travel that Elon Musk has promised in subsequent tunnels.
    Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2018
  • But that hasn’t stopped criticism of Zelensky as a jester-turned-king wholly unsuited to the situation at hand.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The flip side of that argument was that D.C. was a fiscal basket case, wholly unsuited to be a state of its own without huge federal subsidies.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Di Francesco has brought a very different style of play to Sampdoria, and his star forward seems unsuited to the intense pressing system that the ex-Roma coach demands.
    SI.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • This material was clever, but oddly unsuited to the moment.
    Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The kind of rousing slogans that helped hype the troops before battle were completely unsuited to legislative debate.
    Ruth Scurr, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • The fact that Nora and Hae Sung are unsuited to each other contradicts Cohen’s passionate regret.
    Armond White, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The ascenders and descenders are consequently short; in her view that gives the font a clinical, businesslike air unsuited to fiction.
    The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The boundary layer also makes them unsuited for desert climates, where the insulation puts them at risk of daytime overheating.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The upcoming pattern promises to bring the same to a region that’s uniquely unsuited to handle such intense temperatures.
    Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Opponents say Trump is uniquely unsuited to uniting the country in times of uncertainty.
    Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Since 2003, the U.S. has increasingly fought insurgent forces that don't have tanks, and tanks are unsuited to counter-insurgency operations like those in Afghanistan.
    Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The phonics method of converting each letter to a particular sound is totally unsuited to the English language.
    Marion Blank, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2023
  • In it, Connell’s alter ego is the rather feckless Melvin Isaacs, obviously unsuited to the military’s rigidity.
    Gemma Sieff, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • Johnson has gone on record about his longtime obsession with the character, yet, in a paradox more interesting than the movie itself, he's distinctly unsuited for the role, despite his build.
    Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Others had spouses who were ill or temperamentally unsuited to the task.
    Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News, 1 June 2017
  • Disparate impact metrics, which are commonly used in U.S. labor law, are completely unsuited to health care.
    Carol McCall, STAT, 12 Aug. 2021
  • On the other hand, these vehicles were amateurish and unsuited for modern warfare.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Most are generally unsuited to the environments in which they will be grown, and require the kind of coddling that produces greater environmental and financial costs.
    Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Charles is such a classic example of this—an entitled, self-pitying man who was entirely unsuited to the kind of relationship that Diana demanded.
    Rachel Burchfield, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Chaudrey Zawar Hussein always seemed comically unsuited to the vehicle, a tall man with steel-gray hair, never smiling.
    Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Schulz carried his campaign-trail attacks on Trump into the debate, portraying him as unpredictable, insulting and unsuited to handling the North Korean crisis.
    Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 4 Sep. 2017

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