How to Use unsupportable in a Sentence

unsupportable

adjective

• The states argued that the zeroing out of the tax penalty actually imposed costs on them, but the court said those claims were illogical and unsupportable.
  — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• There is now a strange network of survivors, of the people bearing unsupportable sorrow as a result of gun violence, either under the color of law or not.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Aug. 2016
• Just be utterly unmoved by their (or anyone’s) unsupportable opinions, and keep doing your thing.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• In this view, old loyalties were not just anachronistic but morally unsupportable.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• Birds, for instance, have never evolved live birth, possibly because the energy cost of flying while pregnant is unsupportable.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2020
• Not adjusting Americans’ understanding of how far and wide the disease has likely spread, perhaps to as much as 20% of the population, was once fine but soon will become unsupportable.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• Unquestionably, the individual burden of medical costs in the U.S. can be unsupportable and, in the richest country in the world, should be unnecessary.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• Huge price declines from exciting, but unsupportable highs.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Leonard’s account, set down that afternoon, makes the loss immediate, unsupportable.
  — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
• Sooner or later, the absurdity of it all becomes unsupportable.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Aug. 2017
• But remember - those recent, ultra-low mortgage rates were unsupportable in even a 2% inflationary environment, much less in the current one.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• His claim was that when Congress eliminated the penalty for the individual mandate, the law became legally unsupportable.
  — James Moore, CNN, 23 June 2021
• Alberto Gallo of Algebris, an investment firm, estimates that yields would have to be at least 4-4.5% for several months before higher coupon payments would make debt unsupportable.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• Eventually the costs to make repairs becomes unsupportable.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• EFF lawyers wrote in Thursday's letter that Zillow's accusations were frivolous and unsupportable.
  — Brian Fung, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
• The lawsuit against Stine Seed Company is without merit and factually unsupportable.
  — Scott Berson, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
• The court rejected an emergency request by landlords and real-estate companies to clear the way for evictions after a federal judge in Washington ruled last month that the moratorium was legally unsupportable.
  — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 29 June 2021
• But the bill’s drafters are transparently exploiting the association with a historic bill fighting racial discrimination in order to smuggle in false equivalences and unsupportable claims.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 Feb. 2021
• Rather than viewing childcare as an unsupportable tax burden, investing in high-quality childcare should be seen as an essential public policy and a necessary part of stimulating our struggling economy.
  — CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
• To believe that a country can force wealth redistribution amid withering international competition is simply unsupportable and reckless.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024