How to Use unsustainable in a Sentence

unsustainable

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• But even most of them said the recent pace of job growth was unsustainable for long.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• That is, the way the industry has been structured over the past few years was unsustainable.
  — Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• That could push the cost of borrowing to painful highs and make the debt levels unsustainable.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• The Biden White House is making the case that China's straddle on the war is unsustainable.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• On the flip side, campus leaders have long said the freeze is unsustainable.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2022
• But the bubble the lies create is unsustainable, said Union.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• That led to a lot of greed and unsustainable business models and a lot of leverage in crypto.
  — Corrie Driebusch, WSJ, 18 June 2022
• But right now, the cost to the overall system is likely unsustainable.
  — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2024
• The concept worked for a time but was unsustainable, soldiers said.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• What a lot of my colleagues are saying is, ‘This is now unsustainable.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
• But if mead is to continue to grow as an industry, what’s to stop it from taking on some of the unsustainable traits of beer?
  — Tony Rehagen, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• Redzepi said that he’s come to believe that the fine-dining model is unsustainable.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 10 Jan. 2023
• Decades of drought — made worse by climate change — and unsustainable use have placed the Colorado River in peril.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• This was unsustainable as there were hose lines on the ground and operating.
  — oregonlive, 14 May 2022
• But the party has the upper hand, thanks to a Biden failure at the border that may, finally, be unsustainable.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
• Child poverty is already at a level that is, to me, should be unsustainable.
  — NBC News, 8 May 2022
• The state budget the Governor signed in June is unsustainable.
  — Tom Lackey, Orange County Register, 9 July 2024
• The change amounts to about four or five hours of driving a day, commuters say, an unsustainable burden on top of a normal eight-hour workday.
  — Angus M. Thuermer Jr., Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2024
• In short, Chutkan’s order is unsustainable and shouldn’t stand.
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
• About twins who love each other deeply, but in a way that is entirely unsustainable.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2023
• Jules Koundé has stayed put at Sevilla, but continuing there is unsustainable for him and the club.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• But even some economists who bemoaned those sluggish gains at the time say the current rate of wage growth is unsustainable.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 2 June 2022
• Folks who are not able to afford basic needs often take out loans, run up charges on their credit card in a way that's unsustainable.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2022
• The takeaway, yet again: This career might be unsustainable.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2023
• The hotels were closed to overnight stays on Aug. 29 because no water was being pumped into the South or North rims of the canyon and water fell to unsustainable levels.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2024
• But in what has become a microcosm of their season, that fast start was unsustainable.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
• Those numbers are unsustainable and that's with Title 42 in place.
  — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2022
• The Yuz was just one of hundreds of museums to open in China over the last decade, a corollary of sorts to the country’s rapid (and some say unsustainable) real estate boom.
  — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• The bottom line: The rapid job-to-job movement in recent years was unsustainable as companies were constantly training new workers.
  — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
• Translation: artists generating works to feed a market that churns through them, with artworks flipped at auction and prices pushed up to unsustainable levels.
  — Kate Dwyer, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024