How to Use untouchable in a Sentence

untouchable

1 of 2 adjective

• The team's record was untouchable.
• The mayor believed that he was untouchable and not subject to the same laws as the rest of us.
• The word Dalit translates to broken and is the caste Brahmins deem untouchable.
  — Anjali Enjeti, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Dec. 2022
• Sykes was nearly untouchable in the first half, posting 13 points on four-of-six shooting.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2022
• Below are the untouchable Christmas film classics that have few equals this time of year.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 Dec. 2021
• Ye himself felt untouchable even as the outrage grew this month.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
• The man who once looked untouchable now retires in third place on the list of men’s major championships.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• Many observers on both left and right had assumed that Ms. Gay was untouchable.
  — Christopher F. Rufo, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
• The victory made Nadal the first man to reach a mark that looked untouchable to so many for most of tennis history.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
• Bright pink against only the bluest of seas is an untouchable combo for the summer season.
  — ELLE, 5 Aug. 2022
• For me, Bam Adebayo is only untouchable on this roster, due to the fact the Heat would have no defenders at the four and five – Alt.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 July 2022
• At the Texas Class 6A state championships, Cook was untouchable.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2022
• As mentioned above, Brady will likely be untouchable for several NFL records in the decades to come — if not for the rest of the league’s history.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
• The problem is that the money can be untouchable for many months — not good when customers are demanding it.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
• Aside from that, Burnes was untouchable, facing just two over the minimum.
  — Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2023
• That is to say, his story is not of some untouchable genius but rather of a better version of ourselves.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2023
• Eminem is, and will forever be, an untouchable figure in the rap game.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 30 Dec. 2022
• Shugart's catch, the third to weigh in, proved untouchable, a mammoth kingfish at nearly 50 pounds that held up comfortably through the entire day.
  — Clayton Freeman, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
• No one should be considered untouchable at this stage of the rebuilding project.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 24 Jan. 2022
• But when teenage Nayana starts taking an interest in a boy, Ganesh rapidly picks up the clues that say Sahej must be a Dalit, an untouchable.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• Jordan James will have a hard time breaking through as a true freshman, but nobody ahead of him has so proven themselves as to be untouchable.
  — oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2022
• But if part-time payrolls are already thin and full-time payrolls are untouchable, where will the adaptation come from?
  — Daniel Altman, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Pictures of Halliwell were splashed across the front pages of the country's then-untouchable tabloid newspapers the next morning.
  — CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
• This is the reality for the vast majority of teams, of course, for all of those clubs marooned outside the game’s untouchable elite.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• The Hyde Amendment was often seen as untouchable, Hopkins said.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2023
• So the idea of these people who feel kind of untouchable, kind of like the sort of Gods of Manhattan, being taken down…there's a satisfaction in that.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2022
• Well, An Officer and a Spy is presently untouchable in the English-speaking world.
  — John R. MacArthur, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• Now the Sox, with a barren farm system, have no big pieces to deal for a reliable starter, other than perhaps Vaughn and Gavin Sheets, who should be untouchable.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• The hole at 2-5 brought out the swinging forehand volley winner and an untouchable crosscourt backhand to get him within a point.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
• Leak by agonizing leak, the uncertainty chips away at the aura of an icon who was once thought to be untouchable.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024

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untouchable

2 of 2 noun

• By Grace in Bangalore come from the lowest rung of the Indian caste system: the untouchables.
  — Ian Cummings, kansascity, 26 May 2017
• The rest of the roster has a couple of untouchables (catcher Buster Posey and ace Madison Bumgarner), a few decent performers who aren’t going anywhere, plus a handful of aging busts.
  — SI.com, 25 July 2017
• The untouchables, whose special role — whose hereditary duty — is to labor in the fields of others or to do other work that Hindu society considers filthy, are not allowed to live in the village at all.
  — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 17 July 2017
• Dalits are what India’s former untouchables now call themselves.
  — Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• In fact, India’s 14% Muslim minority is, by most measures, little better off than the 17% who are dalits (the lowest caste, formerly known as untouchables).
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• Since the constitution banned discrimination against untouchables 70 years ago, and with quotas for state schools, jobs and elected offices giving Dalits a leg up, gaps in education, income and health have steadily shrunk.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Roy’s idealism fits snugly with her unabated dedication to the others of Indian society—from tribal Maoists to Kashmiri rebels to Dalits (untouchables) to slum-dwellers.
  — Neha Sharma, New Republic, 27 June 2017
• Once known as untouchables and reviled as ritually unclean, this sixth of India’s population has never been more integrated.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Uncertainty has prompted some concern over the military and highly trained group of untouchables policing local populations.
  — Aaron Nelsen, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2018
• By Grace in Bangalore come from the lowest rung of the Indian caste system: the untouchables.
  — Ian Cummings, kansascity, 26 May 2017
• The rest of the roster has a couple of untouchables (catcher Buster Posey and ace Madison Bumgarner), a few decent performers who aren’t going anywhere, plus a handful of aging busts.
  — SI.com, 25 July 2017
• The untouchables, whose special role — whose hereditary duty — is to labor in the fields of others or to do other work that Hindu society considers filthy, are not allowed to live in the village at all.
  — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 17 July 2017
• Dalits are what India’s former untouchables now call themselves.
  — Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• In fact, India’s 14% Muslim minority is, by most measures, little better off than the 17% who are dalits (the lowest caste, formerly known as untouchables).
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• Since the constitution banned discrimination against untouchables 70 years ago, and with quotas for state schools, jobs and elected offices giving Dalits a leg up, gaps in education, income and health have steadily shrunk.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Roy’s idealism fits snugly with her unabated dedication to the others of Indian society—from tribal Maoists to Kashmiri rebels to Dalits (untouchables) to slum-dwellers.
  — Neha Sharma, New Republic, 27 June 2017
• Once known as untouchables and reviled as ritually unclean, this sixth of India’s population has never been more integrated.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Uncertainty has prompted some concern over the military and highly trained group of untouchables policing local populations.
  — Aaron Nelsen, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024