How to Use unusable in a Sentence

unusable

adjective

• The space was left charred and for the most part unusable.
  — Phillip Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2021
• Wrestlers at the edge of the ring would be in the shadow of the light, making the photos unusable.
  — John Kuntz, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2021
• The lake is used for recreation, and most of the boat ramps would be unusable for up to a month.
  — Andrew Selsky, ajc, 17 Mar. 2021
• If the room is unusable, let the hotel know and give it a chance to fix the problem.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 3 June 2022
• The world has rendered more than a third of its arable land unusable in the last 40 years.
  — Erik Fyrwald, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2021
• That and other damage left the place unusable for the last five months.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
• The freeze rendered half of the more than $600 billion in Putin’s war chest unusable.
  — Josh Boak, Chron, 20 Mar. 2022
• At some point, the process would render all of near-Earth space unusable.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• His kitchen was nearly unusable; the oven couldn’t be opened because of the piles, and there was a bookcase in the middle of the room.
  — Camille Baker, Curbed, 5 Apr. 2021
• Wood said almost all of their rods and reels were unusable.
  — Brian Broom, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean all lashes are dirty and unusable.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
• His cleats had been stolen, and the rest of his equipment had been covered in protein shakes and was unusable.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• At idle, the mirrors vibrate so hard as to be unusable.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 1 May 2021
• The windshield is well forward and the doors are so far away that the armrests are nearly unusable.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 17 Sep. 2020
• When the flags are ripped down, the poles holding them up are also destroyed and left unusable.
  — Samuel O’Neal, Idaho Statesman, 24 June 2024
• Some locals said that when the beach gets crowded, like on the weekends, the toilets are full and unusable.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• In the future, even those limited features might go away to the point where the app would be unusable.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 15 May 2021
• Winter makes the beautiful tiny porch unusable for six months of the year.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2023
• SpaceX fixed the toilet on the capsule awaiting liftoff, but deemed the one in orbit unusable.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2021
• Case in point: the app for Apple Music is unusable but there’s a workaround.
  — Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Fighting has rendered the mine unusable for the time being.
  — Justin Ling, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
• But unbeknownst to either of us, the now large gap in her dress where the missing button should have been made the take unusable.
  — Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
• Less appetizing are the fish heads, bones and unusable parts from the whole fish filleted in the kitchen.
  — Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2022
• Some of the damage to the buildings left them unusable for the military until the plumbing and walls are repaired.
  — Houston Keene | Fox News, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2022
• However, mercury would be unusable on the surface of the moon.
  — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2020
• This means that the number of songs that become unusable on TikTok could balloon.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2024
• Last year, most of the grapes from Griffin's Lair were marred by wildfire smoke taint, rendering them unusable.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2021
• Donovan Mitchell crumpled to the floor, couldn’t limp away on his own, needing help into the locker room, his right leg unusable.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• While there is space for a pump of any size, larger pumps may make some interior storage (like the laptop sleeve) unusable.
  — Kelsey Kunik, Rd, Parents, 11 Aug. 2024
• Four of the five thrusters were recovered after overheating and losing thrust, but officials have declared one of the thrusters unusable.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024