How to Use unwatchable in a Sentence

unwatchable

adjective
  • From the unwatchable to the must-see, here are all nine A Nightmare on Elm Street movies, ranked.
    Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2022
  • All that can go wrong does go wrong, and the process is both compelling and close to unwatchable.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2017
  • The third and most unwatchable of Presley's Hawaii films.
    Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
  • The must-watch team at the start of the season has grown into, most days, something unwatchable.
    Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2021
  • That includes a product on the field that is at times unwatchable.
    USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2017
  • For long stretches of the last three seasons, the Sixers and Lakers have been unwatchable.
    Ben Golliver, SI.com, 23 June 2017
  • Those games were unwatchable and a waste of everyone’s time.
    Ben Golliver, SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The games were called unwatchable by many, which was not a god way for the league to be viewed in its annual showcase of its best players.
    Jason Jones, sacbee, 18 Feb. 2018
  • The Phillies needed just five weeks to go from intriguing to unwatchable.
    Matt Breen, Philly.com, 1 June 2017
  • For those who missed the debate or who, like Buttigieg, simply thought it unwatchable, here are the seven key moments to know about.
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Honestly, that was a perfect time for the most unwatchable Jazz game.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
  • In the meantime, the tenants of Madison Square Garden have been unwatchable.
    New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Music forms one of the overarching themes of both the book and the play, and without it the two-part production would be unwatchable.
    Glenn Sumi, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The Last Man on Earth, there’s no hard and fast rule for why some parts are incredible and others unwatchable.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2021
  • For most people, this was unwatchable, a grab-the-remote, change-the-channel moment in a forum that in past election years has served the country well.
    Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Suns fans watched their team not just miss the post-season the previous 10 years, but become unwatchable for many seasons.
    Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
  • This could be a potentially unwatchable matchup and the under is a tempting play here.
    Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The TV set was by then likely shut off as another game had become unwatchable.
    Matt Breen, Philly.com, 1 June 2017
  • Looking for a great — or at least not unwatchable — new Christmas movie for some last-minute holiday cheer?
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 23 Dec. 2022
  • This might end up being the perfect ending, or a unwatchable nightmare.
    SI.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Critics from inside and outside the league said this style of play had increasingly made the N.B.A. unwatchable and unfair.
    New York Times, 24 Dec. 2021
  • By the second half of the season, the acting and scripts turn juvenile and stilted, rendering the episodes almost unwatchable.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
  • So Batman makes a case for heavily armed law and order, which means a whole unwatchable scene about a high-artillery Batplane.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The Gamecocks went from bad to unwatchable in gaining just 150 total yards, advancing the ball beyond midfield just three times.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Until the fourth quarter, the Lions were a borderline unwatchable team.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2021
  • But what the U.S. Open is doing is making the game unwatchable because golfers are struggling to do anything positive.
    The Tylt, OregonLive.com, 15 June 2017
  • Until Mullen arrived, UF fans had endured ugly, unwatchable offense for the better part of a decade.
    Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2020
  • This is what has ruined Hollywood movies and made the Oscars telecast unwatchable.
    Armond White, National Review, 19 Aug. 2022
  • And yet, his film is so psychologically searing it borders on the unwatchable.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 May 2023
  • The man is the definition of a dweeb and made an already insufferable season completely unwatchable.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023

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