How to Use unaffordable in a Sentence

unaffordable

adjective

• To be sure, housing has long been unaffordable for the poor.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2022
• Still, that means even with the adjustment, such meals are unaffordable for people in need across much of the U.S.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2021
• If the interest rate shoots up at the end of the initial term, the buyer may be on the hook for an unaffordable payment.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 20 May 2022
• What’s more, home for the four of them is the latest in a succession of house-sitting gigs in unaffordable L.A.
  — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
• The pricey homes in the most expensive places just got too unaffordable when rates inevitably spiked.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
• As if this wasn’t enough to contend with, childcare is unaffordable in Britain.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• The bank attributes much of the West’s migration woes to unaffordable housing.
  — Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2024
• Users in some countries with a lower standard of living have said that the fee is unaffordable.
  — Nathan Grayson, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• For a record half of U.S. renters, their housing is now unaffordable, Harvard finds.
  — Daniel Wood, NPR, 20 June 2024
• Rents and house prices have risen, making more of the state’s housing unaffordable to people with low incomes.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2022
• Huntsville and Auburn are two Alabama cities the story said will be unaffordable within the next decade.
  — Scott Turner | [e-mail], al, 4 July 2022
• Higher interest rates mean that the cost of a new home mortgage is now unaffordable for many.
  — David Ditch, National Review, 11 July 2024
• So for now, the Phoenix market remains unaffordable for many.
  — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2024
• Bellinger's salary is not unaffordable for MLB's big-spending teams.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• Sure, rental prices are dropping, but the Bay Area remains unaffordable for many people.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• Even though many life-saving drugs are vastly unaffordable to people who need them most, drug prices on the whole are only up 0.4% year-over-year.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• Both Wickline and her husband work full time, and having a nanny care for two kids was unaffordable.
  — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
• These fires will bring new consequences for our unaffordable city, for those whose homes were destroyed and for those, like us, trying to find a square foot to call our own.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
• Aguillard, the superintendent, said that the new rate is unaffordable for the draft budget for next year.
  — Sunni Bean, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
• The buyers who didn’t pay extra to lock in those rates long-term are now looking at monthly payments that may be unaffordable.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• The costs associated with even one year of long-term care can prove to be unaffordable for most people.
  — Jane Tavares, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2024
• Yet, Wong fears even that might soon become unaffordable.
  — Denise Wee, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• And if that weren’t bad enough, real wages have barely gone up in decades, and rent in every state is considered unaffordable.
  — Colette Shade, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
• Though some Bored Ape holders may have bought in early when prices were cheap, most are unaffordable to the average person.
  — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2022
• The cost on debt interest is $800 million a day, and unaffordable welfare state costs will persist for years.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2021
• Inflation has cooled in recent months, but the preceding two-year spike has left many goods unaffordable, said the 52-year-old father of five.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
• Concerns have also been raised about the price of molnupiravir, which, at about $700 per course, will be unaffordable for some nations.
  — Yasmin Tayag, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
• As programs struggle to meet the need, advocates hope to change the low wages and unaffordable housing that contribute to hunger.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Jan. 2021
• Such laws have been good for the business of law, but legal services are unaffordable for many Americans.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Rising home prices and insurance premiums in the aftermath of the fires could make Southern California unaffordable for many residents, experts say.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 10 Mar 2025