How to Use unavoidable in a Sentence

unavoidable

adjective
  • Some were unavoidable; the sand cleaned flesh out of the tires and the smell didn’t linger.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • That said, Gorr’s death is unavoidable in this version of the script.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 10 July 2022
  • For many, shift work is an unavoidable part of their job.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The first glimpse of what has now turned out to be the unavoidable tragic end to BSC came a few years back.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 29 May 2024
  • The key point is that, even if the actions taken over the weekend were unavoidable, this can’t be the end of the story.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Change is often very painful and scary, but an unavoidable part of life.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
  • This is unavoidable due to the structure and material of the stool.
    Addie Morton, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2023
  • While risk is unavoidable, don’t dwell on the challenges.
    Rick Luebbe, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • But there are unavoidable conclusions to be drawn about the size of container ships vs. the size of the canal.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • Waiting for trains is just an unavoidable fact of city life.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In these speeches, Mr. Xi did not say that war was unavoidable.
    Chris Buckley, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But none are as omnipresent and unavoidable as the laundry.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • Ohio State’s standing atop the league was inevitable and unavoidable.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The film grows more cringeworthy by the minute, and, of course, a reckoning is unavoidable.
    Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
  • If a collision is unavoidable, brake and stay in your lane.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2024
  • If a collision is unavoidable, brake and stay in your lane.
    Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2024
  • This makes the hand of the author, which is erased, or at least abstracted in Dre’s music, unavoidable in West’s.
    Paul Thompson, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In this story, tragedy is unavoidable, and this is just one example of that.
    Lynette Rice, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2022
  • As predicted, the bumps in that road were unavoidable, the two NBA stars trying to find the best way to play alongside each other.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • To add to the list of unavoidable stink bug attractions, these insects love warmth and sunlight.
    Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 14 June 2022
  • The mess of the duck sanctuary is sometimes unavoidable.
    Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Perhaps the fog seemed at its most pervasive and unavoidable in the morning.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Some of that shift in emphasis may have been unavoidable.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • For gardeners, weeding is an unavoidable part of the job.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But right now, the extra emissions are unavoidable, Williams said.
    Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In New York, Miguel Richards’ parents weren’t the only ones who had doubts about the department’s claims that the shooting was unavoidable.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
  • For people on the pale side, a noticeable flush can be unavoidable.
    Rachel Nussbaum, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The corruption of the Nigerian state is an unavoidable fact.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • While working out how much each curve would contribute to a trace phi cubed amplitude, the group came across curves that were unavoidable but that didn’t change the final answer.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • And while having a majority of House polls hail from partisan groups might seem like a lot, that's an unavoidable reality with this kind of polling.
    Mary Radcliffe, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2024

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