How to Use unbreathable in a Sentence

unbreathable

adjective

• The air has become unbreathable for weeks at a time, according to the Guardian.
  — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2020
• Also, a safe is a much better place to store a gun than in an unbreathable gun case which can lead to rust problems.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023
• The volcano has been spewing out great clouds of ashes for a year now, making the air in the nearby town of Vík almost unbreathable.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Their two-stroke engines created a tremendous din, and the cars belched out an acrid smoke making the new breath of freedom almost unbreathable.
  — Bill Alkofer, Orange County Register, 1 Jan. 2017
• When fires blaze out of control, floods swamp communities, storms flatten buildings, or smoke makes the air unbreathable, people have to flee their homes.
  — WIRED, 11 Jan. 2023
• What was humanity, for that matter, in this unbreathable sphere?
  — Rebecca Giggs, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
• Bay Area residents have grown familiar with the smoky skies and unbreathable air that signals the California fire season.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 June 2021
• A trip to the red planet is like visiting an even more inhospitable Antarctica, and its unbreathable atmosphere is less than two percent of what you’d find at Everest’s summit.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 27 Sep. 2016
• As if agricultural fires and vehicular pollution were not enough, this week, there was an addition to the long list of reasons that make Delhi’s air unbreathable.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 25 Nov. 2020
• As the cabin overheated, food would begin to spoil, photographic film would be damaged, and materials would begin to break down and off-gas, making the air unbreathable.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
• What retiree wants to live in a world with unbreathable air, undrinkable water, and whole segments of society underemployed?
  — Terrence Keeley, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
• Living on Mars, with its unbreathable atmosphere, lack of liquid surface water, and toxic soil, will challenge the hardiest of astronauts.
  — National Geographic, 29 Aug. 2016
• This might have helped lystrosaurus endure an atmosphere that was becoming unbreathable for other animals.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2021
• Compared to that, another living world, with its own unique ecology, would most likely have an environment that is unbreathable and infertile at best, lethally toxic at worst.
  — Fredrick Jenet and Teviet Creighton, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2015
• Unlike Mars, where the very thin atmosphere and relatively high gravity make flying difficult, the atmosphere on Titan is roughly four times denser than ours, although unbreathable, and its gravity is a bit less than on our moon.
  — NBC News, 23 Aug. 2021
• California, meanwhile, is still dealing with the deadliest and most destructive wildfire season on record, also with environmental after-effects; in the Bay Area, toxic ash laden with heavy metals infiltrated the soil and made air unbreathable.
  — Emily Atkin, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 26 Jul 2024