How to Use unelectable in a Sentence

unelectable

adjective

• If those activists were not naive, if this man was not unelectable, the centrists’ entire lives had been a lie.
  — David Graeber, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2020
• In the past, a candidate with such legal problems would be unelectable.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 19 June 2023
• The Democrats went all in to nominate the most unelectable Republicans.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
• So Democrats compete to determine which of them stands the best chance of toppling a president who should be unelectable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• The Obama of those earlier campaigns would have been unelectable in the 2016 primary.
  — Berny Belvedere, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
• Corbyn, the subject of a ferocious assault from Britain’s right-wing tabloid press, was widely deemed unelectable.
  — Alex Massie, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• The more unelectable Labour became, the more Corbyn and his Stalinist controllers were entrenched in power.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• Thus, Democrats must assemble coalitions to win, and some measures that would please its far left would make candidates in flyover country unelectable.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
• Such candidates can’t be treated as part of a comically unelectable, and thus harmless, fringe.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
• In a similar way, donors and consultants warned, Democrats were on the verge of nominating an unelectable socialist.
  — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
• Her defeat was a relief to national Democrats who saw Moser's liberal campaign as an unelectable drag on their chances of retaking control of the House.
  — Fox News, 23 May 2018
• Whatever the new thinking — bold, strong, even unelectable — humility may be needed as well.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2021
• Bartos, meanwhile, has claimed the existence of the protection orders made Parnell unelectable.
  — Michael Warren, CNN, 24 Oct. 2021
• Not so long ago, the far-left maverick was dismissed as utterly unelectable — in ways even more emphatic than Donald Trump in the primary season.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Sep. 2017
• This belief persists this despite the victory, in that election, of a man who was widely considered one of the most unelectable candidates ever to seek the presidency.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2020
• Many Republican voters, moreover, don’t care about the abundance of evidence that Mastriano is unelectable in a statewide election.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• Schulz has called those positions unelectable in a November race against a Democratic nominee, in which the winner will need the support of some Democrats and moderate Republicans.
  — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2022
• These people say the most unelectable candidates in this region are the ones who backed economic proposals that hurt its voters, a framework that would explain Mrs. Clinton’s struggles, but also includes Mr. Biden.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2019
• However, opponents argue that Bryce's rap sheet makes him unreliable and unelectable.
  — Gregg Re, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2018
• The success of very liberal candidates in primaries across four states is causing a new bout of heartburn among party strategists in Washington, who worry about unelectable activists thwarting their drive for the House majority.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• For them, Biden is a safety valve—a good, churchgoing Catholic and anti-police defunder whose presence ensures that the party doesn’t nominate someone centrists consider unelectable.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Nov. 2022
• His unelectable Republican opponent is Curtis Sliwa, a street mercenary and former mob kidnap victim who lives with either 16 or 17 cats.
  — Choire Sicha, Curbed, 21 Sep. 2021
• His presence at the top of the ticket is unlikely to help build functioning Republican majorities in the House and Senate, especially given his track record of promoting unelectable candidates.
  — WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
• Corbyn has been dubbed unelectable and faced considerable opposition from his own party, but his radical chic and pro-spending policies have won over considerable numbers of younger voters.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 6 June 2017
• If Republicans nominated a few too many unelectable stop-the-steal candidates or if a few too many Democratic incumbents proved too resilient, the Republican structural edge would evaporate.
  — Nate Cohn, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• No longer do these voters follow the old pattern of threatening to back seemingly unelectable alternatives to the establishment only to relent and hand out the Republican nomination like a gold watch at a retirement party.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 6 Dec. 2021
• Republicans, meanwhile, are increasingly worried they may be saddled with an unelectable nominee in West Virginia.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 20 Apr. 2018
• Doughty, who repeatedly painted Diehl as unelectable during the primary, threw his support behind the nominee after conceding Tuesday.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• While the question of any link between Buttigieg’s sexuality and electability has not been a major issue among his fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls, his rivals have been trying to use his mayoral experience to paint him as unelectable.
  — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2020
• And Trump’s election, after the most openly misogynistic campaign in modern history, convinced most Democratic Party regulars that American women were unelectable to the highest office in the land for at least another cycle.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024