How to Use unlivable in a Sentence

unlivable

adjective
  • Airstrikes have made Gaza City, and much of the rest of the north, an unlivable ruin.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Will some countries be unlivable in the years and decades to come?
    Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
  • As a result of the fire, two of the RVs are unlivable, Scott said, but the third should be fine once it’s been aired out.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2022
  • This was the case for Don Young's house and the home of his parents in-laws, whose houses are now unlivable.
    The Courier-Journal, 31 July 2022
  • Now, the worst months of the summer are nearly unlivable.
    Rumsey Taylor, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Many of the homes are now unlivable, but families have nowhere else to go.
    CBS News, 29 Sep. 2017
  • For some of us, the cost of health coverage has simply made the state unlivable.
    Author: Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Officials at the scene said the home was deemed unlivable.
    charlotteobserver, 14 Sep. 2017
  • It is not seen to be a judgment by which many condemn the lives available to them as unlivable.
    Blake Smith, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
  • For Jones and her children, though, their home is unlivable.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Much of the nation could become unlivable in the coming decade.
    New York Times, 3 June 2021
  • That can make parts of the city feel unlivable during heat waves, which are getting longer and more frequent in the region.
    Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 23 July 2024
  • The area where the woman lived was a studio apartment on the first floor, which is unlivable because of smoke damage.
    Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2018
  • Workers, made available for comment by the UFCW union, say their wages and hours are unlivable.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The United Nations warns the coastal enclave may be unlivable by 2020.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The house has been unlivable for more than a decade, and discussions about what to do with the property have been ramping up.
    Willie James Inman, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • In the worst months of summer, some places are already nearly unlivable.
    Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • Absent major changes, the U.N. says Gaza will be unlivable by 2020.
    Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Critics of the problem say the hands-off approach has made some areas unlivable.
    Fox News, 21 June 2019
  • Water damage in the living areas caused by the water used on the attic fire made the home unlivable.
    courant.com, 18 Feb. 2021
  • That would slow the climate change that threatens, in this century, to make some cities unlivable.
    Andrew Moore, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Last year was the hottest in recorded history and scientists say the world is on track to heat up even more, to the point where parts of the planet will be unlivable.
    Jack Ewing, New York Times, 27 May 2024
  • Tent cities line many streets where homes remain unlivable.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Broken windows, a hole in the kitchen floor and major structural issues made the home unlivable.
    cleveland, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The trees collapsed the roof over three of the bedrooms in the Passow household, reducing the bedrooms to rubble and making the house unlivable.
    High School Journalism Institute, oregonlive.com, 19 July 2019
  • The shooting left the Browns’ home unlivable, according to her GoFundMe post.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
  • The home is now unlivable and Ms. Bustamante and her two young daughters have been left with trauma and nightmares.
    Sara Cline, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • One of their first purchases was a travel trailer—the home was unlivable.
    David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The monastery, built in 1924, was considered unsafe and unlivable.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022
  • They were given units that seemed unlivable — with a difficult choice.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2024

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