How to Use unmanageable in a Sentence

unmanageable

adjective
  • If that feels unmanageable, try to aim for at least once a month.
    Nicole Pyles, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The Ouai’s famous hair oil keeps even the most unmanageable hair slick and shiny.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But as the evening wore on, the crowd became unmanageable.
    Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
  • This is how the debt grows over time and can make the monthly payment unmanageable.
    Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But the cost of treatment was unmanageable even for her.
    Johanna Deeksha, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Brown said adding more people would make the events unmanageable.
    Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The offense was left with lengthy and unmanageable distances on third downs.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In 2018, the cost became unmanageable and Chen went back to her mother for costumes.
    New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Most say the cost of living is at least somewhat unmanageable.
    Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna, Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Students are often left with unmanageable levels of debt and jobs whose salaries are not enough to pay it off.
    USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But each time, they were told to manage the symptoms at home and to come in only if the symptoms became unmanageable.
    Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2020
  • That penalty left the Lions facing an unmanageable third-and-25 and opened the door for the Packers' rally.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Add Delta to the mix and expenses begin to feel unmanageable.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • On top of that, Black and Latino people were far more likely to say that their debt is unmanageable (39%) than white people (23%).
    Mckenna Moore, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • This creates a level of stress and work that is nearly unmanageable.
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The crowd in Selma swelled to such an unmanageable size that day that state officials were forced at the last minute to cap the number of participants.
    Malina Saval, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Worldwide poverty, hunger and unmanageable debt are all on the upswing.
    New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • By the end of May, though, Selig had calculated that at the new prices, running Apollo would cost him an unmanageable $20 million a year.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 13 June 2023
  • The data also shows the areas least exposed to unmanageable climate shocks, at least so far.
    Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • And that goes from being manageable and unmanageable, but that’s starting to lift.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2023
  • And that goes from being manageable and unmanageable, but that's starting to lift.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This is true for everyone: the manageable and the unmanageable.
    George Bradt, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • On its own, this process would quickly grow to a point where there is a completely unmanageable number of chemicals to track.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022
  • As for the House, there’s a slight chance Democrats hold on, though the odds are higher that the Republicans will eke out a narrow and unmanageable majority.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Without a class size cap, some classes have grown to unmanageable levels.
    Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2021
  • For thick and unmanageable hair look no further than Hanz De Fuko Claymation.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • Some others have moved away from test-to-stay programs that became unmanageable during surges of the omicron variant last school year.
    Mike Stobbe and Collin Binkley, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The new system is now too sensitive and creates an unmanageable number of alerts and cases, the agency said.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • On the drive home, Reed became unmanageable, according to his girlfriend, Alina Tsybulnik, and jumped out of the car.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 23 May 2022
  • With the Saints finding themselves in a 14-0 hole within the game's first five minutes, the slow and ugly start for the Saints didn't turn into an unmanageable situation.
    Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 4 Oct. 2020

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