How to Use unreasonable in a Sentence

unreasonable

adjective

• You are entitled to compensation for unreasonable delays.
• I told him that I wouldn't pay unless he sent me a replacement. Am I being unreasonable?
• And that the unreasonable terms of model X Lee’s left Collinwood with a food desert.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2022
• At 33, that’s not unreasonable and the Red Sox are among the teams in need of another lefthander in the bullpen.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• Scoping all this out in three days seems a risky and unreasonable ask.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 2 June 2022
• The Irish poet wrote that progress depends on unreasonable men, who make the world adapt to them, not reasonable ones who adapt to the world.
  — Menachem Wecker, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• So, to have Sunday — one day of seven — be a day free of gunshots is not unreasonable.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• Accept a job that’s unreasonable far away from the plaintiff’s home.
  — Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• One of them was, there was a company with a not unreasonable idea on how to make cheap solar cells called Solyndra.
  — Katherine Huggins, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• Problems in the equally famous class NP may take an unreasonable amount of time to solve, but their solutions are easy to check.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
• It’s not unreasonable for Swanson’s price tag to go up after the other mega deals for shortstops.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
• In Maryland, if an unreasonable amount of force is used, people still can claim self-defense to lessen the charges, just not to absolve themselves, O’Neill said.
  — Jessica Ander, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• If the child enrolls at this college, they, and their parents, will have to borrow an unreasonable amount of student loan debt.
  — Mark Kantrowitz, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• Devlin also said that the number of shots North fired was unreasonable.
  — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2022
• The moderates, in turn, gained assurances that the concessions to the hard-liners weren’t unreasonable and wouldn’t be abused.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2023
• That’s not unreasonable, given the NASA contracts on their books worth $262 million.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 16 Sep. 2022
• On that scale, noncompete agreements are unreasonable restraints on the right to earn a living.
  — WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
• Candidates say this has forced deputies to work unreasonable amounts of overtime.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• In short, don’t resign yourself to lukewarm soup or cold spaghetti for fear of being unreasonable—but do expect to wait a beat for the chef to remake it.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 2024
• It’s not unreasonable to think Davis could be back on the court sometime this month, helping give the Lakers a little clarity as the trade deadline looms.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• The lawsuit argued the use of the dogs violated students’ Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• And Texas state penal code deems any noise above 85 decibels unreasonable.
  — By Andrew R Chow/granbury, Texas, TIME, 8 July 2024
• Parks throughout the city began to close again and the maintenance from the city disappeared, as the grass began to grow to unreasonable heights, Benavides said.
  — Eric Guzmán, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
• And more systems and companies have popped up to help merchants and others fight back unreasonable claims.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024
• The lawsuit against the city and the responding officers said the use of force against Whitfield was unreasonable, excessive and deadly.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 20 July 2022
• With that in mind, expecting a Guardians 4 story featuring the same team would be unreasonable.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 June 2022
• Still, that price is plain unreasonable for many; at $999, Samsung’s smaller Galaxy Z Flip 4 is still the more practical choice.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
• That’s another thing that’s so unreasonable of us as a country—to expect Black women to be so strong and so resilient, but not to refill us at all.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2024
• The case stemmed from noise citations written by Hood County constable John Shirley, who has recorded dozens of readings the past few months over 85 decibels, the state’s threshold for which noise is considered unreasonable.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
• Cancer used to be considered a death sentence, which was not an unreasonable fear before the development of modern treatment methods.
  — Steven Petrow, Washington Post, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024