How to Use unrecoverable in a Sentence

unrecoverable

adjective

• The boat sank at the tip of the Umpqua River Jetty and is deemed unrecoverable for now.
  — oregonlive.com, 5 July 2019
• The Red Raiders went into the timeout with a 28-9 lead, a lead that would put Montana State in an unrecoverable deficit.
  — Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2022
• All bear, or sought, the traces of the Beatles’ aura, but their identities and motives remain, like so much of the past, unrecoverable.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• The Sooners finished the game shooting a scorching 13-of-28 from deep, which put Texas Tech into an unrecoverable hole.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2022
• With the Red Raiders unable to do anything to slow down the Longhorns’ defense, their lifelessness of offense dug them in an unrecoverable ditch way too early into this game.
  — Ryan Mainville, Dallas News, 25 Sep. 2021
• Baylor ended this game controlling the ball for over 40 minutes, putting Texas Tech in an unrecoverable deficit.
  — Dallas News, 29 Oct. 2022
• Meyer traced it in the early 1950s to Switzerland, yet the looted work was unrecoverable under Swiss law, even though its pillaging was not in dispute.
  — David D'arcy, CNN, 7 June 2021
• The injury to the Kentucky Derby hopeful was said to be unrecoverable, and he was euthanized.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2023
• While the researchers were able to reconstruct almost all of the Christmas Island rat's genome, almost 5 percent of it was unrecoverable, according to the study.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
• On match days, the squad is a hotchpotch of bright sparks scrambling around to recover an unrecoverable ambiance only 17 seasons of the Argentine’s flair can bring.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Once the air is thin enough, the fairing splits off and descends back to Earth, usually unrecoverable, and certainly unusable.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 4 July 2019
• There is a huge risk that a person will panic in a normal bear market downturn of 40% and sell out, incurring unrecoverable losses.
  — Larry Light, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• Thomson collects intact bags, officials said, but the contents of unrecoverable bags that have been hit by cars are left to wash into drainage ditches.
  — oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2020
• His criticism, of course, comes at a crucial juncture for his campaign, where missing the debate stage could prove unrecoverable.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
• Older adults, meanwhile, are often assumed to be on a downward slope with unrecoverable loss.
  — Rachel Wu, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
• The city said Wednesday that the files consisted of images, video, audio, case notes and other items gathered by Dallas police, and that those that are still missing are believed to be unrecoverable.
  — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2021
• But recently the markets have lost their nerve: As of late May, the company’s stock was down 90% from its high, leaving Wall Street to wonder whether the current setback is a minor detour or an unrecoverable crash.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 24 May 2022
• Newsom’s political future is tied now to what the image evokes for tens of millions of Californians, the tenuous hope ahead or the unrecoverable loss of the past year.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
• As noted earlier, two of the visits resulted in the logs the researchers relied on being unrecoverable.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2022
• The company was initially told the money was unrecoverable, but was eventually able to claw it back.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2019
• The last time the death toll changed was Aug. 21, the day that President Biden visited Lahaina, a span of time that reflects the new phase of the recovery effort, as well as the likelihood that many people’s bodies were reduced to unrecoverable ash.
  — Tim Arango and Lisa L. Schell, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• With the shutdown poised to extend deep into the second quarter, FilmLA analysts predict that local losses in terms of shoot days are already unrecoverable for the year.
  — Bryn Elise Sandberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2020
• The system malfunctioned in both crashes, sending the planes into unrecoverable nose dives.
  — David Gelles, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• There are bigger, deeper, and likely unrecoverable losses ahead for the world’s largest venture-capital fund.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• Like Brady in the latter half of the Patriots dynasty, Mahomes benefits from an outgoing, unrecoverable tight end.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
• In that case, Mexican democracy would not only have lost many unrecoverable years.
  — Enrique Krauze, The New York Review of Books, 2 July 2020
• The Secret Service disputes her account, but has provided just a single text exchange from the time period to the panel, saying others had been deleted and were unrecoverable.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
• The follow-on of more non-family-values-friendly stories might well have begun an unrecoverable spiral.
  — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• Humans kill over 120 million sharks a year, mainly for their fins for soup and many shark species are now under considerable risk of unrecoverable decline with some species having declined to near extinction in recent years.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Jan. 2022
• As generally solid as the Colts' roster projects, that might be unrecoverable given Wentz has yet to see any game action with this group, a distinct difference from Luck's situation.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024