How to Use unsafe in a Sentence

unsafe

adjective

• Drug use surged, and the place grew unsafe and run-down.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• No one should ever feel this way and no child should ever go to school and feel unsafe.
  — Sarah Ritter The Kansas City Star (tns), al, 21 July 2022
• City staff declared the structure to be unsafe/vacant in 2008.
  — Joseph Flaherty, arkansasonline.com, 11 Dec. 2023
• The students, who live on the south side of campus, said the nighttime patrolling can feel unsafe.
  — Dia Gill, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
• Then again, neither is riding in the back of a truck bed, which can also be unsafe.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 25 Jan. 2023
• Any other food items should be treated as unsafe to eat and thrown out.
  — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 21 May 2024
• Getting up too soon on a plane is unsafe and can increase the danger.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
• Some were worried the air in the facility would be unsafe to breathe because of smoke from the fire.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• The mission was only supposed to last six months, but the ship that was supposed to bring the crew home had a coolant leak and was deemed unsafe.
  — Jon Michael Raasch Fox News, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The walk back to their car felt extremely unsafe as an intense wind storm broke out.
  — Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
• And prior to Thursday, there did not appear to be grounds for Twitter to claim that Mastodon links were unsafe.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
• Zarate, who wants to end fares, said many of the group’s members who use public transit sometimes feel unsafe.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• Crews can respond to outages as long as winds aren't above 29 mph, at which the weather is deemed unsafe for crews to work outside.
  — Cheryl Vari, The Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2024
• In his order, Kacsmaryk the drug -- which has been on the market for 23 years -- is unsafe and its approval process was rushed.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Refuse to let anyone talk you into something that feels unsafe or wrong.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2024
• The men’s triathlon was postponed by a day because of unsafe conditions.
  — Alice Park / Paris, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
• Knight and Gilbert, who are fighting the eviction, maintain that the conditions are still unsafe.
  — Alison Burdo, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2022
• The amusement parks of his era had few rides that parents could enjoy with their children and were often dirty and unsafe.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Anchor other things that may be unsafe to bring indoors, such as grills or propane tanks.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• One of the most urgent needs was shelter to help the thousands of people whose homes were either destroyed or may be unsafe.
  — Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• After a while, Merrick asked if there was anything unsafe about this.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 July 2024
• Forty-five percent of abortions in the world are unsafe, the U.N. calculated.
  — Neha Wadekar, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• If the Soyuz is unsafe, the three crew members would have no immediate means of returning to Earth—and for now the outlook for the Soyuz is not good.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 15 Dec. 2022
• No one should be put in unsafe circumstances while trying to earn a living.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
• Anyone with eyesight in East Palestine could see, from the plume of toxic smoke that rose from the accident site for days, that the air was unsafe to breathe.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
• The museum also has an agreement with the city of Des Moines to remove structures that become unsafe, per the Times.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• Forcing e-bike riders to use roads is currently unsafe because the bikes are too slow to mix with cars.
  — Byyvonne Lau, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2022
• Barcelona is the most car-dense city in the European Union, sometimes making cycling to school unsafe for children.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
• While the marketplace has helped Amazon bring in record revenue, it’s also been found to host counterfeit, unsafe and even expired goods.
  — Annie Palmer,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
• Hours after the leak began, Gonzalez said the area was still unsafe for investigators to enter and that officials may not be able to get inside until Friday.
  — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024