How to Use unscalable in a Sentence

unscalable

adjective

• The ‘shades of the prison-house’ closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night.
  — Annika Neklason, The Atlantic, 2 May 2018
• As unscalable as this sounds, emails, posts on social media and even letters may not work in this case.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• The site is also surrounded by unscalable black fences that curl outward at the top.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 June 2022
• Scores of protesters descended on the court after the leak and an eight-foot, unscalable fence was erected around the building.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
• That night, protesters, armed with signs and bullhorns, flocked to the high court, and officials soon ringed the historic building with an unscalable fence.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
• Long gone are the days of unscalable on-premises databases or difficult-to-manage Hadoop clusters.
  — Bruno Aziza, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• But the final concussion at first appeared as an unscalable wall.
  — Greg Levinsky, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2020
• This may seem unscalable because no one has time to connect with all customer champions at such a deep personal level.
  — Trinity Nguyen, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• Erected in January, the fence is 7 feet high, made of black metal mesh, and is supposedly unscalable – its openings purposely too small for a toehold.
  — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2021
• Reaching the German stronghold required an assault on 1,500-foot-high Riva Ridge, which the enemy considered to be unscalable.
  — Dan Leeth, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2017
• Because of the pandemic and Jan. 6-like security risks, a sea of flags were planted in the ground instead, forming different images inside the federal park cordoned off by a 7-foot unscalable fence.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 20 Jan. 2021
• Essentially, Lightning aims to solve the big problem that has loomed over bitcoin in recent years: Satoshi Nakamoto's design for bitcoin is comically unscalable.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2018
• VisionX is one opportunity to go back to the roots of communication and start fresh, rather than pursue ultimately unsustainable and unscalable advances of more of the same.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2021
• What was once a sharper phenotypic optimum turns into a narrow and unscalable gully.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2010
• Businesses growing in unscalable ways and pouring money into sales and marketing are feeling the pain of markdowns on their future valuations.
  — Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• The Capitol complex, typically a hive of activity, remained cut off from its surroundings Sunday night by troop deployments and an imposing scrim of seven-foot-tall, unscalable fencing.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2021
• Juanita fell victim to what advocates for court reform say is a criminal justice system that routinely turns a traffic infraction into an unscalable mountain of debt for thousands of low-income Ohio drivers.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• Most farmers, though concerned about increasing pesticide use, saw organic farming as unscalable and ruinously expensive.
  — Shely Aronov, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• The point is that procedural generation systems still require massive human supervision; developers must keep vigilant for unscalable crevasses or monstrous trees.
  — WIRED, 25 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024