How to Use unsellable in a Sentence

unsellable

adjective

• This makes the Ivory unsellable and it can’t be consumed.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2021
• Pieces the Reich deemed unsellable were consigned to the fire.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• Pieces the Reich deemed unsellable were consigned to the fire.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• Even the smallest amount of a male plant’s pollen can seed a whole crop, and pot with seeds is unsellable.
  — Brontez Purnell, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
• This leads to a waste of time and money to scale an unsellable product.
  — Bhaskar Ahuja, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• The vast suburban homes of boomers and Gen X-ers were forecast to become unsellable.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• When Britain’s ban on its ivory trade becomes law, these too could become unsellable and, in a sense, worthless.
  — Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• The store deemed all of the items in her cart unsellable due to cross-contamination, the employee said.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 9 Apr. 2020
• Rain is worse than snow, because wet papers are unsellable.
  — Patrick Farrell, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• For the Hollywood of the seventies and eighties, the Victors of the world were unrecognizable—and unsellable—types.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• Over decades, that reaction can cause the concrete to crack and crumble, making some homes unsellable and unlivable.
  — Susan Haigh, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
• The thieves tried to convince the victim to remove the Activation Lock feature that made her iPhone unusable and unsellable.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 16 Aug. 2022
• Android OEMs seem to all believe that small phone designs are unsellable, and if that's true, there's really nothing to worry about.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2020
• In his role as a progressive surrogate, Biden was unable to honestly sell to voters the Left’s unsellable agenda.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
• The unsellable marijuana products will be quarantined for 72 hours, mixed with shredded paper and water and sent to a landfill.
  — Julia Sclafani, sacbee, 28 June 2018
• How else to explain that Rover, the name of vehicles that were all but unsellable a generation ago, is swimming in investment today while haughty Jaguar finds itself on a short leash?
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2023
• The reverse supply chain is another matter, with a chaotic and unpredictable mix of products from like-new to those that are unsellable flowing in a wide range of directions.
  — Alan Amling and Thomas Goldsby, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2022
• Could a winery afford grape purchases and production expenses on a wine that might be unsellable?
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2020
• Ever since the Reagan revolution, Democrats have had a sickening feeling that their core idea about government is unsellable.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Nonetheless, Trump has reportedly taken up the challenge of selling the unsellable: a health-care plan that has upset just about every interest group besides its own authors.
  — vanityfair.com, 8 Mar. 2017
• In each case, Black families had little choice but to leave, giving up not only their houses, which pollution had rendered unsellable, but also their community.
  — Anya Groner, The Atlantic, 7 May 2021
• Hurricane Zeta — the final storm to make landfall in Louisiana during a record-breaking hurricane season — caused growers in the area to lose 75-90% of their crop, knocking the heavy, ripe fruits off their branches and rendering them unsellable.
  — Halle Parker | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• The materials in the sofa are damaged, unsellable, or cut from obsolete stocks of Balenciaga clothing.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 5 Dec. 2019
• This is an artist born into music royalty, who freely borrowed from black culture for Bangerz and stepping outside her contract to record the near-unsellable vanity project that was Dead Petz before reclaiming her country music birthright.
  — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2017
• Meanwhile, the catastrophe continues to unfold in human terms: unsellable homes, more deeply entrenched poverty, and the mass lead poisoning of a generation of children, the cognitive consequences of which are still to be determined.
  — Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
• The items, which previously would have been unsellable, range from technical Summit Series outerwear to lifestyle apparel.
  — Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online, 8 June 2018
• The fact that basically anyone could design and sell hastily coded Atari 2600 games with no interference from or cooperation with Atari led to a game market flooded with shovelware and to clearance bins filled with unsellable dreck.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
• Dead stock is unsellable inventory that was either over-ordered due to inaccurate forecasting (or sales/marketing predictions) or didn’t sell in a way that is consistent with the product’s sales history.
  — Rick Morris, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• Balenciaga has teamed up with Russian artist Harry Nuriev on a striking sofa crafted of Balenciaga clothing that's either damaged, unsellable, or left over from past seasons.
  — Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 4 Dec. 2019
• Unlike housing market crashes, where property values usually bounce back, these homes will be unusable (and unsellable) forever.
  — Alex Harris, miamiherald, 18 June 2018

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024