How to Use unsolvable in a Sentence

unsolvable

adjective
  • The mystery of the leader is the mystery of the unsolvable surplus.
    Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
  • And sometimes, an unsolvable mystery is part of the fun!
    Christine Elgersma, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But this challenge is still unsolvable in the market for now.
    Yanie Durocher, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Some in Iowa now feel like they were set up to fail, tasked with solving a problem the DNC now says is unsolvable.
    NBC News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • For the Mariners, just making the playoffs has been an unsolvable riddle.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • Ford and Tench end up in the same place as always, with Manson an unsolvable mystery.
    Lorraine Ali, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • For many offices, this puzzle may be unsolvable, at least for now.
    Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • For the man who loves to suit up While travel comes with a slew of unsolvable inconveniences, a wrinkled suit is not one of them.
    Sarah Grossbart, wsj.com, 10 Nov. 2023
  • That this has dragged on for the entire 20 months of the pandemic and counting might suggest that this is an unsolvable crisis.
    Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Will the Bears give Ryan Pace another shot at solving the most unsolvable position this team has had in decades?
    Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Amanda Ripley does not like to think of any conflict as unsolvable.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2021
  • Heim, a switch-hitter, has been almost unsolvable for lefties in a short sample this year.
    Dallas News, 17 May 2022
  • True crime is a genre that often lives in the black-and-white, but Burden of Proof exists largely in the grey, as a compelling and poignant portrait of the unsolvable mystery of grief.
    James Mercadante and Lindsay Martell, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Why do so many novels about the Vietnam War have an unsolvable mystery at their center?
    Kate McQuade, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
  • At the heart of chaos lies a problem: the equations that describe some physical systems are unsolvable.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 July 2017
  • Many of them have been with us for so long that they’ve almost been normalized in Alaska, as almost unsolvable.
    Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Suicide is an attempt to solve a problem that appears to be unsolvable by any other means.
    Linda Blackwell Simmons, star-telegram, 23 Aug. 2017
  • It’s as if the Heat’s depth suddenly will become some type of unsolvable riddle for Erik Spoelstra.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • This could lead to defeatism, because the problem is perceived as being out of control and unsolvable.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2020
  • If the appraisal comes in low or the buyer loses his job, the loan described in the contract will not be available — perhaps an unsolvable problem.
    Anet Tarpoff, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
  • Tintin, of course, was the Belgian comic-book character who traveled the world with his dog, Snowy, solving unsolvable crimes.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Also to his credit, the unsolvable riddle of his ancestry doesn’t tear at him.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • That way, a problem that seems unsolvable in one language can become more approachable in the other.
    Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
  • This leaves scientists with what is, for now, an unsolvable equation.
    Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The plan, which took three years to draft, drew skepticism ahead of its reveal as many dubbed the conflict in the region virtually unsolvable.
    Fox News, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Skill alone fully insulates no one, but skill plays a role in the nebulous, unsolvable equations of risk.
    Kelly Cordes, Outside Online, 13 June 2018
  • Stephen Sondheim has proven to be one of the most unsolvable of the greatest composers in musical theater history.
    David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
  • So many things in life are kind of unsolvable and therefore, at a certain point, incredibly tiresome.
    David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The snake problem in Florida is not going away anytime soon and, sadly, could be unsolvable.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The camouflage remained an unsolvable problem: among the sparse palm trees, the tents, like the missiles, were impossible to conceal.
    Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2023

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