How to Use unsuitable in a Sentence

unsuitable

adjective
  • The state purchased the area in 1929 after settlers cleared much of the land for farming but found the soil unsuitable.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
  • In 2019, Taste of Oak Brook was canceled because of heavy rains the night before, which left the grounds unsuitable to host.
    Staff Report, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Most of the land is unsuitable for constructing new launch pads or hangars.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 5 July 2024
  • Most of the land is unsuitable for constructing new launch pads or hangars.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In the case of unsuitable weather, the event will simply move inside.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Four years later, the weather was blustery, and the ice on Fowler Lake was deemed unsuitable.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2018
  • In people who have the condition, the tissue grows outside the uterus, in all sorts of unsuitable places.
    Lucia Osborne-Crowley, refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • On the other hand, the candidate could get stuck with an unsuitable schedule, so this risk has to be weighed.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Prowse's West Country English accent was thought to be unsuitable for the part.
    Angela Dewan and Samantha Beech, CNN, 29 Nov. 2020
  • His age also makes him unsuitable to go back to work, according to the Facebook post.
    Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
  • Much of the Chilean interior is hot and dry and unsuitable for wines of finesse and freshness.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Those trees tend to be less valuable, unsuitable for lumber milling.
    AZCentral.com, 21 June 2022
  • Willow trees take about 15 years to mature to the point where they can be harvested for bats, and around 20% of the wood ends up being unsuitable and thrown away.
    Brian Owens | Inside Science, ABC News, 23 May 2021
  • Sure, Wynn himself is unsuitable to hold a casino license in this state.
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • And not unsuitable for an island that’s barely even there and a delta that probably isn’t.
    Michelle Weber, Longreads, 3 July 2018
  • Most of the water used to make a typical glass of wine is lost to evaporation, with a small amount stored in the grapes, and the rest unsuitable for reuse.
    National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The property is also open to the public on Mondays or when the weather is unsuitable for golf.
    Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
  • This is the reality of the Holocaust — the murder of 6 million Jews and millions more who the Nazis judged unsuitable for their Aryan reich.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • The site is unsuitable for construction, so any new project is reliant on the city spending tens of millions of dollars to get the land suitable for sale.
    Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • They were deemed unsuitable to bear children and were sometimes refused housing and food.
    Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
  • That set of performance tires is a $200 upgrade but would be unsuitable for winter use.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
  • While there would be many reasons for Camilla’s relationship with Prince Charles to be deemed unsuitable, a lack of blue blood was not among them.
    Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 17 July 2022
  • Both appalled at the unsuitable clothing in my suitcase.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 5 Sep. 2024
  • During its early days, the group went through a bunch of them, most eventually deemed unsuitable.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2021
  • The Corn Belt is on track to become unsuitable for corn cultivation by 2100, and the level of aflatoxins in corn is set to increase.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Guanin said single days off are an unsuitable replacement for the real deal.
    NBC News, 5 Dec. 2020
  • That complexity is often what makes them unsuitable as class actions in the Supreme Court’s view.
    Abbe R. Gluck, WSJ, 7 May 2018
  • The tiny lice attach themselves to salmon and feed on them, killing or rendering them unsuitable for dinner tables.
    Patrick Whittle, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Global climate change will make some places unsuitable for growing coffee even if bees are still present.
    Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
  • And mercury, by its nature, is unsuitable for making things.
    The Economist, 4 July 2019

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'unsuitable.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: