How to Use unsupportable in a Sentence

unsupportable

adjective
  • The states argued that the zeroing out of the tax penalty actually imposed costs on them, but the court said those claims were illogical and unsupportable.
    Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • There is now a strange network of survivors, of the people bearing unsupportable sorrow as a result of gun violence, either under the color of law or not.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Aug. 2016
  • Just be utterly unmoved by their (or anyone’s) unsupportable opinions, and keep doing your thing.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
  • In this view, old loyalties were not just anachronistic but morally unsupportable.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Birds, for instance, have never evolved live birth, possibly because the energy cost of flying while pregnant is unsupportable.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2020
  • Not adjusting Americans’ understanding of how far and wide the disease has likely spread, perhaps to as much as 20% of the population, was once fine but soon will become unsupportable.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Unquestionably, the individual burden of medical costs in the U.S. can be unsupportable and, in the richest country in the world, should be unnecessary.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Huge price declines from exciting, but unsupportable highs.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Leonard’s account, set down that afternoon, makes the loss immediate, unsupportable.
    Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Sooner or later, the absurdity of it all becomes unsupportable.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Aug. 2017
  • But remember - those recent, ultra-low mortgage rates were unsupportable in even a 2% inflationary environment, much less in the current one.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • His claim was that when Congress eliminated the penalty for the individual mandate, the law became legally unsupportable.
    James Moore, CNN, 23 June 2021
  • Alberto Gallo of Algebris, an investment firm, estimates that yields would have to be at least 4-4.5% for several months before higher coupon payments would make debt unsupportable.
    The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • Eventually the costs to make repairs becomes unsupportable.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • EFF lawyers wrote in Thursday's letter that Zillow's accusations were frivolous and unsupportable.
    Brian Fung, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • The lawsuit against Stine Seed Company is without merit and factually unsupportable.
    Scott Berson, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
  • The court rejected an emergency request by landlords and real-estate companies to clear the way for evictions after a federal judge in Washington ruled last month that the moratorium was legally unsupportable.
    Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 29 June 2021
  • But the bill’s drafters are transparently exploiting the association with a historic bill fighting racial discrimination in order to smuggle in false equivalences and unsupportable claims.
    The Editors, National Review, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Rather than viewing childcare as an unsupportable tax burden, investing in high-quality childcare should be seen as an essential public policy and a necessary part of stimulating our struggling economy.
    CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • To believe that a country can force wealth redistribution amid withering international competition is simply unsupportable and reckless.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019

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