How to Use unsustainable in a Sentence

unsustainable

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• But even most of them said the recent pace of job growth was unsustainable for long.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• That is, the way the industry has been structured over the past few years was unsustainable.
  — Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• That could push the cost of borrowing to painful highs and make the debt levels unsustainable.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• The Biden White House is making the case that China's straddle on the war is unsustainable.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• On the flip side, campus leaders have long said the freeze is unsustainable.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2022
• But the bubble the lies create is unsustainable, said Union.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• In reality, the bust simply cleared out a raft of unsustainable enterprises—Pets.com, anyone?—and set the stage for what was to come.
  — Frank Rose, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
• But the government argued that the low price was unsustainable and lifted the caps on Jan. 1.
  — NBC News, 5 Jan. 2022
• That led to a lot of greed and unsustainable business models and a lot of leverage in crypto.
  — Corrie Driebusch, WSJ, 18 June 2022
• But right now, the cost to the overall system is likely unsustainable.
  — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2024
• Kluger added that the spike in cost of food and restaurant supplies made keeping it open unsustainable.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• The concept worked for a time but was unsustainable, soldiers said.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• What a lot of my colleagues are saying is, ‘This is now unsustainable.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
• What was once one of the hottest up and coming disruptive teams in the space, quickly grew to a size that was arguably unsustainable.
  — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• But experts — both in China and abroad — have warned that the approach is unsustainable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• But if mead is to continue to grow as an industry, what’s to stop it from taking on some of the unsustainable traits of beer?
  — Tony Rehagen, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• Redzepi said that he’s come to believe that the fine-dining model is unsustainable.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 10 Jan. 2023
• Decades of drought — made worse by climate change — and unsustainable use have placed the Colorado River in peril.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• This was unsustainable as there were hose lines on the ground and operating.
  — oregonlive, 14 May 2022
• But that is a short-term, unsustainable solution that has been tried across the U.S. and around the globe – with major consequences.
  — Ali Mirchi, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2021
• But the party has the upper hand, thanks to a Biden failure at the border that may, finally, be unsustainable.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
• Child poverty is already at a level that is, to me, should be unsustainable.
  — NBC News, 8 May 2022
• The state budget the Governor signed in June is unsustainable.
  — Tom Lackey, Orange County Register, 9 July 2024
• The change amounts to about four or five hours of driving a day, commuters say, an unsustainable burden on top of a normal eight-hour workday.
  — Angus M. Thuermer Jr., Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2024
• In short, Chutkan’s order is unsustainable and shouldn’t stand.
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
• About twins who love each other deeply, but in a way that is entirely unsustainable.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2023
• Jules Koundé has stayed put at Sevilla, but continuing there is unsustainable for him and the club.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• But even some economists who bemoaned those sluggish gains at the time say the current rate of wage growth is unsustainable.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 2 June 2022
• The company also said the union’s demands for an immediate 64% wage hike, which would increase to 77% over the term of a three-year deal, would be unsustainable.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2024
• Despite what creditors might believe, this plight has far-reaching and long-lasting consequences for the entire world, not only for countries with unsustainable debt burdens.
  — Martín Abregú, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Jan 2025