How to Use unusable in a Sentence

unusable

adjective

• The space was left charred and for the most part unusable.
  — Phillip Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2021
• Wrestlers at the edge of the ring would be in the shadow of the light, making the photos unusable.
  — John Kuntz, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2021
• The lake is used for recreation, and most of the boat ramps would be unusable for up to a month.
  — Andrew Selsky, ajc, 17 Mar. 2021
• If the room is unusable, let the hotel know and give it a chance to fix the problem.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 3 June 2022
• The world has rendered more than a third of its arable land unusable in the last 40 years.
  — Erik Fyrwald, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2021
• Inside, Supras of the past did sport four seats, even if the rears were cramped and unusable by adults.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2020
• Much of the film turned out to be unusable and later, a fire destroyed more sets and props.
  — Katherine Yamada, Glendale News-Press, 5 Sep. 2019
• That and other damage left the place unusable for the last five months.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
• The freeze rendered half of the more than $600 billion in Putin’s war chest unusable.
  — Josh Boak, Chron, 20 Mar. 2022
• At some point, the process would render all of near-Earth space unusable.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• This room shows design doesn’t have to be stuffy and unusable.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2019
• His kitchen was nearly unusable; the oven couldn’t be opened because of the piles, and there was a bookcase in the middle of the room.
  — Camille Baker, Curbed, 5 Apr. 2021
• Wood said almost all of their rods and reels were unusable.
  — Brian Broom, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean all lashes are dirty and unusable.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
• His cleats had been stolen, and the rest of his equipment had been covered in protein shakes and was unusable.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• Most of the exercise machines in the weight room were unusable.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2020
• At idle, the mirrors vibrate so hard as to be unusable.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 1 May 2021
• The windshield is well forward and the doors are so far away that the armrests are nearly unusable.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 17 Sep. 2020
• When the flags are ripped down, the poles holding them up are also destroyed and left unusable.
  — Samuel O’Neal, Idaho Statesman, 24 June 2024
• Some locals said that when the beach gets crowded, like on the weekends, the toilets are full and unusable.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• In the future, even those limited features might go away to the point where the app would be unusable.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 15 May 2021
• Winter makes the beautiful tiny porch unusable for six months of the year.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2023
• For life to evolve, a planet needs a source of usable energy (the Sun in the case of Earth) and a sink for unusable waste heat (for us, the cold of space).
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 4 Feb. 2020
• SpaceX fixed the toilet on the capsule awaiting liftoff, but deemed the one in orbit unusable.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2021
• Case in point: the app for Apple Music is unusable but there’s a workaround.
  — Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Fighting has rendered the mine unusable for the time being.
  — Justin Ling, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
• But unbeknownst to either of us, the now large gap in her dress where the missing button should have been made the take unusable.
  — Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
• Less appetizing are the fish heads, bones and unusable parts from the whole fish filleted in the kitchen.
  — Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2022
• Many might write off the space, saying lower, angled ceilings make the room unusable, but not Welch.
  — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2024
• After the cargo was loaded, a fuel pump issue was discovered that made the plane unusable, the spokesperson said.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024