How to Use unworkable in a Sentence

unworkable

adjective

• And even though all those around them find the idea strange and unworkable, the Bottoms give it a shot.
  — Punch Shaw, star-telegram, 12 Jan. 2018
• One of his plans passed in 2006, but it was repealed by the City Council as unworkable.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 7 June 2018
• The way we are told to search for love is fairly inhumane and unworkable.
  — Jessica Goodman, ELLE, 11 Feb. 2022
• Does the N-word lapse suggest such a model is unworkable?
  — Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 20 July 2023
• Some of the demands on the table are frankly unworkable, and Democrats aren’t exactly in the mood to cede their path, either.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
• But these options have been set aside as unworkable, the people said.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• This combo is unworkable in your lap, but works just fine on a tabletop.
  — Christopher Null, WIRED, 21 July 2017
• Carl had been accepted to Notre Dame, for instance, but even at 1960s rates, the price seemed unworkable.
  — Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
• The city had intended to move it across the street, but that location proved unworkable.
  — David Ibata, ajc, 15 Jan. 2020
• But if yours leak butter or the dough becomes sticky and unworkable, do not despair.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2020
• Parents saw this as unworkable and akin to school closure.
  — Bethany Barnes, OregonLive.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's plans have been widely attacked in Britain as unworkable, and amount to a painful split of the royal family.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
• Opponents fear the law would lead to suppression of free speech and will prove unworkable.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2018
• This second failure of Trumpcare is proof positive that the core of the bill is unworkable.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 18 July 2017
• That sounds unworkable, and this is usually the kind of thinking behind those who claim the grid won’t handle EVs.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
• Bielsa had been their first-choice to take over following the dismissal of Frank Lampard, but his plan for the job was unworkable.
  — Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• Elliott said that idea proved unworkable and has been abandoned.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
• And running quarterbacks are unworkable in the new NFL.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2018
• Drescher quickly shot it down as unworkable, but the back-and-forth exposed a rift between the guild and many of its most famous members.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
• Coach Kasper Hjulmand said the team had decided that facing the prospect of returning the next day was unworkable.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2021
• The Palestinians and their backers in the Arab world rejected it as unworkable.
  — NBC News, 28 Jan. 2020
• Opponents said the tax is unworkable and could drive away wealthy people who already pay a large share of state taxes.
  — Jimmy Vielkind, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
• Gorsuch argued that test was unworkable and wasn't based in the statute's text and suggested the case could be sent back to the appeals court for further review.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
• Working on the former is hard enough, and linking the two will lead to unworkable policies based on wishful thinking.
  — Katharine H.s. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2017
• Trump has for weeks sought to paint Biden’s climate policies as too aggressive and unworkable.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2020
• But turning that into a column of the same number of cards—with no hover state—is simply unworkable.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Some of your plans could prove a bit wishful and unworkable, so reach out to friends and co-workers for their realistic input.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 1 July 2019
• Citizens have opted for politicians that claim to improve their lives through false and unworkable laws that in the end will leave them in poverty and despair.
  — Cincinnati.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• When her plan for a federal ban on price gouging was rejected by economists as unworkable, her advisers downplayed the idea.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
• The Biden administration today is taking new steps to make insurers cover mental health on a par with physical health, rekindling a fight with health plans that say such requirements are unworkable amid a shortage of providers.
  — Maya Goldman, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024