How to Use desirability in a Sentence

desirability

noun
  • That you’re stripped of your desirability, your right to take up space.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The desirability of a place is based on a whole bundle of things.
    — Walter Frick, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2021
  • That’s led to the question of the desirability of the job.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • These have a huge impact on the overall desirability of your home.
    — Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Dec. 2021
  • For some women, dyeing gray hair can be one way to retain a sense of desirability.
    — Madeleine Holden, Allure, 11 July 2017
  • This may change your husband’s ideas about the desirability of moving back.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
  • That means prices can change according to the desirability of dates.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Ski areas often shift the prices in advance, based on desirability of the dates.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
  • And beyond this, times and tastes change, and this affects the desirability of certain styles.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
  • In a show where attraction and desirability are the name of the game, Black women have come out on top.
    — Taylor Crumpton, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • The Athletic breaks each one down and lists them by desirability.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 18 June 2021
  • But in the past few years, the Overton window of desirability has begun to shift.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • While the cost of living is high, the city made it into the top 10 for its high desirability and vast job market.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 30 Jan. 2023
  • For the performers and artists, the spaces along the pier vary greatly in desirability.
    — Joe Dworetzky, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The trees were heavily logged for their desirability as a disease- and pest-resistant wood source.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The fruit’s desirability explains why the plant has spread across continents.
    — Andrés Muedano, JSTOR Daily, 25 Mar. 2026
  • At the same time, the report highlights a sharp decline in the desirability of open office layouts.
    — Gleb Tsipursky, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • It’s not assigned to you according to your desirability to others, your value to the male gaze.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Their desirability is based on factors such as their age, patina, length, thickness, and smoothness.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This is due, in part, to the end-of-the-world setting of the show, rendering his romantic desirability as a sort of gag.
    — Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The wave of inbound migration to the city over the past five years is likely a reflection of its desirability.
    — The Courier-Journal, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Adding to this home’s desirability is its curb appeal, said Sonia Peck.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2024
  • And if anything, the burgeoning business of dupes has upped the desirability of the real thing.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 May 2026
  • The website ranked Naples fourth for desirability and third for its strong job market and high household income.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2024
  • The real desirability came from the right to own swans at all, because purchasing a swan mark was so expensive.
    — Emily Cleaver, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
  • Popularised by streetwear brands of the likes of Supreme, drops can be a way for mid-range price brands to achieve the desirability of luxury brands.
    — Benjamin Voyer, Forbes, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And the hot months reinforce how in the public sphere, bodies and desirability can be currency.
    — Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
  • In fact, some of these crabs may have had a warm welcome in mind; female ghost crabs initially judge a male’s desirability by his burrow’s entrance.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • But there is only up to a 21 percent chance that the woman a man messages will write back, and that number drops as the desirability gap widens.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
  • As if that wasn't enough, the engine architecture is beautiful to look at – with neat lines and curves across the cylinder heads adding to its desirability.
    — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023

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