How to Use unavailable in a Sentence

unavailable

adjective
  • And what process change makes the old way unavailable?
    — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • It’s now been unavailable for two weeks.
    — Matt O’Brien, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • It's now been unavailable for two weeks.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 June 2026
  • The girls have showed up and showed out, with many of the styles unavailable.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Luis Suarez has been unavailable since last fall.
    — Miami Herald, 6 May 2026
  • Your favorite cold medicine for a stuffy nose may soon be unavailable.
    — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The other stepped in when my mother was unavailable due to work.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
  • If both teams are unavailable, the game would be declared a no contest.
    — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Rights issues have left the movie out of print and unavailable via streaming for years.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
  • If unavailable, ask your butcher to thinly slice it for you.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The first one, which is well known, is to store calories for a later time when food is unavailable.
    — Richard Johnson, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Milk and dairy products are unavailable.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • While most stores will remain open, some services will be unavailable.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • The singer’s biggest albums have been unavailable for a decade.
    — Dan Rys, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2021
  • There was certain drama that was unavailable to us.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The ages and identities of the dead were unavailable.
    — Brittany Kubicko, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2025
  • That was no longer an option, though, with others unavailable.
    — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Porter’s boyfriend, whose name was unavailable late Monday, has not been linked to the case.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The mayor was told by agents at the gate the secretary was unavailable to meet.
    — Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • It was built by playing teams when their star players were injured and unavailable to play.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2022
  • How much the passing plan will change if Jones is unavailable is unclear.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Faculty at both schools were unavailable to discuss her work as an artist this week.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Then don't select them in the first round because those picks will be unavailable to you later on.
    — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Air support was unavailable due to the weather.
    — Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Future drops could have tickets to events that were unavailable or ran out during the first drops.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • When either of those two were unavailable, he was used later, picking up four saves along the way.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Because the use of the drug for weight loss is so new, data on the long-term effects is unavailable.
    — Sarah Sloat, Health, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Most had no idea that summit services would be unavailable and that the state park was closed for the season.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The victim — whose age was unavailable — was shot in his lower left thigh, police said.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Her lawyers said Lipps was unavailable to speak for an interview.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026

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