How to Use unenforceable in a Sentence

unenforceable

adjective
  • In too many cases, the rules are unenforceable or have large gaps.
    — Alan Wolff, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Such covenants have been unenforceable for decades, but must be removed under a four-year-old state law.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 8 Mar. 2026
  • But that’s an unenforceable goal.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • That ruling made the state law unenforceable.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And a federal judge ruled that parts of an Iowa book ban were unenforceable.
    — Svante Myrick, Sun Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Wiping away sweat with a hand should be avoided, perhaps the most unenforceable rule of them all.
    — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2020
  • Such bans have been unenforceable for the past five decades, but states could look to revive them if Roe is overturned.
    — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • Such bans have been unenforceable for the past five decades, but states could look to enact them if Roe were overturned.
    — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 26 May 2022
  • The judge, instead, should find the statute unenforceable and leave it to lawmakers to go back to the drawing board.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • But the measure is likely to make at least one vaccine mandate unenforceable.
    — Jeff Amy, ajc, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Hezbollah’s supporters say this is far-fetched, and, at best, unenforceable.
    — CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Who gets the armrests and what are the other unwritten and unenforceable rules of air travel?
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The code adopted by the court was largely panned by judicial ethics experts as weak and unenforceable.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • The bill would make many of these laws unenforceable, ending the practice in scores of communities.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And if the culture of free speech dies within the legal profession, the laws on the books will become unenforceable.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The contracts were unenforceable because the women were induced to sign them by fraud and coercion.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2020
  • About 20 states issued unenforceable guidance, and the rest did nothing.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The World Bank said in a recent report that the cap might be becoming unenforceable.
    — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The law was set to take effect July 11 but is now unenforceable while being challenged in court.
    — Jackie Borchardt, Cincinnati.com, 10 Apr. 2019
  • The lawsuit is asking that the district’s resolution be struck down by the court and that it be declared unenforceable.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 1 July 2022
  • For either to win would be an endorsement of their approach in a sport where the rules have often been unenforceable suggestions.
    — David Ubben, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Wilkins notes that even in states that have passed their own laws making noncompete agreements unenforceable, companies are still using them.
    — Andrea Hsu, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Williamson and his attorneys, meanwhile, assert that the five-year contract was unenforceable from the moment both parties signed it.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Unwritten rules are traditions, not rules, and are unenforceable.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2026
  • Opponents counter that Mauritius’s claim to the islands is weak and unenforceable.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The Supreme Court rendered that section of the law unenforceable in 2013.
    — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Advocates and some council members have expressed concerns that the new rules may be symbolic and unenforceable.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 13 May 2026
  • But the city didn’t get approval for the amendment from the board and Dallas voters, which the fund says is required by city code, making the new rule unenforceable.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The suit is dismissed and Clifford’s claims ruled moot, as the NDA had been rendered unenforceable.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 5 May 2021
  • That, as well as the Speaks Out Act that makes the nondisclosure act unenforceable, caused Grant to file the lawsuit.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024

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