How to Use unhealthful in a Sentence

unhealthful

adjective
  • While the smoke levels may not reach the level of unhealthful standards, people may notice it and smell it.
    — Mike Cruz, azcentral, 15 June 2019
  • The map is color coded to indicate whether the air is good, unhealthful or hazardous.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The map is color-coded to indicate whether the air is good, unhealthful or hazardous.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
  • Soils in cities can have high levels of toxins like heavy metals (like lead, mercury, arsenic) and other funky, unhealthful stuff.
    — The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2011
  • After the salt flats became a source of unhealthful dust pollution, the city was ordered to control the problem.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Areas near Chester are expected to receive the worst of its unhealthful effects.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In recent years, the unhealthful air has led to the cancellations and postponements of high school and college sports.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Comfort foods are often associated with eating that's unhealthful, but that doesn't have to be the case.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The grades are based on the number of days a county’s air reaches unhealthful levels when measuring ozone and particle pollution.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Hypertension can also be caused by lifestyle patterns, such as unhealthful eating or lack of exercise.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
  • During periods of unhealthful air quality, limit your time outdoors.
    — Washington Post, 28 July 2021
  • When the volume was high, 52 percent of the orders were unhealthful, and only 25 percent were considered healthful.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Over the last few years, similar periods of unhealthful air in SoCal were the result of massive heat waves and wildfires burning across the region.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Each year, Fresno residents withstand about 51 days — more than seven weeks — of unhealthful levels of fine particulate in the air.
    — Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022
  • Behavioral factors — unhealthful eating, a lack of exercise, smoking, and excessive use of alcohol — are among the reasons.
    — Marlon Graf, STAT, 31 May 2018
  • Risks of contaminants have to be balanced against the overall benefits of traditional foods — and the risks of replacing them with unhealthful and more processed foods, experts say.
    — Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 June 2017
  • Health professionals encourage people to use lean cuts of meat because most of the fat in animal products is unhealthful saturated fat, which can raise the risk of heart disease and cancer.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2024
  • Analyzing what children do differently during the school year compared with the summer months has led researchers to single out factors that can contribute to unhealthful weight gain.
    — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 24 June 2021
  • Racial discrimination in employment is not only unjust but unhealthful for the community.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The greater Los Angeles area has the worst ozone problem in the nation, but the number of unhealthful days is on a declining trend, with 2015 the best year so far.
    — David Danelski, Orange County Register, 18 Apr. 2017
  • Some advocates for healthful diets have argued that government should not only encourage people to buy healthier food but also discourage unhealthful habits.
    — Courtney Perkes, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2018
  • When the music was low, only 42 percent of orders were for unhealthful food, and 31 percent of food items were deemed healthful (some food and beverages were considered neutral).
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Have an effective policy of correcting unsafe or unhealthful workplace conditions.
    — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Because children are far more likely to gain an unhealthful amount of weight while out of school over the summer, experts were worried last spring when in-person schooling was suspended indefinitely because of the pandemic.
    — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 24 June 2021
  • Increased Alcohol and Tobacco Use A late-night lifestyle often goes hand-in-hand with other unhealthful behaviors.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Local governments joined Tuesday in declaring an air quality alert for Wednesday, meaning conditions might become unhealthful for sensitive groups.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • Nasrallah and Milau also recommend exercise and avoiding alcohol, tobacco and unhealthful food.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 28 May 2021
  • In recent years, research has shown cooking with a gas stove, which requires burning methane, can result in combustion byproducts, including unhealthful levels of lung-aggravating nitrogen dioxides, carbon monoxide and formaldehyde.
    — Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Although California may have its natural disasters, a large homeless population, unhealthful air quality, scorching heat waves and the promise of even higher taxes to come -- other states are not without their challenges.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2020
  • From downtown Los Angeles to the San Gabriel Valley, tens of thousands were enveloped in unhealthful levels of smoke, even as some local officials told residents that the air posed no danger.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

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