How to Use unlivable in a Sentence

unlivable

adjective
  • And many homes are gone or were rendered unlivable by the storm.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Will some countries be unlivable in the years and decades to come?
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
  • Due to fire and smoke damage, their house is unlivable.
    — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Many of the homes are now unlivable, but families have nowhere else to go.
    — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2017
  • It got flooded out too many times and became unlivable.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
  • It is not seen to be a judgment by which many condemn the lives available to them as unlivable.
    — Blake Smith, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
  • For some of us, the cost of health coverage has simply made the state unlivable.
    — Author: Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Aug. 2017
  • In the worst months of summer, some places are already nearly unlivable.
    — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • Much of the nation could become unlivable in the coming decade.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2021
  • Airstrikes have made Gaza City, and much of the rest of the north, an unlivable ruin.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • They were given units that seemed unlivable — with a difficult choice.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2024
  • Critics of the problem say the hands-off approach has made some areas unlivable.
    — Fox News, 21 June 2019
  • Is its potential demise part of the move to make northern Gaza unlivable?
    — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 18 Dec. 2024
  • One of their first purchases was a travel trailer—the home was unlivable.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2019
  • That would slow the climate change that threatens, in this century, to make some cities unlivable.
    — Andrew Moore, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • For most on the island, life became almost unlivable.
    — Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
  • With so many villages unlivable, wild animals have ventured back near the towns.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
  • That can make parts of the city feel unlivable during heat waves, which are getting longer and more frequent in the region.
    — Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 23 July 2024
  • Only one unit was empty — unlivable since a fire seven years ago, according to the city.
    — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
  • The area where the woman lived was a studio apartment on the first floor, which is unlivable because of smoke damage.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2018
  • If some of the more dire predictions for sea rise come true, scientists say coastal homes will become unlivable.
    — Alex Harris and Joey Flechas, miamiherald, 28 June 2018
  • Broken windows, a hole in the kitchen floor and major structural issues made the home unlivable.
    — cleveland, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The house has been unlivable for more than a decade, and discussions about what to do with the property have been ramping up.
    — Willie James Inman, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • This was the case for Don Young's house and the home of his parents in-laws, whose houses are now unlivable.
    — The Courier-Journal, 31 July 2022
  • They are now displaced, even though their home survived because of the toxins that rendered their home unlivable.
    — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • Water damage in the living areas caused by the water used on the attic fire made the home unlivable.
    — courant.com, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Now Russia’s air campaign is making the city unlivable.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 27 June 2026
  • By midmorning, the second building was no longer on fire, but the damage had rendered much of it unlivable.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The journey begins or doesn’t begin long before the land no longer yields or the climate becomes unlivable.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Nearly half were completely destroyed, or were damaged enough to be deemed unlivable.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2026

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