How to Use unreachable in a Sentence

unreachable

adjective
  • His phone has been unreachable since that day.
    — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Farrah says that self-care shouldn’t been seen as unreachable.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2019
  • Taxi and ride-sharing apps were unreachable.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 13 May 2026
  • At school, my friends were right there in front of me but untouchable and unreachable.
    — Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
  • But there are a handful of people who seem unreachable.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The screen was a facade, mocking me with an unreachable carrot on a stick.
    — Aaron Peter, Wired, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The big parts of the field can become almost unreachable for lefties.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Many local school districts are bursting at the seams while land costs for new schools is unreachable.
    — WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Her husband, Tom, was unreachable, being on a flight at the time.
    — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 16 June 2025
  • Put yourself or your spouse on an unreachable pedestal, and you’re bound to feel lonely up there with no way to reach them.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • For decades, though, the moon’s darkest and most distant regions were thought to be unreachable.
    — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2024
  • Some of his staff had an idea of why Jacobs would be unreachable, but almost no one else in his life could know.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The great big world is really a series of small towns, and none of them is unreachable to a small-town girl with big dreams.
    — Moira Vetter, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • The world sounded muffled, like it was tucked away behind a closed door, distant and unreachable.
    — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The part that wants to keep believing there’s something unreachable inside each of us.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The Netherlands has always felt unreachable for me.
    — Essence, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In Bangladesh, one team has procured a helicopter to make drops in places unreachable by road.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • At the time this post went live, the company’s website was also unreachable.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Those who escaped the gunman were at the police station and unreachable.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2018
  • But there is a lot of work to do; much of the country is still unreachable by train, and the service often faces delays.
    — Emily Forlini, PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Earth's own metallic core is unreachable, far below the planet's rocky mantle and crust.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • The station is a few miles away but feels unreachable with no roads and infinite destruction to cross.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
  • Her home is only 26 miles away from the settlement, but feels unreachable.
    — Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The owner said in the initial call for help that the fire was unreachable with the lodge’s hose and was headed for the main building.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2020
  • Start small but be completely unreachable.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The movie just floated there, to the indifference of its guardians and the silence of an unreachable world.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The resident’s family member who has helped us in the past has been unreachable.
    — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Medicaid also foots the bill for most nursing home, long-term, and home care costs unreachable for most people.
    — Bhavya Ancha, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2025
  • But these songs took on a new feel—plaintive, yearning cries filling up a bright room somewhere unreachable across the country.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2020
  • One is reminded of the way a house is viewed from a moving car—vividly clear yet entirely unreachable.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026

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