How to Use unrecoverable in a Sentence

unrecoverable

adjective
  • By the time the offline assay confirmed what the cells were doing, hours had passed, and the batch was unrecoverable.
    — Hamid Noori, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The boat sank at the tip of the Umpqua River Jetty and is deemed unrecoverable for now.
    — oregonlive.com, 5 July 2019
  • Older adults, meanwhile, are often assumed to be on a downward slope with unrecoverable loss.
    — Rachel Wu, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
  • This leads to what may be a unrecoverable confession from Emma that adds tension to the lead-up to their nuptials.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Time is scarce and unrecoverable, unlike money.
    — Brian Page, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Internal polling can even be used to push opponents to drop out, showing unrecoverable levels of support.
    — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • His criticism, of course, comes at a crucial juncture for his campaign, where missing the debate stage could prove unrecoverable.
    — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Thomson collects intact bags, officials said, but the contents of unrecoverable bags that have been hit by cars are left to wash into drainage ditches.
    — oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2020
  • In that case, Mexican democracy would not only have lost many unrecoverable years.
    — Enrique Krauze, The New York Review of Books, 2 July 2020
  • The system malfunctioned in both crashes, sending the planes into unrecoverable nose dives.
    — David Gelles, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The company was initially told the money was unrecoverable, but was eventually able to claw it back.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2019
  • There are bigger, deeper, and likely unrecoverable losses ahead for the world’s largest venture-capital fund.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The follow-on of more non-family-values-friendly stories might well have begun an unrecoverable spiral.
    — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • All bear, or sought, the traces of the Beatles’ aura, but their identities and motives remain, like so much of the past, unrecoverable.
    — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
  • There is a huge risk that a person will panic in a normal bear market downturn of 40% and sell out, incurring unrecoverable losses.
    — Larry Light, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • As noted earlier, two of the visits resulted in the logs the researchers relied on being unrecoverable.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Once the air is thin enough, the fairing splits off and descends back to Earth, usually unrecoverable, and certainly unusable.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 4 July 2019
  • Radiographs showed that the injury was unrecoverable and she was euthanized.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Fast forward forty or fifty years and a similarly disastrous decision might be unrecoverable.
    — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 24 May 2021
  • Baylor ended this game controlling the ball for over 40 minutes, putting Texas Tech in an unrecoverable deficit.
    — Dallas News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The injury to the Kentucky Derby hopeful was said to be unrecoverable, and he was euthanized.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2023
  • Only the heart’s memory, a delicate thread that binds us to eternity, tries to recover the unrecoverable — the fleeting moment with its mood, colors, and sounds.
    — Andriy Sodomora (tr. Sabrina Jaszi & Roman Ivashkiv), The Dial, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The Red Raiders went into the timeout with a 28-9 lead, a lead that would put Montana State in an unrecoverable deficit.
    — Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2022
  • On match days, the squad is a hotchpotch of bright sparks scrambling around to recover an unrecoverable ambiance only 17 seasons of the Argentine’s flair can bring.
    — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • With the Red Raiders unable to do anything to slow down the Longhorns’ defense, their lifelessness of offense dug them in an unrecoverable ditch way too early into this game.
    — Ryan Mainville, Dallas News, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Newsom’s political future is tied now to what the image evokes for tens of millions of Californians, the tenuous hope ahead or the unrecoverable loss of the past year.
    — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
  • It was pronounced unrecoverable.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The Sooners finished the game shooting a scorching 13-of-28 from deep, which put Texas Tech into an unrecoverable hole.
    — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • While the researchers were able to reconstruct almost all of the Christmas Island rat's genome, almost 5 percent of it was unrecoverable, according to the study.
    — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Like Brady in the latter half of the Patriots dynasty, Mahomes benefits from an outgoing, unrecoverable tight end.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023

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