How to Use unscalable in a Sentence

unscalable

adjective
  • As unscalable as this sounds, emails, posts on social media and even letters may not work in this case.
    — Expert Panel, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The site is also surrounded by unscalable black fences that curl outward at the top.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 June 2022
  • But the final concussion at first appeared as an unscalable wall.
    — Greg Levinsky, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Scores of protesters descended on the court after the leak and an eight-foot, unscalable fence was erected around the building.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • This may seem unscalable because no one has time to connect with all customer champions at such a deep personal level.
    — Trinity Nguyen, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Long gone are the days of unscalable on-premises databases or difficult-to-manage Hadoop clusters.
    — Bruno Aziza, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • This model is slow, error-prone and unscalable with experience often depending on who picks up the phone.
    — Anant Agarwal, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • That night, protesters, armed with signs and bullhorns, flocked to the high court, and officials soon ringed the historic building with an unscalable fence.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • Judgment, sequencing, and context—long considered unscalable—can now be captured and shared.
    — John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • What was once a sharper phenotypic optimum turns into a narrow and unscalable gully.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2010
  • But these methods are untrusted, unscalable, and prone to manipulation.
    — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Businesses growing in unscalable ways and pouring money into sales and marketing are feeling the pain of markdowns on their future valuations.
    — Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Erected in January, the fence is 7 feet high, made of black metal mesh, and is supposedly unscalable – its openings purposely too small for a toehold.
    — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2021
  • The technology is thus far unscalable and expensive, but remains a favorite tool of the oil and gas industry to justify continued use of oil and gas, as the world works to transition away from oil and gas.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Most farmers, though concerned about increasing pesticide use, saw organic farming as unscalable and ruinously expensive.
    — Shely Aronov, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Waiting for a single, exceptional genius who can bear all the weight on their shoulders is inherently unscalable, limiting the potential for innovation and growth.
    — Tom Chavez, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • VisionX is one opportunity to go back to the roots of communication and start fresh, rather than pursue ultimately unsustainable and unscalable advances of more of the same.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Juanita fell victim to what advocates for court reform say is a criminal justice system that routinely turns a traffic infraction into an unscalable mountain of debt for thousands of low-income Ohio drivers.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Reaching the German stronghold required an assault on 1,500-foot-high Riva Ridge, which the enemy considered to be unscalable.
    — Dan Leeth, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2017
  • The point is that procedural generation systems still require massive human supervision; developers must keep vigilant for unscalable crevasses or monstrous trees.
    — WIRED, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The Capitol complex, typically a hive of activity, remained cut off from its surroundings Sunday night by troop deployments and an imposing scrim of seven-foot-tall, unscalable fencing.
    — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2021
  • These individuals navigate an unscalable tangle of federal, state and local laws manually, leading to a patchwork of PDFs, spreadsheets, emails and phone calls.
    — Anant Agarwal, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • However, manually replying to each interaction is unscalable.
    — Max Koziolek, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Those projects have come under increasing scrutiny from environmentalists like Lennon, who said carbon removal technology is currently unscalable and extremely expensive.
    — Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023

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