How to Use unsellable in a Sentence

unsellable

adjective
  • This leads to a waste of time and money to scale an unsellable product.
    — Bhaskar Ahuja, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Even the smallest amount of a male plant’s pollen can seed a whole crop, and pot with seeds is unsellable.
    — Brontez Purnell, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Pieces the Reich deemed unsellable were consigned to the fire.
    — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
  • When Britain’s ban on its ivory trade becomes law, these too could become unsellable and, in a sense, worthless.
    — Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The bill also addresses concerns by dealers about having unsellable cars and trucks on their lots.
    — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The store deemed all of the items in her cart unsellable due to cross-contamination, the employee said.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The vast suburban homes of boomers and Gen X-ers were forecast to become unsellable.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Leaving a wet plant on the book table or placing it, even for a moment, on a linen tablecloth in the gift section makes items unsellable.
    — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2026
  • These problems can cause delays, increase costs and sometimes make the property unsellable.
    — Stephen Nalley, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Over decades, that reaction can cause the concrete to crack and crumble, making some homes unsellable and unlivable.
    — Susan Haigh, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
  • Could a winery afford grape purchases and production expenses on a wine that might be unsellable?
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Over the past few years, unsellable hand sanitizer has been accumulating at sites across the nation.
    — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Nonetheless, some farmers have been culling sick cows to avoid widespread cases and the potential of infected, unsellable milk.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 6 June 2024
  • The villa is also reportedly in ruins and unsellable, and would require a great deal of remodeling to be habitable.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The unsellable marijuana products will be quarantined for 72 hours, mixed with shredded paper and water and sent to a landfill.
    — Julia Sclafani, sacbee, 28 June 2018
  • In his role as a progressive surrogate, Biden was unable to honestly sell to voters the Left’s unsellable agenda.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The reverse supply chain is another matter, with a chaotic and unpredictable mix of products from like-new to those that are unsellable flowing in a wide range of directions.
    — Alan Amling and Thomas Goldsby, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Android OEMs seem to all believe that small phone designs are unsellable, and if that's true, there's really nothing to worry about.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Was the merchandise up for grabs for Netflix employees a sign of unsellable surplus, or a routine invitation for staff to sample the products?
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Ever since the Reagan revolution, Democrats have had a sickening feeling that their core idea about government is unsellable.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • The thieves tried to convince the victim to remove the Activation Lock feature that made her iPhone unusable and unsellable.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 16 Aug. 2022
  • For the Hollywood of the seventies and eighties, the Victors of the world were unrecognizable—and unsellable—types.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • In each case, Black families had little choice but to leave, giving up not only their houses, which pollution had rendered unsellable, but also their community.
    — Anya Groner, The Atlantic, 7 May 2021
  • Unlike housing market crashes, where property values usually bounce back, these homes will be unusable (and unsellable) forever.
    — Alex Harris, miamiherald, 18 June 2018
  • Few expected this outcome, since the ornate helmet in particular would have been virtually unsellable without being melted down.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • After days of relentless Israeli security inspections, the produce would end up, like the oranges, rotten and unsellable.
    — Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • How else to explain that Rover, the name of vehicles that were all but unsellable a generation ago, is swimming in investment today while haughty Jaguar finds itself on a short leash?
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The materials in the sofa are damaged, unsellable, or cut from obsolete stocks of Balenciaga clothing.
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 5 Dec. 2019
  • When brands ship unsellable inventory back to warehouses or third-party liquidators—or worse, destroy it—the financial and environmental costs are high.
    — Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That realism—unsellable on social media, but increasingly necessary—is where many millennials now find themselves.
    — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026

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