How to Use unsolvable in a Sentence

unsolvable

adjective
  • But this challenge is still unsolvable in the market for now.
    — Yanie Durocher, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • For many offices, this puzzle may be unsolvable, at least for now.
    — Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • This is not an unsolvable problem.
    — Mary Eber, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This leaves scientists with what is, for now, an unsolvable equation.
    — Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Seen through that lens, there is beauty in accepting the unsolvable, and courage in a refusal to hide it.
    — Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Heim, a switch-hitter, has been almost unsolvable for lefties in a short sample this year.
    — Dallas News, 17 May 2022
  • Amanda Ripley does not like to think of any conflict as unsolvable.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2021
  • The mystery of the leader is the mystery of the unsolvable surplus.
    — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
  • Again this is likely an unsolvable problem without some real-time quick test.
    — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • For the Mariners, just making the playoffs has been an unsolvable riddle.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • Suicide is an attempt to solve a problem that appears to be unsolvable by any other means.
    — Linda Blackwell Simmons, star-telegram, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Also to his credit, the unsolvable riddle of his ancestry doesn’t tear at him.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • Ford and Tench end up in the same place as always, with Manson an unsolvable mystery.
    — Lorraine Ali, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • That way, a problem that seems unsolvable in one language can become more approachable in the other.
    — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Skill alone fully insulates no one, but skill plays a role in the nebulous, unsolvable equations of risk.
    — Kelly Cordes, Outside Online, 13 June 2018
  • This could lead to defeatism, because the problem is perceived as being out of control and unsolvable.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2020
  • So many things in life are kind of unsolvable and therefore, at a certain point, incredibly tiresome.
    — David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Why do so many novels about the Vietnam War have an unsolvable mystery at their center?
    — Kate McQuade, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Murphy has more than played his part in Newcastle looking less like an unsolvable jigsaw.
    — Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Many of them have been with us for so long that they’ve almost been normalized in Alaska, as almost unsolvable.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • But forecasting the severity of those floods is proving to be an unsolvable problem.
    — Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Such has been the unsolvable — and largely unwinnable — issue with looking back at the King of Pop’s life.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The snake problem in Florida is not going away anytime soon and, sadly, could be unsolvable.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • That this has dragged on for the entire 20 months of the pandemic and counting might suggest that this is an unsolvable crisis.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Some in Iowa now feel like they were set up to fail, tasked with solving a problem the DNC now says is unsolvable.
    — NBC News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The plan, which took three years to draft, drew skepticism ahead of its reveal as many dubbed the conflict in the region virtually unsolvable.
    — Fox News, 31 Jan. 2020
  • If the appraisal comes in low or the buyer loses his job, the loan described in the contract will not be available — perhaps an unsolvable problem.
    — Anet Tarpoff, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
  • Will the Bears give Ryan Pace another shot at solving the most unsolvable position this team has had in decades?
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Stephen Sondheim has proven to be one of the most unsolvable of the greatest composers in musical theater history.
    — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
  • For starters, the thinking goes, an underwater developer has been booted from a math problem that was unsolvable.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025

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