How to Use unsuitable in a Sentence

unsuitable

adjective
  • Soils that are high in peat moss are unsuitable for citrus trees.
    — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Most of the land is unsuitable for constructing new launch pads or hangars.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 5 July 2024
  • Most of the land is unsuitable for constructing new launch pads or hangars.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Those trees tend to be less valuable, unsuitable for lumber milling.
    — AZCentral.com, 21 June 2022
  • In the case of unsuitable weather, the event will simply move inside.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And not unsuitable for an island that’s barely even there and a delta that probably isn’t.
    — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 3 July 2018
  • Global climate change will make some places unsuitable for growing coffee even if bees are still present.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Sure, Wynn himself is unsuitable to hold a casino license in this state.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Guanin said single days off are an unsuitable replacement for the real deal.
    — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2020
  • On the other hand, the candidate could get stuck with an unsuitable schedule, so this risk has to be weighed.
    — Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
  • They were deemed unsuitable to bear children and were sometimes refused housing and food.
    — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Adult laying ducks can have chicken layer pellets, but these are unsuitable for younger ducks.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Goan cobras are migrating to new and unsuitable habitats by train.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In people who have the condition, the tissue grows outside the uterus, in all sorts of unsuitable places.
    — Lucia Osborne-Crowley, refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • This position is your plan B if a toilet is unsuitable for sitting.
    — Sara Reardon, Flow Space, 10 June 2025
  • During its early days, the group went through a bunch of them, most eventually deemed unsuitable.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2021
  • Corn is an unsuitable companion plant for peppers due to its towering size.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2026
  • That doesn’t mean thousands of drugs are unsuitable for therapeutic use, although many are not ready.
    — Gabi Hanna, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • Four years later, the weather was blustery, and the ice on Fowler Lake was deemed unsuitable.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Much of the Chilean interior is hot and dry and unsuitable for wines of finesse and freshness.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The tiny lice attach themselves to salmon and feed on them, killing or rendering them unsuitable for dinner tables.
    — Patrick Whittle, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2017
  • My pier is about four feet above sea level and days with extreme high tides or seas are unsuitable as the splash prevents desiccation.
    — Guest Voices, AL.com, 29 Dec. 2017
  • The hijacker's clothing and footwear were also unsuitable for a rough landing.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 29 June 2018
  • That set of performance tires is a $200 upgrade but would be unsuitable for winter use.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The property is also open to the public on Mondays or when the weather is unsuitable for golf.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The cause was tagged to an external impact from space debris, rendering the craft unsuitable for a safe crew return.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Even some of the smaller daffodils find our Texas climate unsuitable to reblooming.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Prowse's West Country English accent was thought to be unsuitable for the part.
    — Angela Dewan and Samantha Beech, CNN, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Crocodiles are farmed for their meat and hides, but large and battle-scarred crocs are usually unsuitable for the handbag market.
    — Rod McGuirk, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
  • The state purchased the area in 1929 after settlers cleared much of the land for farming but found the soil unsuitable.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024

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