How to Use unsuited in a Sentence

unsuited

adjective
  • Here was a man utterly unsuited to the challenge, with no idea what to do.
    — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The truth is chewier and more complicated, and, perhaps, unsuited for these times.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The same attributes that propel them to power leave them wholly unsuited to wielding it.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • In some cases, the machines are unsuited to steep terrain, or to certain grape-growing styles.
    — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Mr Strange would have made a serviceable senator, but his sunny calm proved unsuited to the times.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The gas for these was also pricey, and their aesthetic felt unsuited to domesticity.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Others had spouses who were ill or temperamentally unsuited to the task.
    — Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News, 1 June 2017
  • The kind of rousing slogans that helped hype the troops before battle were completely unsuited to legislative debate.
    — Ruth Scurr, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • The brothers are both unsuited to succeed Baba for different reasons.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 28 Mar. 2025
  • And the president has outsourced key Mideast tasks to Kushner, who has proven to be woefully unsuited and in way over his head.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 5 Aug. 2017
  • On the other hand, these vehicles were amateurish and unsuited for modern warfare.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Moreover, part of the reason liberalism may look unsuited to the times is that many of its critics assail a strawman version of the theory.
    — Daniel Deudney, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
  • Those who believe the people of the Middle East unsuited to democracy may even take satisfaction their bias has been borne out by events.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Opponents say Trump is uniquely unsuited to uniting the country in times of uncertainty.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Despite playing in a more unsuited role at wing-back given his defensive weaknesses, the 22-year-old is aware of the effort needed.
    — Charlotte Harpur, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The ascenders and descenders are consequently short; in her view that gives the font a clinical, businesslike air unsuited to fiction.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The upcoming pattern promises to bring the same to a region that’s uniquely unsuited to handle such intense temperatures.
    — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • The locations were oftentimes unsuited to house families immediately and the state had to spend money to upgrade the sites.
    — Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 3 July 2024
  • At average levels of glyphosate exposure, pregnancy was one day shorter and birthweight was 1oz lighter than in counties unsuited to growing crops with glyphosate.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Amorim will not bend even when his midfield consists of Christian Eriksen and Casemiro and is therefore wildly unsuited to his desires.
    — Rory Smith, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • That wing is reserved for prisoners considered unsuited to be among the prison’s general population, usually out of fears for their own safety.
    — Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Despite this partisan decision, these uniquely unsuited men and women remain the most powerful people in the country.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Even once the big-name brands recognized the needs of those with darker complexions, their offerings were minimal at best or persistently unsuited to their customers at worst.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The phonics method of converting each letter to a particular sound is totally unsuited to the English language.
    — Marion Blank, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2023
  • People who’ve spent their lives working within a system of laws and civic institutions may be particularly unsuited to respond to that system’s failure.
    — Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The safety evaluations that AI labs run before releasing new models are often opaque and unsuited to capture real-world risk.
    — Stephen D. Turner, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Most are generally unsuited to the environments in which they will be grown, and require the kind of coddling that produces greater environmental and financial costs.
    — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Charles is such a classic example of this—an entitled, self-pitying man who was entirely unsuited to the kind of relationship that Diana demanded.
    — Rachel Burchfield, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The fact that Nora and Hae Sung are unsuited to each other contradicts Cohen’s passionate regret.
    — Armond White, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Chaudrey Zawar Hussein always seemed comically unsuited to the vehicle, a tall man with steel-gray hair, never smiling.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021

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