How to Use unsupportable in a Sentence

unsupportable

adjective
  • In this view, old loyalties were not just anachronistic but morally unsupportable.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Currah’s opinion piece is wrong on the facts, the law, and the science, and reaches unsupportable conclusions.
    — Paisley Currah, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Just be utterly unmoved by their (or anyone’s) unsupportable opinions, and keep doing your thing.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
  • For a mission then expected to only last 5 years, that was unsupportable in the view of some committee members.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Indeed, her chapter on the subject is riddled with unsupportable claims backed by dubious studies.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2013
  • Birds, for instance, have never evolved live birth, possibly because the energy cost of flying while pregnant is unsupportable.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2020
  • Leonard’s account, set down that afternoon, makes the loss immediate, unsupportable.
    — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Sooner or later, the absurdity of it all becomes unsupportable.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Aug. 2017
  • There is now a strange network of survivors, of the people bearing unsupportable sorrow as a result of gun violence, either under the color of law or not.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Aug. 2016
  • The states argued that the zeroing out of the tax penalty actually imposed costs on them, but the court said those claims were illogical and unsupportable.
    — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • The venerable but troubled outlet has been for sale since its previous owners ran up unsupportable debts and were removed in 2023.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 24 Nov. 2025
  • But remember - those recent, ultra-low mortgage rates were unsupportable in even a 2% inflationary environment, much less in the current one.
    — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • And because supplements aren't overseen by the FDA, the companies that make these supplements can get away with claiming the unsupportable.
    — Men's Health, 8 Nov. 2022
  • His claim was that when Congress eliminated the penalty for the individual mandate, the law became legally unsupportable.
    — James Moore, CNN, 23 June 2021
  • The lawsuit against Stine Seed Company is without merit and factually unsupportable.
    — Scott Berson, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
  • Not adjusting Americans’ understanding of how far and wide the disease has likely spread, perhaps to as much as 20% of the population, was once fine but soon will become unsupportable.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • But the bill’s drafters are transparently exploiting the association with a historic bill fighting racial discrimination in order to smuggle in false equivalences and unsupportable claims.
    — The Editors, National Review, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Rather than viewing childcare as an unsupportable tax burden, investing in high-quality childcare should be seen as an essential public policy and a necessary part of stimulating our struggling economy.
    — CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Due to their leadership, the company had a terrible, unsupportable business plan and compounded those issues by hiring an unsustainable workforce of 700 people.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 May 2023
  • The court rejected an emergency request by landlords and real-estate companies to clear the way for evictions after a federal judge in Washington ruled last month that the moratorium was legally unsupportable.
    — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 29 June 2021
  • To believe that a country can force wealth redistribution amid withering international competition is simply unsupportable and reckless.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Rumors of unsupportable expansion?
    — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 May 2022

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