How to Use unusable in a Sentence

unusable

adjective
  • This room shows design doesn’t have to be stuffy and unusable.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The lake is used for recreation, and most of the boat ramps would be unusable for up to a month.
    — Andrew Selsky, ajc, 17 Mar. 2021
  • That and other damage left the place unusable for the last five months.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The prison yard has become unusable due to drug use in front of guards and cameras.
    — Jeff Kaufman, Time, 30 May 2025
  • At the start of that month, a sewer backup made the kitchen unusable.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • If the room is unusable, let the hotel know and give it a chance to fix the problem.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 3 June 2022
  • The fire left its sanctuary unusable for more than six years.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2024
  • At some point, the process would render all of near-Earth space unusable.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Much of the film turned out to be unusable and later, a fire destroyed more sets and props.
    — Katherine Yamada, Glendale News-Press, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Our goal is to hire a seamstress who can re-create things for us from those unusable items.
    — Sandra Barrera, Daily News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The world has rendered more than a third of its arable land unusable in the last 40 years.
    — Erik Fyrwald, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The parts that are truly unusable go to a nearby farm to be fed to the chickens.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • If those same toys have become sunburnt, cracked, frayed, or unusable, pitch them.
    — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Inside, Supras of the past did sport four seats, even if the rears were cramped and unusable by adults.
    — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Many of the family’s tractors are unusable, and all of their trucks are a loss.
    — Audrey McAvoy, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2018
  • Winter makes the beautiful tiny porch unusable for six months of the year.
    — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Has a guest ever brought an idea that was just totally unusable?
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In my own tests, opening web pages were slower at the reduced speed, but not unusable.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
  • Wrestlers at the edge of the ring would be in the shadow of the light, making the photos unusable.
    — John Kuntz, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2021
  • When the flags are ripped down, the poles holding them up are also destroyed and left unusable.
    — Samuel O’Neal, Idaho Statesman, 24 June 2024
  • The good news is that shoppers won’t suddenly be stuck with unusable coins.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Most of the exercise machines in the weight room were unusable.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2020
  • His cleats had been stolen, and the rest of his equipment had been covered in protein shakes and was unusable.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Broken items, items past their prime, or anything that's just plain unusable can go into the trash.
    — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The stove was missing burners and appeared to be unusable.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The windshield is well forward and the doors are so far away that the armrests are nearly unusable.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The upper one-third of the lake could be unusable for recreation by the end of this century.
    — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In the future, even those limited features might go away to the point where the app would be unusable.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 15 May 2021
  • The good news is that the import process doesn’t render your device unusable or anything like that.
    — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2018
  • The spoon was placed in an automotive drop-off spot, making the path unusable.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 22 June 2018

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