How to Use unverifiable in a Sentence

unverifiable

adjective
  • That means there are a lot of unverifiable claims made by people with large followings.
    — Riley McDermid, Boston Herald, 25 Feb. 2025
  • What the United States has gained is vague and unverifiable at best.
    — Byron Tau, WSJ, 12 June 2018
  • Many are unverifiable — who decides whether a building is haunted?
    — Rachel Leingang, azcentral, 20 June 2018
  • Tran thinks kids now and in the future need to know how to evaluate sources and discern opinion or unverifiable assertions from pure fact.
    — Andrew Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • His public comments are often full of false claims and unverifiable assertions.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Without Manfred opening the books, the amount is unverifiable.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Agents marked most of the accusations as unverifiable or not credible.
    — Stephen Fowler, NPR, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Many of the statements were overly vague or unverifiable future projections.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 23 Apr. 2026
  • References to drug use, though unverifiable, abound in the historical record.
    — Amina Khan, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • What would happen if women did start throwing around the kind of unverifiable statements that characterize classic ‘cheap talk’?
    — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • The day brought a slew of reports of electoral shenanigans, most of them unverifiable — ballot boxes spirited away, dead people voting.
    — Will Englund, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • If past documents are incomplete, unverifiable or incorrect, no one will likely pay top dollar for your business.
    — Joseph Safina, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Alterations made to an email after it has been sent cause the cryptographic signatures to become unverifiable.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Amazon removed more than 1 million products that made fake or unverifiable claims about the coronavirus from its online retailer last month.
    — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Articles bounce around social media, one as plausible-looking as the other, unverifiable or bunk news mixed in with the real stuff, and no one knows what (or who) to believe.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 9 Dec. 2018
  • These personal, unverifiable stories have already found wide appeal on social media.
    — NBC News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The two rappers volleyed unverifiable allegations of pedophilia and domestic abuse in scathing diss tracks, but beneath that was a war about aesthetics.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In the wake of attacks in Rakhine, there was a massive spread of fake news on Facebook, including unverifiable stories, videos, and pictures — some decades old.
    — Alice Driver, Longreads, 3 May 2018
  • No one fact-checking the government when unverifiable and damaging comments are made by a government official.
    — Alex Malm, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Several experts who reviewed the report said it was filled with misinformation and unverifiable claims pulled from social media.
    — Michael Casey, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • And while organizers admit that claim may be unverifiable, the tournament is most certainly not for the uncommitted.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Clans whose source of wealth is currently unverifiable or derives primarily from the state, such as the sprawling House of Saud, are also absent.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2018
  • The children were gathered by this institute's director, a brittle matron of unverifiable age named Maria, into lines in the commu- nity room.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Baseline emissions estimates are unverifiable claims open to broad interpretation if not outright abuse.
    — Jessica F. Green, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
  • That hope fizzled and what remains is a possible one-year extension with new, unverifiable limitations on Russia’s weapons.
    — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The United States rejected the idea, arguing that a treaty in this area would be unverifiable because whether a line of code is a weapon or not can depend on the intent of the user.
    — Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
  • There are details in all eight episodes that are based on verifiable facts, but anything unverifiable, anything that might have happened, even in Ed’s mind, is fair game for Monster, too.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Such testimony would normally be prohibited by the rule against hearsay evidence, which exists to screen out unverifiable statements.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2025
  • A lot of them originate with totally unverified, and unverifiable, posts on microblogging sites like Weibo.
    — Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Often, their claims are delivered in sweeping, unverifiable statements, and banks don’t comment publicly on individual clients.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025

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