How to Use unviable in a Sentence

unviable

adjective
  • The mill amassed debts, and the business was deemed unviable.
    — Mary Ilyushina and Fred Pleitgen, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Critics say some of the projects may turn out to be white elephants — unviable pet projects.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • That can make a new business concept unviable.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Discard any older, unviable seeds that have floated to the top of the water.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The design would make the street unviable for the large floats and processions featured in the parade.
    — Troy Smith, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The couple soon found that while there was demand for eggs, the high cost of chicken feed was making the egg business unviable.
    — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Grape varieties that flourished here for hundreds of years may soon become unviable.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Knocking out many of those genes in the flies either made the insects unviable or gave them various defects.
    — Hannah Seo, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Brandt needed to abort the unviable fetus in order to increase the other twin’s chance of survival.
    — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 22 June 2023
  • The hospital has not disposed of any unviable embryos, Liu said.
    — Ginger Christ and Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • This could make the project as a whole unviable, resulting in it simply never deploying.
    — Eric Siegel, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Over a dozen states effectively ban payday loans by imposing tight rate caps that make the business unviable.
    — Yuka Hayashi, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The paucity of charging stations, however, renders this plan unviable — at least for now.
    — Jim Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
  • Another was whole, but never hatched; the tumble rendered the embryo unviable.
    — Hannah Gavin, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
  • That left the company with a huge global overhang of unviable property leases.
    — The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The 7pm slot is unusual but is a league contingency when other kick-off times are unavailable or unviable.
    — Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
  • But the policy made the scheme unviable because the open-market dwellings could no longer subsidise the affordable ones, the company says.
    — The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • In fact, the ministry of road transport and highways has already warned that the soaring steel prices are making infrastructure projects unviable.
    — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2021
  • While other business verticals moved quickly to air freight, the bulk, weight, and size of furniture made that option unviable for most merchants.
    — Kaleigh Moore, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Extreme weather events from droughts to heat waves affect crop yields and their nutritional value, and some crops will become unviable in certain areas.
    — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But what sustained the community in the 20th century proved unviable in the 21st as milk prices dropped.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Ukraine has argued that Russia’s port blockade and launching of missiles from the Black Sea made any shipments unviable.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2022
  • Last week, a lawmaker triggered a firestorm with her legally unviable attempt to suspend Petro until after the election.
    — Ines Capdevila, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • In the late 1990s, the Netherlands planned to import water from the fjords of Norway, but that, too, proved unviable.
    — Ole Ellekrog, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
  • This is unsurprising since, during the busiest periods on Ethereum, gas fees can reach hundreds of dollars, making the network unviable for many.
    — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2022
  • And that model is proving increasingly unviable.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 6 May 2026
  • Primaries should theoretically weed out unviable candidates, but that didn’t happen last time.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • That created uncertainty about whether some plans would be financially unviable, the company said.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Thirty-six percent of companies in the survey said their businesses would be unviable without access to EU workers.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The wine tariffs doubled or tripled its price and made the Chinese market unviable for exporters, the Australian government had said earlier.
    — NBC News, 19 June 2021

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