How to Use unwatchable in a Sentence

unwatchable

adjective
  • By no means does that ranking make the film bad or not good or unwatchable.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
  • There’s gonna be times, there’s gonna be some tough games, there’s gonna be some unwatchable games.
    — Nick Friedell, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • All that can go wrong does go wrong, and the process is both compelling and close to unwatchable.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2017
  • That includes a product on the field that is at times unwatchable.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2017
  • If its structure and script were as unhinged as its style, the film might have been unwatchable.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The turnovers are what truly make this team almost unwatchable in fourth quarters.
    — William Guillory, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The must-watch team at the start of the season has grown into, most days, something unwatchable.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2021
  • There’s no denying that recent matchups have been nearly unwatchable.
    — Mike Tanier, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The Phillies needed just five weeks to go from intriguing to unwatchable.
    — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 1 June 2017
  • Honestly, that was a perfect time for the most unwatchable Jazz game.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
  • This might end up being the perfect ending, or a unwatchable nightmare.
    — SI.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • This was coming off a first season that was so unwatchable that even the network president trashed it.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • Schoen is equally culpable for the unwatchable product on the field.
    — Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • This could be a potentially unwatchable matchup and the under is a tempting play here.
    — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The games were called unwatchable by many, which was not a god way for the league to be viewed in its annual showcase of its best players.
    — Jason Jones, sacbee, 18 Feb. 2018
  • The bubble was, by even the most faithful bubble watchers, unwatchable.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Mar. 2026
  • No, the Blackhawks are literally unwatchable for a huge swath of their fans.
    — Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Looking for a great — or at least not unwatchable — new Christmas movie for some last-minute holiday cheer?
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Day, mesmerizing in her first leading role (though the movie is almost unwatchable).
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The third quarter may have been darn near unwatchable, but this was a professional win for Denver.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
  • From the unwatchable to the must-see, here are all nine A Nightmare on Elm Street movies, ranked.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2022
  • For long stretches of the last three seasons, the Sixers and Lakers have been unwatchable.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 23 June 2017
  • Suns fans watched their team not just miss the post-season the previous 10 years, but become unwatchable for many seasons.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
  • Music forms one of the overarching themes of both the book and the play, and without it the two-part production would be unwatchable.
    — Glenn Sumi, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
  • But Joker seems to make the mistakes of those films tenfold, and the first act was virtually unwatchable to me.
    — Samantha Allen, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Until the fourth quarter, the Lions were a borderline unwatchable team.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The entire encounter made Whitfield unwatchable from now on and revealed a colorist dynamic among the rest of the group.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Above all, it's become just unwatchable, insufferable and full of virtue-signaling.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • The Last Man on Earth, there’s no hard and fast rule for why some parts are incredible and others unwatchable.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2021
  • For most people, this was unwatchable, a grab-the-remote, change-the-channel moment in a forum that in past election years has served the country well.
    — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2020

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