How to Use unavoidable in a Sentence

unavoidable

adjective
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  • Some were unavoidable; the sand cleaned flesh out of the tires and the smell didn’t linger.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • That said, Gorr’s death is unavoidable in this version of the script.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 July 2022
  • For many, shift work is an unavoidable part of their job.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The first glimpse of what has now turned out to be the unavoidable tragic end to BSC came a few years back.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 29 May 2024
  • But the truth is that pain is unavoidable, and much of it will take us by surprise.
    — Remy Ramirez, Marie Claire, 9 Apr. 2021
  • And back home, the American toll of the war was unavoidable.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
  • For the shy, press-green Madison, the pitfalls are a bit unavoidable.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The key point is that, even if the actions taken over the weekend were unavoidable, this can’t be the end of the story.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Change is often very painful and scary, but an unavoidable part of life.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
  • That’s not a criticism of the show so much as an unavoidable fact.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2021
  • This is unavoidable due to the structure and material of the stool.
    — Addie Morton, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2023
  • While risk is unavoidable, don’t dwell on the challenges.
    — Rick Luebbe, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • But there are unavoidable conclusions to be drawn about the size of container ships vs. the size of the canal.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • Waiting for trains is just an unavoidable fact of city life.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In these speeches, Mr. Xi did not say that war was unavoidable.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But none are as omnipresent and unavoidable as the laundry.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • Ohio State’s standing atop the league was inevitable and unavoidable.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The film grows more cringeworthy by the minute, and, of course, a reckoning is unavoidable.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Still, cities are as much a part of society as rivers and mountains are part of the landscape — and as unavoidable.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Alas, drama was unavoidable with assets like Fox News on the line.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
  • If a collision is unavoidable, brake and stay in your lane.
    — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2024
  • If a collision is unavoidable, brake and stay in your lane.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2024
  • This makes the hand of the author, which is erased, or at least abstracted in Dre’s music, unavoidable in West’s.
    — Paul Thompson, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Long drives with no stops in sight are unavoidable here, so come with a full tank of gas and plenty of water, food, and sunscreen.
    — Nina Kokotas Hahn, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2021
  • In this story, tragedy is unavoidable, and this is just one example of that.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2022
  • As predicted, the bumps in that road were unavoidable, the two NBA stars trying to find the best way to play alongside each other.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • To add to the list of unavoidable stink bug attractions, these insects love warmth and sunlight.
    — Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 14 June 2022
  • The mess of the duck sanctuary is sometimes unavoidable.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Despite the game’s tactical focus, Young’s flair for showmanship remains an unavoidable subplot.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • This unavoidable task eats into a company’s capacity to scale, with the potential for delays caused by everything from document access to sifting through entire knowledge bases to pinpoint the correct document.
    — Ravikiran Dharmavaram, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025

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