How to Use untenable in a Sentence

untenable

adjective
Definition of untenablenext
Synonyms for untenablenext
  • At worst, the bad guys win and that is simply untenable.
    — Saryu Nayyar, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In the absence of these reforms, the status quo is untenable.
    — Mona Yacoubian, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Building upon Fever Dreams and the notion of the untenable; the tent has been flipped over and suspended.
    — Vogue, 2 Aug. 2024
  • He’s made a mess of four of his last five appearances, an untenable rate of failure.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
  • And the company will need to set a price that doesn’t make that argument untenable.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Pratt is so clearly in love with his kids that to let any suggestion to the contrary go by is untenable.
    — Mickey Rapkin, Men's Health, 28 June 2022
  • As this past week has shown, the status quo in Israel-Palestine is untenable.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2023
  • That untenable speed-of-life is an all-ages affliction, though.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Our post-Roe land will force many more women to make these untenable choices.
    — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • How were we supposed to go on when the simple act of gathering now posed an untenable risk?
    — Julie Oh, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Living with such a high risk of violence is clearly untenable, in the long term.
    — Tara Law, Time, 3 June 2022
  • In a pre-Covid era, this kind of disruption to a household’s routine would be untenable.
    — Louis Montgomery Jr., Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The prospect of James playing for the Lakers while owning part of their archrival would also be untenable.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 1 July 2024
  • But looking that closely at the entire genome is untenable: There would be far too much data to sift through.
    — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The trend is untenable as more American schools cross the half-century mark.
    — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps the White House will try to fudge the issue or water down the proposal, but its basic stance is untenable and shows.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • In its lawsuit, TikTok said the law would force a shutdown of the app by early next year, arguing that the sale of the app is untenable before then.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 29 May 2024
  • The defense was very good in the second half of that game, too, but those types of defensive numbers are untenable if the Utes are going to keep this thing rolling.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Life in the camp had already become untenable, Ms. Mataheen said.
    — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The fact is many of the kids on these shows are put in the untenable position of becoming the breadwinner for their family and the pressure that comes along with that.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But the battle du jour seems more fierce, with untenable consequences.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The Supreme Court has placed new, and untenable burdens on the shoulders of ordinary Americans.
    — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 3 July 2022
  • Having a pricey prototype sitting on a ship for weeks or months wasn't the best use of resources, and the strain on engineers was untenable.
    — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The key is to focus on finding a strategy that works for you and seek mental health care if your symptoms grow untenable.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • But if home life is untenable, where should Sabrina live?
    — New York Times, 1 June 2022
  • The trips run in all but the height of summer (December to early March in in southern Africa), when heat, rain, and mosquitos make the voyage untenable.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Based on what the Big Ten schools are set to get annually with the league’s new media rights agreement makes even $42 million feel untenable.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
  • With pressure growing by the day and dissent spreading through the White House, Biden’s hands-off approach could soon become untenable.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Even getting to work, thanks to sky-high gas prices, can feel practically untenable.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
  • In the late nineties and early two-thousands, as guerrilla and paramilitary violence worsened, life in many parts of Colombia became untenable; millions were forced to leave their homes.
    — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024

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