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How to use unfit in a sentence

26 example sentences · adjective, verb

Unfit means not fit; not having the correct requirements. Example: “Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.”

Examples of unfit by meaning

adjectiveNot fit; not having the correct requirements.

  • Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
  • The latter engine was found unfit to take its return working at 5.35 p.m. from Luton, and No. 45616, Malta G.C., was provided by Kentish Town as substitute.1953 April, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 284
  • A Virginia judge found that her sexual relationship with her lover was immoral and rendered her an unfit parent.1993 October, Nancy D. Polikoff, “Lesbian And Gay Parenting: What's At Stake?”, in Gay Community News, page 3

adjectiveNot fit, not having a good physical demeanor.

  • I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.

adjectiveUnsuitable for a particular purpose.

  • Sadly, the station that proves to be the busiest - Blackpool Pleasure Beach - is unfit for purpose.2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 56

verbTo make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.

  • These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30
  • This life entirely unfits you for general practice.2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 403
  • The crush in the 'peak hours' not only overloaded public conveyances, but subjected travellers - particularly the old, the feeble and women - to an amount of suffering, the effects of which often unfitted them temporarily for their ordinary duties."2020 April 8, Dr David Turner, “How railway staff were conduits and victims of a pandemic”, in Rail, page 31

More sentences with unfit

  • He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.From the entry broke
  • This has led to the deep-seated mistrust of soldiers who report sick or declare themselves unfit.2018 May 3, “To Prevent More Deaths Like Pte Dave Lee’s, Chao Keng Culture Must End”, in Rice. From the entry chao keng
  • His enemies say that he is a poor, weak creature, quite unfit to guide the Cypriote Church.1907, Adrian Fortescue, “The Church of Cyprus”, in The Orthodox Eastern Church, London: Catholic Truth Society […], →OCLC, part IV (The…. From the entry Kyrenian
  • In point of fact it was over fifteen, and even then she had bought it secondhanded, and almost unfit for use.2013, Emile Gaboriau, Other People's Money, →ISBN. From the entry secondhanded
  • Legislative reform campaigns aimed at restricting foreign immigration, mandating state institutionalization of the biologically unfit, and legalizing eugenical involuntary sterilization.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 71. From the entry legalize
  • Like the wolf, man the hunter in killing the weak and unfit, actually works to maintain the health of the herd.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry civilized
  • 'the cottages, or rather hovels, in which the farm labourers dwell are squalidly wretched and unfit for human habitation'.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 121. From the entry squalidly
  • Having asked him for explanation, he told us that he had waistache and was unfit to do heavy work.1973, G. Jansen, The Doctor-patient Relationship in an African Tribal Society, page 88. From the entry waistache
  • In the past, when a boat sank and was judged unfit for salvage, the Coast Guard 'clamshelled' it.1972 March, Willard Beiley, “Underwater Brigade”, in Cincinnati Magazine, volume 5, number 6, page 49. From the entry clamshell
  • For a governess’ life she had been, indeed, notably unfit.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry penury
  • I think Jeffrey Goldberg deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor for exposing just how dangerously unfit the entire Trump administration really is.2025 March 26, “SEND UP A SIGNAL, I'LL THROW YOU A LINE”, in Political Voices Network, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2025. From the entry Whiskeyleaks
  • Deeming the tank ‘polluted’ and its water unfit for consumption, a puja ceremony was performed by Brahmin men to ‘purify’ the reservoir.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 18. From the entry puja
  • “He was always unfit for office.2022 July 7, Mark Landler, Megan Specia, Stephen Castle, quoting Keir Starmer, “Boris Johnson Will Resign as His Party’s Leader”, in The…. From the entry industrial scale
  • He fell, in a flutter of quilts and a storm of cuss words totally unfit for a lady's ears, to her feet.2004, Patricia Lucas White, Edwina Parkhurst Spinster. From the entry flutter
  • That amendment gives the cabinet of the president the power to remove the president from office if they determine that he is unfit to fulfill his duties.2025 May 19, Joseph Allen, “"25 47" Is the Latest Coded Attempt to Signal Opposition to Donald Trump”, in Distractify, archived from the…. From the entry 86
  • Whitman nearly managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory by allowing Florio to define her as out of touch and unfit for the governorship.2009 December 11, Thomas M. Carsey, Campaign Dynamics: The Race for Governor, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory
  • All the above three yogas are said to cause poverty, render the person unfit for company by his wrathsome conduct and habits and make him miserable.2002, Bangalore Venkat Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations. From the entry wrathsome
  • The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit.1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition. From the entry bondservant

Meaning of unfit

  1. adjective Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
  2. adjective Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
  3. adjective Unsuitable for a particular purpose.

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Questions about unfit in a sentence

How do you use unfit in a sentence?
Unfit is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.”
What is a short sentence with unfit?
““He was always unfit for office.”
What does unfit mean?
Unfit means not fit; not having the correct requirements.

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