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How to use unreasonable in a sentence

25 example sentences · adjective

Unreasonable means without the ability to reason; unreasoning. Example: “It's not unreasonable to verify his claims by cross-checking them with third parties. That's called due diligence.”

More sentences with unreasonable

  • It's not unreasonable to verify his claims by cross-checking them with third parties. That's called due diligence.From the entry called
  • It seems unreasonable for our boss to withhold our wages.From the entry for
  • That year, secession was enacted on account of unreasonable policies.From the entry secession
  • Since the last British government to make such a proposal was that of a certain Margaret Thatcher, it might not seem unreasonable.From the entry certain
  • A bride is making unreasonable demands of her wedding party and the maid of honor might quit?2024 June 21, Jason P. Frank, “Who Else Needs to Work It Out on a Remix?”, in Vulture. From the entry slay
  • “One person is superstrict and unreasonable, another is just right and another is totally lax,” she wrote.2008 February 29, Andrew Martin, “Agriculture Dept. Vows to Improve Animal Welfare”, in New York Times. From the entry superstrict
  • The ineffable self-satisfaction displayed by the young Turkish papicide during his interrogation and trial was not unreasonable.1982, Polish Perspectives, volume XXV, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Wspólczesne RSW Prasa-Książka-Ruch, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40. From the entry papicide
  • Everywhere they met with the same unreasonable snakephobia, distinguishing characteristic of femininity.1928 July 8, “Lizards and Snakes for Gowns, Gloves and Automobile Cushions; Eight Thousand Java Lizards Trapped in the Island Jungle, and…. From the entry snakephobia
  • In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, the department accused Democrats of being unreasonable in subpoenaing that material.2019 May 7, Nicholas Fandos, Charlie Savage, Catie Edmondson, Maggie Haberman, “Justice Dept. threatens House Democrats over contempt in…. From the entry subpoena
  • Sealioning thus works both to exhaust a target’s patience, attention, and communicative effort, and to portray the target as unreasonable.2019 March 7, Amy Johnson, Berkman Klein Centier. From the entry sealioning
  • When discussing these concepts, it is unreasonable to expect absolutes.2016, I. Unah, The Supreme Court in American Politics, Springer, →ISBN, page 187. From the entry absolute
  • Critics see an unreasonable craving for authority in Newman's anti-liberalism.2001 February 24, Peter Steinfels, “Beliefs; A 19th-century theologian whose questions remain pertinent to the Roman Catholic Church”, in…. From the entry bred-in-the-bone
  • It would be unreasonable to expect anything else.1983 June, Isaac Asimov, “Editorial: Unreasonable!”, in Shawna McCarthy, editor, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 7, number…. From the entry unreasonability
  • The patient becomes listless, sluggish, irritable, perversed in desires, unreasonable and passes through varied stages of mental decay to ultimate insanity.1918 January, William Held, “The Epilepsy Problem”, in Iowa Homeopathic Journal, volume 11, number 8, page 13. From the entry perversed
  • Writing for the 6-3 majority, Justice Elena Kagan said that the technique, known as geofencing, violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches.2026 June 29, Nina Totenberg, Grady Martin, “Supreme Court restricts use of geofence warrants”, in Law, NPR, retrieved 29 Jun 2026. From the entry geofencing
  • It's not unreasonable to believe that, while carbohydrates themselves may not be particularly immunogenic, their conjugation to an appropriate multivalenced structure may work well.2014, Yves Queneau, A Pilar Rauter, Thisbe Lindhorst, Carbohydrate Chemistry: Chemical and Biological Approaches, →ISBN. From the entry multivalenced
  • My friend, a Scottish newspaper chief, has spent half a lifetime gliding across some of Fleet Street's more ultramontane and unreasonable titles.2010 September 12, Kevin McKenna, “Save Catholicism? The pope needs a miracle”, in The Guardian. From the entry ultramontane
  • You are a very unreasonable man.2009, Lynne Graham, chapter 8, in The Ruthless Magnate's Virgin Mistress, Harlequin, page 125. From the entry trophy girlfriend
  • I myself identify as an apistevist (one who rejects faith), because faith is an assertion of unreasonable conviction that is assumed without reason and defended against all reason.2016, Aron Ra, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism, Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). From the entry apistevist
  • To sum up, it is not at all unreasonable for the British to expect great things from Murray this season, particularly on the hardcourts he prefers.2009 January 18, Christopher Clarey, “Top-Ranked Men and Women Focused on Australian Open Title”, in New York Times. From the entry hardcourt
  • It is not an unreasonable argument, but the effective counter is that they have still managed to outachieve and outlast a generation, with ease and without burning out.2009 July 1, Harvey Araton, “Venus, Serena and a Group of Ladies-in-Waiting”, in New York Times. From the entry outachieve
  • An unreasonable urge told me to get away from the noise—to get away from the thousand little talks of wives and kids, policemen and weigh stations, axlerods and tires.2001, Francis Dipietro, Portobello Road, page 42. From the entry axlerod
  • They will say that sacrifice is fine, as long as other people do it, but that their sacrifice is unreasonable, or unfair, or harmful to the country.1977 April 18, Jimmy Carter, President's Address to the Nation on Proposed National Energy Policy. From the entry special interest group
  • Routine precautions were to him no more unreasonable than they would be to a deep-sea diver or a test pilot, or to any man earning danger-money.1953, Ian Fleming, “The Secret Agent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 13. From the entry danger money
  • It is not unreasonable to argue that the field has been overintellectualized in that many of the representations are based on matrix algebra, latent trait theory, and . . .2002, Norman Cliff, John Augustus Keats, Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences. From the entry overintellectualized

Meaning of unreasonable

  1. adjective Without the ability to reason; unreasoning.
  2. adjective Not reasonable; going beyond what could be expected or asked for.

Full definition of unreasonable

Questions about unreasonable in a sentence

How do you use unreasonable in a sentence?
Unreasonable is used as an adjective. For example: “It's not unreasonable to verify his claims by cross-checking them with third parties. That's called due diligence.”
What is a short sentence with unreasonable?
“You are a very unreasonable man.”
What does unreasonable mean?
Unreasonable means without the ability to reason; unreasoning.

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