inoperable
Example Sentences
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“Residents are rightfully fed up. We cannot allow inoperable, abandoned vehicles to become a permanent fixture of our streetscape. Nor can we enable ‘vanlords’ to exploit the homeless,” she said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times
New Start required the Navy to convert submarine missile tubes, making them inoperable.
But when she was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, she started losing weight and getting weaker.
From BBC
A 2023 law which proposed a similar ban on social media for young teenagers proved inoperable after courts decided it broke European law.
From BBC
A mother who described her inoperable brain condition as a "ticking timebomb" said opening an "honest" bakery in a shed at her home was helping her to cope.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
