Example Sentences

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For real strangeness in novels, you usually have to voyage to lands that still tolerate the obdurate, the sleazy, the resentful, the offline and any other attributes presently considered unmarketable.

From New York Times • May 3, 2022

It’s not harmful to humans, but it reduces yields, and its soft, cauliflower-like appendages make potatoes unmarketable.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2022

Kahn said the bullet train’s impacts make the house unmarketable.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Environmental groups have long argued that the logging industry has used fire as an excuse to plunder forests, cutting big trees and leaving behind only small, unmarketable timber.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2018

Some leaf crops were so burned and spotted as to be unmarketable.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson