unsalable

Example Sentences

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Beccuau has described the jewels as unsalable because their status as stolen goods is now known around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Seattle's free food banks, which gather unsalable food from markets and unharvested produce from the fields, report that demand for food has doubled.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2016

Some businesses gladly parted with their old bottles, which due to age and changes in health regulations, were unsalable.

From Washington Times • Jul. 31, 2016

Belonging to a generation of artists who saw portable painting and sculpture as obsolete, Mr. Oppenheim started out in the realm of the esoteric, the immaterial and the chronically unsalable.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2011

“Then ask him to take Levy Pants off our hands. I talked to three Realtors this week. Every one of them said it was the most unsalable property they’d ever seen.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole