How To Use Unobtainable In A Sentence
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timber is virtually unobtainable in the islands
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It was published in 1937 so is probably unobtainable now (though you could try abebooks), but it was a marvellous autobiography by a man who edited pulp magazines.
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But there seems no reason why this scheme should not work and provide an otherwise unobtainable massive injection of resources for a financially hard-hit National Health Service.
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They grow well enough in several states but are unobtainable in Washington.
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For many young people who feel trapped on an endless treadmill of dreary short-term jobs, interspersed with spells of unemployment, this seems like an increasingly unobtainable dream.
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Even more unobtainable, no doubt, is a measure of the comparative enjoyments derivable from choosing for oneself.
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That concept - aerospace power eclipsing the fog and friction of war - may be unobtainable, but it is still an important one to consider in terms of what it takes to make aerospace power work today and in the future.
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I tried to call Stevie Clark repeatedly but his phone alternated between off and unobtainable.
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Tea has stayed with me as a drug of choice where others have palled or become unobtainable.
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Then I found their phone number was unobtainable and they didn't return my emails and now my fears have been confirmed.
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Two tickets for the award ceremony otherwise unobtainable at so late a date-were delivered to their room.
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He travelled 400 miles from Tokyo carrying rations for seven meals - food is almost unobtainable in Japan - a black umbrella, and a typewriter.
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By limiting the kinds of questions that can be posed, departmental thought intentionally screens out certain features of reality, and while this partial blindness can be counted as a necessary condition of modern knowledge, it creates the conditions for an interdisciplinary reaction that blends two or more approaches to achieve results unobtainable by either: hence biochemistry, sociobiology, genetic engineering, architectural ethics and countless other innovations that are virtually invited by the limitations of disciplinarity.
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Tea has stayed with me as a drug of choice where others have palled or become unobtainable.
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Tickets seem unobtainable to the ordinary mortal.
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It's an unobtainable dream world that some feel safe in and like to escape to.
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Unfortunately, it is unobtainable in most shops.
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Camping ground at night was almost unobtainable, and thick, poisonous mists enwreathed the boats during the hours of darkness, fevering the men's blood, cramping and stiffening their limbs.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
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We know that the targets are challenging but we have no reason to think that they are unobtainable.
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Twentieth-century bonbons and sweets made in France include numerous skilfully marketed regional specialities, traditional or modern, unobtainable anywhere else.
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They were so sexy and unobtainable that leading royals and The Beatles begged for them.
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His website is still up and running, but his telephone number is unobtainable.
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Twentieth-century bonbons and sweets made in France include numerous regional specialities, traditional or modern, unobtainable anywhere else.
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That would mean that a majority of senators could establish a new rule allowing debate to be shut off with only a simple majority, not the usual and nearly unobtainable sixty-four votes.
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His mobile number returned "unobtainable", his landline number had been reallocated and he had left his bedsit.
'David, my brother for a year'
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The novel is not about a quest to find this rare, priceless artefact, but about the emotional fall-out from suddenly fulfilling a dream, an unobtainable dream which he has used to insulate and protect himself.
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The call is diverted, the number unobtainable, the voice at the end of the line is not the person in charge.
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I would never infantilise myself to reach these ridiculous, unobtainable ideals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The recipe shows its age: David is forced to sadly concede that, as clams are unobtainable in this country, mussels or cockles make an acceptable substitute – "but fresh ones, not the lethally vinegared kind in jars".
How to cook perfect spaghetti alle vongole
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But they had to be humoured before they could be diverted from the unobtainable to the treasure that was actually for sale.
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You can whine all you want about the way men treat you (usually, like dirt), but it's the challenge of obtaining the unobtainable that thrills you.
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My mission was to explain this with baffling technical jargon and pie charts - mmmm, pies - while Stella's role was to talk money and promise unobtainable IT related happiness.
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These branches will afford the unbanked population with affordable minimum bank balance accounts that currently are unobtainable from most commercial banks.
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Warrick Locke was very useful with his black-market connections, enabling her to get hold of all manner of goods that were otherwise unobtainable, having them shipped home in discreet parcels marked as "hessian," "beans," or "oats," or other things that were not in short supply.
Phoenix And Ashes
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Some things are just plain unobtainable: it's impossible, for example, to find blue fountain pen ink in the standard cartridges around here.
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There was a crackly pause; then the dull whine of number unobtainable.
NIGHT SISTERS
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For want of insights and data often unobtainable from the corporate media, the public opinion vital to US democracy has trouble remaining vigorous and informed.
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This particular feast is unobtainable here, but there are plenty of other good things authentically evocative of Turkey.
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And when they are, they're entirely unobtainable - and it's hard to convince a man that you're the girl of his dreams while tearing his ticket…
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The passage of time and the limits of the written record have rendered full comprehension unobtainable.
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By contrasting colour and black and white photography, the men seem to appear more distant and further unobtainable.
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A litigant under these rules was well advised to present evidence of an educated male noble, or, if a noble was unobtainable or unbribable, of a priest of the Orthodox faith.
