How To Use Unplayable In A Sentence
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A short-rising ball from Farmer was unplayable by the batsman and the match ended as a draw with the scores tied.
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It puts them quickly on the offensive, but always with the padlock secure at the back and Portsmouth found them unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have LPs, EPs, battered 78s, reissues, and foreign imports, from the pristine and unplayed to the almost unplayable.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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The major flaws come with no online game play and the unresponsive controls can almost make the game unplayable at times.
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In almost unplayable conditions Blackburn produced their worst performance of the season against local rivals Bolton.
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Napster requires you to log into your account with a portable player at least once a month, or the songs become unplayable.
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Also, in writing for mallet percussion, non percussionist composers tend to compose at a piano keyboard resulting in numerous passages easily playable by ten fingers, yet often unplayable with four mallets.
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At times he was unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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After all of 10 seconds at the ground, it was obvious that large parts of the pitch were unplayable.
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This was the third consecutive game in inclement weather at Heinz Field, including tropical-like rain that fell throughout Pittsburgh's 3-0 victory over Miami on Nov. 26 and left a newly sodded field nearly unplayable.
USATODAY.com
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YES, but at times he was unplayable.
The Sun
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He told me the game was off because the goalposts had been vandalised and the pitch was unplayable.
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the golf ball was in an unplayable lie
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However, at 10 am it was deemed unplayable and with little likelihood of a thaw the match was called off.
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After an hour and 16 minutes of delay, umpire-in-chief Dave Phillips decided the field was unplayable, and called the second game.
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The frame rate in general is pretty solid most of the time, although there are instances, such as when boulders roll in front of you, that the game is darn near unplayable for a few seconds or so.
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At times his strength, pace and power make him almost unplayable.
The Sun
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It puts them quickly on the offensive, but always with the padlock secure at the back and Portsmouth found them unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, she becomes almost unplayable once she has let her opponent build up a big enough lead.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he insisted the course was unplayable as huge puddles formed after a heavy downpour.
The Sun
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The driving wind and rain made the conditions unplayable on a heavy, sodden surface.
The Sun
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Last season the winger was simply unplayable and scored both goals in a 2-0 win.
The Sun
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Abbeyfeale Utd teams enjoyed a free weekend due to bad weather and unplayable pitches.
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But the bottom six inches in some places is almost unplayable.
The Sun
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While South Africa did bowl extremely well, the manner in which Pakistan capitulated had more to do with indifferent strokes than unplayable deliveries.
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He was well up for it and when he is in that mood he's almost unplayable.
The Sun
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Accuracy and steadiness under pressure are more important than the ability to produce the odd unplayable ball.
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If in the view of one side or one person the ground is unplayable and the game goes ahead, then you play an uninsured game, which could be more of a concern.
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He tended to bowl too wide at times but from time to time would produce the unplayable ball.
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WHAT has happened to the winger from last season who at times was unplayable for opposing full-backs?
The Sun
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the field was unplayable
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Were two clubs in Liverpool to share a pitch, under the prevailing climatic conditions along the Mersey, the surface would swiftly become all but unplayable.
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Accuracy and steadiness under pressure are more important than the ability to produce the odd unplayable ball.
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In cup/shield games the match reverts to the away teams ground if the home pitch is unplayable.
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Slow drop in pitches where dibbly dobblers can look unplayable, more rain interruptions than hot meals, gale force winds disturbing bowler's run-ups and grounds that don't have any practice nets, because they are primarily rugby stadiums, are just some of the conditions to which this young Indian camp must quickly adjust.
Cricket365
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The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Poor Pyotr never had things easy in life, and his work was at first damned as ‘worthless, unplayable and clumsy’ - and that was from the intended dedicatee, Nikolai Rubinstein.
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The striker was simply unplayable.
The Sun
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He told me the game was off because the goalposts had been vandalised and the pitch was unplayable.
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When he played on Sunday he said the gusts were so strong that the course was unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Accuracy and steadiness under pressure are more important than the ability to produce the odd unplayable ball.
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To borrow cricketing parlance he was unplayable for this almost perfect period of play.
Times, Sunday Times
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As soon as he blew the whistle for half-time, referee Mr McNamara consulted with his linesmen and the two managers, decided the pitch was unplayable and abandoned proceedings.
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When Tchaikovsky played his First Piano Concerto for Nikolay Rubinstein, director of the Moscow Conservatoire, Rubinstein attacked it as worthless, trite and unplayable.
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Unfortunately, when the lute arrives it will be mostly untunable and unplayable.
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After the attacks of 11 September, harmless songs were deemed unplayable, flags are deemed obligatory by some and offensive by others, paintings painted years ago are removed from gallery walls.
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Two more singles are added - and as I observed at 0457, he seems more like runless, wicketless Brisbane Johnson than the unplayable Johnson of Perth.
BBC News - Home
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For once, though, the ground-breaking composer, whose first work was rejected as unplayable by the Royal Manchester College, has a precedent.
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The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then we had a referee who took one look at it and said it was unplayable.
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Last week, the Terriers had travelled to Spotland with only 12 fit players, though that game was cancelled as the pitch was unplayable.
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A technology known as Digital Rights Management is built into the video files so that they are unplayable after a set time.
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Cut off from the world and supported by a private income, he composed dauntingly huge pieces which were regarded as all but unplayable.
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A football match between the crews of two nuclear submarines at the North Pole had to be cancelled - the pitch was unplayable.
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Coria claims his second break with two more unplayable backhands down the line that leave Agassi stranded.
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He was unplayable at times.
The Sun
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Poor weather left pitches unplayable, especially for training purposes, as McPartland and his selectors assessed the worth of over 60 players during trials.
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The conditions at that stage were unplayable, more so for the bowlers and fielders than the batsmen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ndima received an unplayable delivery from Namibian strike bowler, Gerrie Snyman, edging to wicketkeeper Morne Karg.
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Their match with Hull, scheduled to kick-off at 1pm, has been postponed due to the pitch being unplayable.
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some music seems almost unplayable
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On some days, he simply seems unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The potent combination of speed and size makes him almost unplayable on his day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tears of a self-confessed stoic will always grab the headlines, but it should be noted that this match was extraordinarily absorbing, with Rezaï producing shots of unplayable depth.
Victorious Serena Fails to Ward Off Tears
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All games are timed for 11.30 a.m. with first named teams having home venue unless pitches are unplayable.
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The potent combination of speed and size makes him almost unplayable on his day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bunkers were in an unbelievable condition no doubt due to the efforts by the ground keepers on the other eighteen which made them almost unplayable.
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His second wound up in Lytham's deep rough and was unplayable.
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The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Hibs groundsman declared it unplayable, and the referee indicated during the warm-up that the match would be completed only if there was no more rain.
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When he's like that, he is virtually unplayable.
The Sun
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And the Superdome, where the team played its games, was home for thousands of refugees and was so badly damaged by Katrina that it's now considered unplayable and might have to be razed.
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Bessbrook United had a wasted journey to West Belfast when the referee deemed the pitch to be unplayable.
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FROM totally unacceptable to simply unplayable.
The Sun
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More than five years have passed since the last case of cold weather rendering a Premier League pitch unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The French magician was almost unplayable at times.
The Sun
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In the second-half, he was almost unplayable.
The Sun
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Referee George Cain decided the Bramall Lane pitch was unplayable at a 2pm inspection following persistent rain overnight.
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While HDCP's digital rights management (DRM) is "revocable" -- it allows copyright owners to generate a fresh set of encryption keys for new releases, after which law-abiding owners of Blu-ray players have to wait for firmware updates to watch those titles -- the master key by its nature can't be revoked without making every existing release unplayable on hardware that complied with the old key.
Blu-ray's HDCP security possibly cracked. So what?
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And he insisted the course was unplayable as huge puddles formed after a heavy downpour.
The Sun
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Of course, you would expect it to be damp in those parts of the Highlands which the Camanachd Association holds as its fiefdom and indeed shinty has suffered in recent weeks with matches being cancelled due to unplayable pitches.
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Nasser Hussain could only edge an unplayable McGrath delivery to Ricky Ponting at second slip, who took a sensational sprawling catch.
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Sergio thought of taking an unplayable penalty but decided to slash it out.
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One of the simplest but most misunderstood rules predicaments on the PGA Tour is a ball that's unplayable, says tour rules official Mark Russell.
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The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fish then found from somewhere the energy to hit three more unplayable serves and finally end the match.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he played on Sunday he said the gusts were so strong that the course was unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The greens are almost unplayable with ferocious pace, bumps and borrows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of the playing surfaces in the league are a joke, are almost unplayable and a health hazard to the players.
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And he insisted the course was unplayable as huge puddles formed after a heavy downpour.
The Sun
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Before the work was carried out the pitches were unplayable during the winter due to waterlogging.