How to Use unbreathable in a Sentence

unbreathable

adjective
  • The air has become unbreathable for weeks at a time, according to the Guardian.
    — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2020
  • Also, a safe is a much better place to store a gun than in an unbreathable gun case which can lead to rust problems.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The volcano has been spewing out great clouds of ashes for a year now, making the air in the nearby town of Vík almost unbreathable.
    — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Their two-stroke engines created a tremendous din, and the cars belched out an acrid smoke making the new breath of freedom almost unbreathable.
    — Bill Alkofer, Orange County Register, 1 Jan. 2017
  • When fires blaze out of control, floods swamp communities, storms flatten buildings, or smoke makes the air unbreathable, people have to flee their homes.
    — WIRED, 11 Jan. 2023
  • What was humanity, for that matter, in this unbreathable sphere?
    — Rebecca Giggs, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Bay Area residents have grown familiar with the smoky skies and unbreathable air that signals the California fire season.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 June 2021
  • A trip to the red planet is like visiting an even more inhospitable Antarctica, and its unbreathable atmosphere is less than two percent of what you’d find at Everest’s summit.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 27 Sep. 2016
  • As if agricultural fires and vehicular pollution were not enough, this week, there was an addition to the long list of reasons that make Delhi’s air unbreathable.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 25 Nov. 2020
  • As the cabin overheated, food would begin to spoil, photographic film would be damaged, and materials would begin to break down and off-gas, making the air unbreathable.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
  • What retiree wants to live in a world with unbreathable air, undrinkable water, and whole segments of society underemployed?
    — Terrence Keeley, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Living on Mars, with its unbreathable atmosphere, lack of liquid surface water, and toxic soil, will challenge the hardiest of astronauts.
    — National Geographic, 29 Aug. 2016
  • This might have helped lystrosaurus endure an atmosphere that was becoming unbreathable for other animals.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Workers in California and Oregon still have the option of masking up to protect themselves from covid-19, other airborne diseases, or unbreathable air from the raging Canadian wildfires thanks to state laws that prevent a mask ban.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 19 July 2023
  • The atmosphere is an unbreathable 95 percent carbon dioxide.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
  • Compared to that, another living world, with its own unique ecology, would most likely have an environment that is unbreathable and infertile at best, lethally toxic at worst.
    — Fredrick Jenet and Teviet Creighton, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2015
  • But there are lots of options on the market, and rain jackets tend to get a bad rep for being unbreathable and bulky.
    — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
  • One of their schools was closed temporarily when the air became unbreathable due to wildfire smoke.
    — Barry Hatton and Helena Alves, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023

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