How to Use unaffordable in a Sentence

unaffordable

adjective
Definition of unaffordablenext
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  • To be sure, housing has long been unaffordable for the poor.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • If the interest rate shoots up at the end of the initial term, the buyer may be on the hook for an unaffordable payment.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 20 May 2022
  • What’s more, home for the four of them is the latest in a succession of house-sitting gigs in unaffordable L.A.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The pricey homes in the most expensive places just got too unaffordable when rates inevitably spiked.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • As if this wasn’t enough to contend with, childcare is unaffordable in Britain.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The bank attributes much of the West’s migration woes to unaffordable housing.
    — Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Users in some countries with a lower standard of living have said that the fee is unaffordable.
    — Nathan Grayson, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • For a record half of U.S. renters, their housing is now unaffordable, Harvard finds.
    — Daniel Wood, NPR, 20 June 2024
  • Rents and house prices have risen, making more of the state’s housing unaffordable to people with low incomes.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2022
  • Huntsville and Auburn are two Alabama cities the story said will be unaffordable within the next decade.
    — Scott Turner | [email protected], al, 4 July 2022
  • Higher interest rates mean that the cost of a new home mortgage is now unaffordable for many.
    — David Ditch, National Review, 11 July 2024
  • So for now, the Phoenix market remains unaffordable for many.
    — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Even though many life-saving drugs are vastly unaffordable to people who need them most, drug prices on the whole are only up 0.4% year-over-year.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Both Wickline and her husband work full time, and having a nanny care for two kids was unaffordable.
    — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Aguillard, the superintendent, said that the new rate is unaffordable for the draft budget for next year.
    — Sunni Bean, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
  • The buyers who didn’t pay extra to lock in those rates long-term are now looking at monthly payments that may be unaffordable.
    — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The costs associated with even one year of long-term care can prove to be unaffordable for most people.
    — Jane Tavares, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Though some Bored Ape holders may have bought in early when prices were cheap, most are unaffordable to the average person.
    — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Inflation has cooled in recent months, but the preceding two-year spike has left many goods unaffordable, said the 52-year-old father of five.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Concerns have also been raised about the price of molnupiravir, which, at about $700 per course, will be unaffordable for some nations.
    — Yasmin Tayag, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Such laws have been good for the business of law, but legal services are unaffordable for many Americans.
    — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Without the free passes, the parks would be unaffordable, many employees said.
    — Mike Schneider, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Either will be much cheaper than manned aircraft and will help reverse the trend of unaffordable naval air power.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The rent has become even more unaffordable for twenty- and thirty-somethings who didn’t (or couldn’t) leave higher-cost-of-living cities for the suburbs at the same rate as their parents.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Also, even with its lower costs, the service still may be unaffordable for some patients.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The current housing market has not been this unaffordable since 1984.
    — Christopher Dawson, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Despite hopes from lawmakers that the ban might bring them down, short-term rentals are just one piece of a complex unaffordable housing problem.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2024
  • City planners are worried that Adams’s plan will affect the future of tourism in the city, driving up the price per room to unaffordable levels and sending tourists elsewhere.
    — Kevin T. Dugan, Curbed, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The drug, however, is still in shortage, according to the Food and Drug Administration, and is unaffordable for many.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • At the center of the legal battle is Biden’s new debt relief plan, which aims to help borrowers who the Education Department says have been shut out of existing forgiveness programs or are trapped in unaffordable debt.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 4 Oct. 2024

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