How to Use unsafe in a Sentence

unsafe

adjective
Definition of unsafenext
Synonyms for unsafenext
  • Drug use surged, and the place grew unsafe and run-down.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • No one should ever feel this way and no child should ever go to school and feel unsafe.
    — Sarah Ritter The Kansas City Star (tns), al, 21 July 2022
  • City staff declared the structure to be unsafe/vacant in 2008.
    — Joseph Flaherty, arkansasonline.com, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The students, who live on the south side of campus, said the nighttime patrolling can feel unsafe.
    — Dia Gill, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Then again, neither is riding in the back of a truck bed, which can also be unsafe.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Any other food items should be treated as unsafe to eat and thrown out.
    — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 21 May 2024
  • Getting up too soon on a plane is unsafe and can increase the danger.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Even the walk to and from my vehicle never felt unsafe.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 9 June 2022
  • Some were worried the air in the facility would be unsafe to breathe because of smoke from the fire.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The mission was only supposed to last six months, but the ship that was supposed to bring the crew home had a coolant leak and was deemed unsafe.
    — Jon Michael Raasch Fox News, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Last year, the fire department deemed it unsafe, and the aging building closed for good.
    — Alexandria Sands, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The walk back to their car felt extremely unsafe as an intense wind storm broke out.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
  • And prior to Thursday, there did not appear to be grounds for Twitter to claim that Mastodon links were unsafe.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Zarate, who wants to end fares, said many of the group’s members who use public transit sometimes feel unsafe.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Crews can respond to outages as long as winds aren't above 29 mph, at which the weather is deemed unsafe for crews to work outside.
    — Cheryl Vari, The Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2024
  • In his order, Kacsmaryk the drug -- which has been on the market for 23 years -- is unsafe and its approval process was rushed.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Refuse to let anyone talk you into something that feels unsafe or wrong.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The men’s triathlon was postponed by a day because of unsafe conditions.
    — Alice Park / Paris, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Knight and Gilbert, who are fighting the eviction, maintain that the conditions are still unsafe.
    — Alison Burdo, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The amusement parks of his era had few rides that parents could enjoy with their children and were often dirty and unsafe.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Anchor other things that may be unsafe to bring indoors, such as grills or propane tanks.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • One of the most urgent needs was shelter to help the thousands of people whose homes were either destroyed or may be unsafe.
    — Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • After a while, Merrick asked if there was anything unsafe about this.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 July 2024
  • Forty-five percent of abortions in the world are unsafe, the U.N. calculated.
    — Neha Wadekar, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
  • If the Soyuz is unsafe, the three crew members would have no immediate means of returning to Earth—and for now the outlook for the Soyuz is not good.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 15 Dec. 2022
  • As the crowd grew and police perceived the conditions to be unsafe, officers arrived on the scene to shut down the concert.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2022
  • No one should be put in unsafe circumstances while trying to earn a living.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
  • Anyone with eyesight in East Palestine could see, from the plume of toxic smoke that rose from the accident site for days, that the air was unsafe to breathe.
    — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The museum also has an agreement with the city of Des Moines to remove structures that become unsafe, per the Times.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Poorly fitting lenses or those made with unsafe materials can block oxygen to the cornea, leading to complications like swelling or inflammation.
    — Alyssa Hui-Anderson, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2024

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