How to Use unavoidable in a Sentence

unavoidable

adjective
  • But some things are unavoidable and life can whack you in the face.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Some were unavoidable; the sand cleaned flesh out of the tires and the smell didn’t linger.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • Booties can come in handy when walks on hot surfaces are unavoidable.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
  • Change is often very painful and scary, but an unavoidable part of life.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Some chores are unavoidable, but at least this one doesn’t have to be a hassle.
    — Juhi Wadia, PCMAG, 5 Mar. 2025
  • But the truth is that pain is unavoidable, and much of it will take us by surprise.
    — Remy Ramirez, Marie Claire, 9 Apr. 2021
  • But with a 12-team event, byes are unavoidable.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026
  • That’s not a criticism of the show so much as an unavoidable fact.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2021
  • Crashes that look unavoidable will be the ones this tech is built to prevent.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2018
  • If talking about the election is unavoidable, then set a time and place.
    — Brendan Meyer, Dallas News, 12 Nov. 2020
  • In a self-driving car, death is an unavoidable feature, not a bug.
    — Meredith Broussard, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Stretch out more For some of us, sitting down for hours a day is unavoidable.
    — Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Do not accept the false idea that brain decline is unavoidable.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 5 Jan. 2021
  • That said, Gorr’s death is unavoidable in this version of the script.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 July 2022
  • If stairs are unavoidable, Block likes to suggest a stair lift.
    — Lesly Gregory, AJC.com, 14 Jan. 2026
  • At the same time, there’s an unavoidable sense that something is being cut short here.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Winter is unavoidable — and for many, the winter blues feel that way, too.
    — Lilly Milman, Vox, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Though unavoidable, some options cause less of a white cast than others.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
  • Cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The learning curve will be unavoidable.
    — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The extent of the unavoidable seemed to be in the eye of the beholder.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But even with other sports in the mix, netball is almost unavoidable.
    — Eden Laase, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • For the shy, press-green Madison, the pitfalls are a bit unavoidable.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The size and force of the waves made capsizing almost unavoidable.
    — Bethany Wales, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
  • And that makes failures unavoidable.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Ohio State’s standing atop the league was inevitable and unavoidable.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
  • But both are unavoidable if the Paris objective is to have any chance of being met.
    — The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
  • This acts as a regressive, unavoidable tax.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • In the near term, volatility is unavoidable.
    — Mark Minevich, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Tragic heroes demonstrate that even the best of us can be brought low by unavoidable destiny.
    — Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026

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