inoperable

Example Sentences

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The city’s parking enforcement and transportation officers were removed from the field over the weekend after copper wire thieves damaged a key communications tower in Elysian Park, leaving several departments with inoperable radios.

From Los Angeles Times

For the first time in 35 years, The Daily Star could not publish its print edition on Friday and will be "inoperable for a while", consulting editor Kamal Ahmed told the BBC.

From BBC

Nearly 400 people with advanced, inoperable malignant melanoma took part in the study, which focused on this severe form of skin cancer.

From Science Daily

In the middle of harvest season, some agricultural machinery has been rendered inoperable without fuel, with the shortages having struck daily life outside the capital several weeks earlier.

From Barron's

It is also scrambling to raise funds for replacement parts from abroad, since so much equipment has been made inoperable by the strikes.

From The Wall Street Journal