inoperable
Example Sentences
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He announced last year that he had been diagnosed with the cancer and was undergoing treatment to stop the spread of the inoperable disease.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
At night, after the bookstore closed, he, sometimes with the help of friends, pushed the inoperable vehicle into the lot at Quirky and slept in it.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
“Residents are rightfully fed up. We cannot allow inoperable, abandoned vehicles to become a permanent fixture of our streetscape. Nor can we enable ‘vanlords’ to exploit the homeless,” she said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026
Their repair garage teems with an array of inoperable vehicles and twisted metal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026
Is this headache a symptom of an inoperable brain tumor?
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Vocabulary lists containing inoperable
I, Robot
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -able, -ible
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