unserviceable
Example Sentences
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Getting vital supplies into the islands was tough with jetties unserviceable.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
On June 10, Israeli airstrikes that struck Damascus International Airport caused significant damage and rendered the main runway unserviceable.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Through Revert, metal removed during the manufacture of components and from unserviceable engine parts is collected, segregated by specific alloy type, cleaned of all coatings and contaminants, and returned to the material supplier for recycling.
From Nature ● Mar. 22, 2016
The unfortunate Quinlan, whose empire was once worth £10bn, was disappearing under a mountain of unserviceable debt.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2014
The source of their practical trouble 229 lies here: the two principles, election and prescription, are nowhere united; they remain sundered and at war, unserviceable for each other’s defects.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
