Example sentences for: untenable

How can you use “untenable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But if that's the case, a consistent argument would have to stick by the claim that the war was a mistake--a position even Pat Buchanan knows to be untenable in a presidential election.

  • Most pundits agree that George W.'s refusal to answer questions about possible cocaine use is untenable.

  • Cultural critic Edward Rothstein attacks the film's central metaphor--the Mafia family as metaphor for the American family--as untenable.

  • And, like McGovern, Dole was enticed into an untenable choice, not by his party's fringes, but by ostensibly responsible establishmentarian elements.

  • This is not a completely untenable proposition, since, as Shesol demonstrates, toward the end of his life Kennedy began to experiment with some uncannily Clintonesque gestures, such as financing urban renewal through market-based public-private partnerships.


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