Example sentences for: unwarranted

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

  • Faced with the big chemical companies' support of the treaty, opponents tried arguing that America's small businesses would bear an unwarranted burden.

  • Even in Brazil it appears that fears that a drop in the currency would bring back hyperinflation were unwarranted.

  • I see the rather boring point about using alumni to cover both men and women, and I quite agree that the use of relatively newer and less widely used terms like authoress, aviatrix , and poetess seems to be a deliberate, unwarranted attempt to identify someone as a female; but a graduate of the feminine gender is a `woman graduate' = alumna , the `first woman dancer in a ballet company' is a prima ballerina (I've never heard of a “prime ballerino”), and a `woman opera star' is a diva or prima donna . I hesitate to point out that we use prima donna of men, too, because my critics will say that they disapprove of the term's second life as designating a “temperamental person of either sex.

  • Here the potential problem is not so much excessive spending as excessive caution, which creates unwarranted delays in the introduction of safe and effective new drugs.

  • Binalshibh claims that such concern was unwarranted, and in their mid- July discussion reassured KSM that Atta and Jarrah would reconcile and be ready to move forward in about a month, after Jarrah visited his family.


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