Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Unlike traditional accounts, if heirs cannot access the keys, the assets are unrecoverable.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025

To ensure safe handling, the GNC bakes in a number of control laws that constrain responses to inputs—it’s impossible to stall the BlackFly, for instance, or put one into an unrecoverable spin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

But the Mets were an unrecoverable disaster by the All-Star break so they chose to sell.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2023

I just did because number one, the jacket was unrecoverable.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2023

Frodo half opened his eyes as Sam stood over him, and then he wakened from his dreaming: another gentle, unrecoverable dream of peace.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien