Example Sentences

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If deemed "unrestorable," the defendant may never go through trial, and at that point, dangerousness is assessed to determine if the defendant should remain in hospital or not.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2020

All of the seemingly meandering threads of the book converge at this point, in an understanding of art as a form of mending, of joining the severed and exiled, of restoring the unrestorable.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2016

Libby's mocking jests cannot hide the scars of the unrestorable years.

From Time Magazine Archive

You are a poet, and you give an unrestorable day, when the sun is shining and the hills lie purple in the distance, to writing a sonnet.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack