Example Sentences

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Beccuau has described the jewels as unsalable because their status as stolen goods is now known around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

A large percentage of her creative output has been in the ephemeral form of performed and printed words, all but unsalable and uncollectable, investment-wise, in an art world context.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022

Some businesses gladly parted with their old bottles, which due to age and changes in health regulations, were unsalable.

From Washington Times • Jul. 31, 2016

Many executives would have given up after sinking a decade and $1 billion into an unsalable product.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2014

Another group packaged the most repellent, unsalable tranches of those bonds, and CDSs on the bonds, into CDOs.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis