How to Use unsafe in a Sentence

unsafe

adjective
Definition of unsafenext
Synonyms for unsafenext
  • Drug use surged, and the place grew unsafe and run-down.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Say he get got caught in a storm and worried that pressing on would be unsafe.
    — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 3 June 2022
  • No one should ever feel this way and no child should ever go to school and feel unsafe.
    — Sarah Ritter The Kansas City Star (tns), al, 21 July 2022
  • City staff declared the structure to be unsafe/vacant in 2008.
    — Joseph Flaherty, arkansasonline.com, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The students, who live on the south side of campus, said the nighttime patrolling can feel unsafe.
    — Dia Gill, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Then again, neither is riding in the back of a truck bed, which can also be unsafe.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Any other food items should be treated as unsafe to eat and thrown out.
    — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 21 May 2024
  • Getting up too soon on a plane is unsafe and can increase the danger.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Even the walk to and from my vehicle never felt unsafe.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 9 June 2022
  • Some were worried the air in the facility would be unsafe to breathe because of smoke from the fire.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Not only can a candle outdoors be unsafe, but chances are the flame will blow out the second the wind starts.
    — Sanah Faroke, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The mission was only supposed to last six months, but the ship that was supposed to bring the crew home had a coolant leak and was deemed unsafe.
    — Jon Michael Raasch Fox News, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Last year, the fire department deemed it unsafe, and the aging building closed for good.
    — Alexandria Sands, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The walk back to their car felt extremely unsafe as an intense wind storm broke out.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
  • It has been used for people who would be unsafe if returned to their home countries.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And prior to Thursday, there did not appear to be grounds for Twitter to claim that Mastodon links were unsafe.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Well, what felt unsafe to me in my life was not knowing things, not knowing the things that everyone else knew.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2022
  • If or when there is a crisis at their office: 38% would feel unsafe at their workplace.
    — Edward Segal, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Zarate, who wants to end fares, said many of the group’s members who use public transit sometimes feel unsafe.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Crews can respond to outages as long as winds aren't above 29 mph, at which the weather is deemed unsafe for crews to work outside.
    — Cheryl Vari, The Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2024
  • In his order, Kacsmaryk the drug -- which has been on the market for 23 years -- is unsafe and its approval process was rushed.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Refuse to let anyone talk you into something that feels unsafe or wrong.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • In recent months, it has been cordoned off with yellow caution tape, deemed unsafe by the city.
    — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The men’s triathlon was postponed by a day because of unsafe conditions.
    — Alice Park / Paris, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • And believe me, these other cities have areas that are unsafe.
    — David Sher, al, 8 May 2022
  • Knight and Gilbert, who are fighting the eviction, maintain that the conditions are still unsafe.
    — Alison Burdo, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The amusement parks of his era had few rides that parents could enjoy with their children and were often dirty and unsafe.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Anchor other things that may be unsafe to bring indoors, such as grills or propane tanks.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Some are sighting unsafe residential roads, as snow plows continue to work on clearing roads.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Other drivers had reported an eastbound Toyota Prius being driven at unsafe speeds and passing across the double yellow line east of Twin Bridges.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025

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