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unhealthy - use in sentences
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: Chemicals can infuse the air with a scent that mimics fresh aroma, but in some cases they can actually make the air unhealthy.
Modifies a noun
- obsession: At what point does a liking of a band turn into an unhealthy obsession?
- lifestyle: Many of the problems of later life are the result of an unhealthy lifestyle in earlier years.
- envy: In the next chapter, I will discuss the ABCs of unhealthy envy.
- jealousy: However, you have probably not bought this book just to understand unhealthy jealousy.
- spiral: The unhealthy spiral feeds from waves on either side.
- diet: You can have an unhealthy diet with or without meat.
Modifying Another Word
- distinctly: So even the benefits of the tracking devices may be part of a distinctly unhealthy pattern that negates the benefits.
- deeply: Churches become centered on a particular person in a way that is deeply unhealthy.
- potentially: Because sensible eating is about distinguishing between healthy and potentially unhealthy foods â for us!
- rather: Those of us who work in upland path repair can often succumb to a rather unhealthy obsession with the state of footpaths.
- extremely: Not only would that be extremely unhealthy, employers would not be impressed.
- increasingly: The 1990s became an increasingly unhealthy decade for the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
Infinitive complement
- have: But it would be really unhealthy just to have Robbie Williams.
Used with adjective complement
- consider: I suppose this is the reason the climate is considered so unhealthy.
- become: One of the healthy waves had somehow become unhealthy.
- feel: Dehydration is probably the major cause of feeling unhealthy on the trail.
- look: However, it also reveals that many of the remaining cells look unhealthy.
- get: If you've stopped growing and still gaining weight, you need to take care it doesn't get unhealthy.
Preposition: in
- way: Most of us agree that the current state of affairs is unhealthy in various ways.
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