How to Use fathomless in a Sentence

fathomless

adjective

• The water’s silver surface seems serene and fathomless, but the wind is starting to pick up.
  — Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2022
• Railroad tracks shadowed the road for a time then veered away into fathomless distances.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
• Her dark eyes had a fathomless quality, with flickering light in the irises.
  — David Rabe, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• Heirs first to genocide and then to decades of a shadowy half-life, these speakers let slip not just sorrow and confusion but a fathomless loneliness—the solitude of a private and communal shipwreck.
  — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• In the brooding opening section, Muti and the CSO peered into the depths therein — miserable, dank, unnervingly fathomless.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• Without a breath of explanation, the two pieces radiate emotion, somber and fathomless; but their precedent, an 1882 photograph by James A. Palmer, binds them together.
  — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2022
• In my experience, the real intoxication of the internet in the 1980s lay in the contrast between the luminescent yellow-green symbols and the fathomless yonder.
  — 1843, 19 June 2020
• His fathomless lack of interest in America’s path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.
  — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
• Having grown up among the unimaginably wealthy, Farrah is stunned to learn the difference between her parents’ relatively new money and the fathomless cushion of white generational wealth.
  — Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• The fathomless mysteries of other people, the capacity of their quiet behaviors to obsess and derange.
  — The Editors, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
• Whereas our affection for dogs is overly sentimental, resulting in a fathomless ocean of slobbery drool.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
• But to study the deep future is to recognize that flora and fauna, human fauna included, may be bit players in the fathomless intergalactic drama of chemicals.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021
• Paulson conveys a fathomless darkness while appearing to do almost nothing.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2020
• But his Cold War spy stories remain relevant and readable today, thanks to a combination of genuine literary talent and a fathomless cynicism about political and military maneuvering (including that of Le Carré's own country).
  — Jeff Dunn and Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024