How to Use incalculable in a Sentence

incalculable

adjective
  • The extent of the damage is incalculable.
  • The future consequences of their decision are incalculable.
  • The collection is of incalculable value to historians.
  • For the families — and the state — the loss from the war on terror is incalculable.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
  • My heart goes out to him for the incalculable loss of his beloved mother.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The costs of this alone were incalculable, quite aside from the widespread failures and fraud.
    James MacKintosh, WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • But the benefits will be incalculable, and all of New York will own a share in them.
    New York Times, 8 June 2021
  • In many ways, the Wolverines say, the loss is incalculable.
    Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2020
  • In that way, the true toll of empty seats is incalculable.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2022
  • And the impact is going to be incalculable on the lives of women.
    ABC News, 8 May 2022
  • Sports are games, and games are charted with numbers, and the numbers from the past year are incalculable.
    Tim Reynolds, Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The amount these speeches have added to the sum of human dullness is incalculable.
    New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The depth of the loss of these talented and beloved teammates, classmates, and friends is incalculable.
    CBS News, 28 May 2023
  • And if Harbaugh leaves Michigan, as well, the coaching carousel could spin for weeks and cause incalculable damage on the West Coast.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • This incalculable debt starts to feel like a chokehold when the sisters fail to make the most of their opportunities.
    Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • For so many of us who loved her dearly, the feeling of personal loss is incalculable.
    Ryan Park, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Great Photo is ultimately about the incalculable value of truth, and the pains that might be required to reach it.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Smith and the union got creamed in that CBA, giving away concessions such as the rookie wage scale that cost the players an incalculable amount of money and leverage over the past decade.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • Then there’s the incalculable damage in severe illness, cases that linger for months, and the hospitals stretched to the breaking point.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • But the scientists had already shipped off a resource of incalculable value: the seeds of the most important crops on Earth.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
  • That amplified the incalculable value of a return to a lodge where the owners, Kathie Taylor and Brent Williamson, have become friends.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
  • Covid-19 has done incalculable damage to America and to the world.
    William Winkenwerder, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • In the minds of students, the difference is incalculable.
    Ellen Dennis, al, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The experience led her to never go back to that club, an incalculable loss.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Consternation over the loss of goods rather than the incalculable loss of eyes, limbs, and lives points to the bedrock realities on which modern policing is built.
    Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Their future is the real wild card in this equation: If too many of them die off, the loss to people who love movies, in communities big and small, will be incalculable.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The costs, already visible through the flames and floods that now mark our weather cycle, are at this stage nearly incalculable.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • There are currently more than 3 million patents in force in the United States and an incalculable number of agendas at play.
    Nat Watkins, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The reputational damage to Japan, though, on top of the loss of money, would be incalculable.
    New York Times, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Despite those increases, the state is still digging out from its 10-week shutdown and trying to go through incalculable amounts of mail.
    oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2020

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