How to Use inconceivable in a Sentence

inconceivable

adjective

• The fire caused an inconceivable amount of damage.
• After coming this far, to quit now would be inconceivable.
• Grain and coal in inconceivable volumes were sent there and then off to the world.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• Not so long ago, the idea would have been inconceivable.
  — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2017
• The way the Rangers are going, that's not inconceivable.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 25 Apr. 2018
• There was a time, Ms. Canik said, when leaving the parish had been inconceivable.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• This loss would have been inconceivable during the first two months of the season.
  — Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2022
• As McLane notes, a year ago Kelce was on the trade block, but moving him now would be inconceivable.
  — Rob Tornoe, Philly.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Green can score from inconceivable angles on drives to the rim.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 25 Dec. 2022
• Not long ago, such a move would have been inconceivable.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• The inconceivable sequence of events was a source of comfort for many.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• These tragedies and the loss that follows are just inconceivable and heart wrenching.
  — Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News, 18 May 2018
• And yet there is a line, one that is almost inconceivable, even to the men who accept the risks and the fans who celebrate them for it.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
• That it would be used to edit the genes of patients in less than a decade was simply inconceivable then.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 3 Nov. 2022
• The Princess Bride' (1987) Leaving this classic off the list would be inconceivable!
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
• In his new book, Richard Lloyd Parry writes about death on an inconceivable scale.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• The scale of what lay ahead was hard to fathom, a variety of doom that felt both inconceivable and inevitable.
  — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• That has opened the door to something once thought inconceivable: that Sinn Fein could emerge as the largest party, with the right to appoint the first minister.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 June 2021
• In most eras of history, and in many parts of the world today, such freedom would be inconceivable.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• Making the jump to a person was unheard of, but not inconceivable.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• And if the financial price of that seems inconceivable?
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 26 Mar. 2020
• So the idea that one of the puppies from Puerto Rico could slip home in Newton's coat wasn't too inconceivable.
  — Andrea Rumbaugh, Houston Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2018
• The answer was a nearly inconceivable 275 million, just from the bombs’ blasts.
  — Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2020
• To end in a war with China would hardly be inconceivable.
  — Eduardo Porter, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017
• The summit was almost inconceivable a few months ago, after a year when the bordering countries seemed on the verge of war.
  — Fox News, 29 Apr. 2018
• Pulling Brennan was a definite panic move to avoid an inconceivable loss and the complete alienation of the fan base in Week 4.
  — Alex Hickey, ajc, 24 Sep. 2017
• The pause has been an inconceivable loss for many athletes across the world, 5️⃣ while the future of some events will be in the hands of casual participants.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2020
• Compared with the bounty of the past 10 years, that number seems almost inconceivable.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• But if the Spurs wind up pulling off the inconceivable, Friday provided a template.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• When editing that down to a single hour proved to be inconceivable, a decision was made for the episode to be split into two, requiring additional scenes for a cliffhanger and proper opening to Episode 2.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024