How to Use the unthinkable in a Sentence

the unthinkable

noun

• No more Roald Dahl meant the unthinkable: no more books by Roald Dahl.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 20 Feb. 2023
• So Speaks did the unthinkable in an age of casual hangouts and hookups.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Nicole Avant and her family have lived through the unthinkable.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 1 May 2023
• The creators of this HBO series had a huge task before them: make the unthinkable real.
  — Valerie Wu, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
• But in a statement, Trump declared the shooting an act of evil, and thanked God for preventing the unthinkable.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024
• In the season 4 finale, Joe does the unthinkable and kills Kate's father, Tom Lockwood.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 12 Mar. 2023
• Will Boston take care of business, or will Dallas do the unthinkable?
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 15 June 2024
• Even so, three-body theorists see a number of ways that the unthinkable might be avoided.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• But then the unthinkable happens, and Gus Kitko is chosen to join a small group of robots who actually want to save the world.
  — USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• Trump has had that effect, over and over again, turning the unthinkable into the ordinary.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
• When the unthinkable happens, there’s beauty, not shame, in growing up, wising up and finding new ways to think.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• The Pioneers talked about how that 1998 Harvard team pulled off the unthinkable beating Stanford on its home floor.
  — Janie McCauley, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• Shown on film, the view is often accompanied by haunting music meant to evoke the unthinkable crimes that took place here.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 12 June 2024
• A little nudge over dinner one evening from someone who had worked at the royal household was enough to get the famed author plotting: Could the unthinkable be done?
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• When the vacation goes awry, May must do the unthinkable in order to save her husband and kids: seek help from a hum with questionable motives.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 22 May 2024
• When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life--until the unthinkable happens.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 9 Aug. 2023
• At a hallowed piece of ground that has become synonymous with the unthinkable horrors of war, the final chapter has not been written.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
• For nearly half a decade, Lê returned to her home country once a year, venturing further and further into what was once the unthinkable.
  — Joshua Glass, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• The reason: If the economy turns south — or the unthinkable happens and the United States does default on its debt — those high-risk debt instruments will come under the most pressure.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 17 May 2023
• Tom is the more easygoing, reasonable-minded spouse, the one who clings in vain to normalcy even after the unthinkable has happened.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• Bre Hutchinson was listening to music and dancing with friends when the unthinkable happened.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 19 Apr. 2023
• The closer the United States gets to the X-date of actually running out of money, the more investors are forced to confront the unthinkable: A disastrous debt default.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
• According to officials, this was Watts’ motive for the unthinkable crimes.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
• As fentanyl deaths keep surging, more and more parents are finding their way into a bona fide movement to make political sense of the unthinkable.
  — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
• Fans flock to stores on release day to do the unthinkable: purchase physical copies of her albums that come in multiple collectible versions.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• If the unthinkable became a horrifying reality, if a life-and-death teeter-totter or crushing financial pressure pushed them to the brink, the teen would shoulder the weight of the world.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
• Yet the unthinkable happens at a frequency that terrifies me.
  — Cathleen Calkins, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2024
• Later they are caught experiencing the unthinkable: a dinner with their prison guards.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
• Though Clarke was a seasoned competitor, Hall entered the history books by doing the unthinkable: staying put in the driver’s seat and piloting the entirety of the 24-hour race.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2023
• Lefty & his teams accomplished the unthinkable & catapulted a program, college & small N.C. town to new heights.
  — Kevin Dotson, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024