How to Use unaccountably in a Sentence

unaccountably

adverb

• Unaccountably, the problem was ignored.
• She was looking unaccountably upset.
• And Curry made some unaccountably sloppy plays, like a behind-the-back fourth-quarter pass that sailed out of bounds rather than into Thompson’s hands.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 20 June 2016
• Theodore skated it out and then,, unaccountably, misplayed the puck as Edmonton’s Drake Caggiula moved in.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 10 May 2017
• But the latest sales trend makes 2% look more likely than 3% (unaccountably, P&G doesn’t do decimal places).
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• This guy can’t decide whether to be interesting or not—like someone who is mostly late but every once in a while, unaccountably, on time.
  — Leslie Jamison, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Furthermore, it’s now presented halfway through the plot and unaccountably staged, divorced from the action on a nearly bare stage as if at the climax of a Michael Ball concert.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 26 May 2023
• That tube eventually comes in three sizes: large, extra-large and extra-extra-large; the first run, in small, medium and large, unaccountably saw some astronauts fitted with the wrong size.
  — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 4 June 2019
• Yet unaccountably, on the brink of the future, Marlene hesitated.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• This traditionalism, in turn, can drift into a sort of piety often elicited by the vulnerability of the very sick or the resilience of the unaccountably well.
  — Nitin K. Ahuja, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
• No president or former president should be allowed to float unaccountably above the law.
  — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 9 June 2022
• What should have been a recipe for disaster unaccountably yielded a masterpiece.
  — Dallas News, 31 July 2021
• Extreme thrift—soon to be an Olympic sport!—has proven almost unaccountably rewarding.
  — Redbook, 24 Nov. 2011
• Some stories are about the sudden forging of close friendships, which the characters find just as unaccountable as war, but now unaccountably joyous.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• Trump almost escaped the encounter without uttering an unaccountably odd remark, but couldn’t quite pull it off.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Oct. 2017
• After a few unpleasant incidents — a few years ago, for instance, someone unaccountably stole the F1, F2, F3 and Y keys — there was talk about moving the monument to a different city.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 3 July 2018
• Investment, unaccountably low at 20% or less of GDP for 15 years, is also finally perking up.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2017
• But when Lehman Brothers, a firm about 50% larger than Bear, began to totter six months later, the Treasury unaccountably reversed its policy.
  — Peter J. Wallison, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2018
• The chemistry between these two attractive people and fine actors is unaccountably bad.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• Superheroes are always unaccountably dodging bullets and getting to the bomb in the nick of time; the greatest superpower of all is being the protagonist and having the writers on your side.
  — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 11 July 2018
• But then the husband, an unaccountably stubble-faced corporate attorney, shows up one day at his firm, and his boss is popping bottles to toast his kid’s acceptance to Princeton.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
• To behold those lines for the first time was to see language unaccountably capturing emotions in a way unfamiliar in recent American prose.
  — Rick Moody, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• Critics say that rail officials are seeking a blank check from state coffers, and that their timeline for completion is stretching unaccountably into the future.
  — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2022
• One player reported that his supply of pills had, unaccountably, dwindled.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Marvel, too, at the subtle but unaccountably powerful opening up of imaginary space generated by those slivers of dark gray between the sturdy verticals just to the left of center.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
• Billy Rancher was many things: charming, funny, at times unaccountably distant.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• In Finn’s recollection, Ranieri could be insensitive, sarcastic, and generally oblivious about grating on Finn’s nerves; on the other hand, Finn was unaccountably grouchy and quick-tempered.
  — Darryn King, VanityFair.com, 2 Mar. 2017
• Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Angry speculations and accusations filled the information vacuum, a vacuum that authorities also unaccountably filled with misinformation and odd demurrals of their own.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2021

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