How to Use unexplainable in a Sentence

unexplainable

adjective
  • Good luck to him when called on to explain the unexplainable.
    Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • That's when Spicer came out to try and explain the unexplainable.
    Gloria Borger, CNN, 11 May 2017
  • Image The unexplainable record, the over-the-top pregame theatrics, even the hot climate.
    Gerald Narciso, New York Times, 2 June 2018
  • Inter is a team that has made five games bad, then went to Genoa on a very tough field and won 0-5: unexplainable.
    SI.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The ability to move objects in cool and unexplainable ways, to break arms and ankles.
    Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 5 Mar. 2024
  • There are no tantrums, no traffic jams, no unexplainable screams from the backseat.
    Jill Terreri Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
  • Not devoting time to the tasks at hand is unexplainable.
    Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2017
  • Nick Risner, for reasons even unexplainable to him at the time, got off work 15 minutes early, which was a rare thing.
    J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Madison Bumgarner has an unexplainable split regarding the Dodgers, just the luck of the draw.
    Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 9 June 2019
  • Then there’s 6 percent left that is unexplainable, that is probably the true, true bias.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 15 Aug. 2018
  • None of that happened and Liddle was left to explain the unexplainable mistake by two young players.
    Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2019
  • While Pac may be one of the most prolific rappers of all time, there remains one eerie mystery: his unexplainable death.
    Lauren Alvarez, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The event started in 1987; since then, visitors have been told tales of unexplainable incidents in the carriage house.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2021
  • That would be a whopping, and unexplainable 153% difference between the two cities.
    al, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Promises made in public, only to fade with time and excuses .... even in a unexplainable tragedy ...
    Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The world is full of wonderful – but sometimes unexplainable – things.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al.com, 13 June 2019
  • As music lovers are able to once again reunite and bask in the unexplainable feeling of being at a show where everyone is connected, the hits of 2021 soundtrack the way.
    Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Miguel Ordeñana grew up near Griffith Park with an unexplainable passion for wildlife and few adults in his life to nurture that interest.
    Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The internet, predictably, is full of attempts to explain the unexplainable.
    Naomi Fry, The Cut, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The upcoming Hopes and Dreams record is just that, a group of baby-soft lullabies about the beautiful and unexplainable bond between mothers and their kids.
    Wandera Hussein, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The new waves travel three times faster than Rossby-Haurwitz waves, and that speed is currently unexplainable with our current models of the Sun.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 Mar. 2022
  • But there’s something unexplainable as to why their bats make elevator music in front of their loud, faithful fans.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Newsom and his advisers are trying to explain the unexplainable — something that never could be sold in a 30-second TV ad.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • On Crockett Island, there is no bent-neck lady or lady in the lake to scare us, but there are unexplainable things happening, from dead feral cats to demon eyes glowing in the shadows.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • This priest seems to miraculously arrive on Crockett out of nowhere, inciting a string of unexplainable events.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • In almost every ancient culture in this region of the world, legends were created to explain the unexplainable.
    Debbie Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Brammer’s gift is his uncanny ability to put into words a feeling or an idea that feels unexplainable.
    Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Even the area’s nonhuman residents—from pets to local wildlife—have shown unexplainable symptoms.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 July 2024
  • In addition to this scene sowing the seeds of a conflict between Natalie and Lottie over Travis, the question of whether Javi's alive leans into the show's theme of searching for explanations of the unexplainable.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Not only did people try to imitate Drake's peculiar gestures on the dance floor and in videos, Viners layered in graphics that sought to make sense of his unexplainable movements.
    Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 28 Oct. 2016

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