How to Use unfathomable in a Sentence

unfathomable

adjective
  • His behavior is completely unfathomable.
  • Her voice fades away, as if the prospect is unfathomable.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
  • Such prices would have been unfathomable just a few years ago.
    Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For her to be killed in such a senseless way is unfathomable.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The moves to fund a founder who has failed more than a few times and continues to fail– is unfathomable.
    Hessie Jones, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • For those who remain and those who have returned, the day-to-day can be unfathomable.
    Monica Hersher, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The prospect of losing his 33 cows, house and trailer was unfathomable.
    New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The amount of weaponry available to a country that may be on the verge of civil war is unfathomable.
    Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Stone turned to sand, then cacti, then trees, on and on to distant, unfathomable peaks.
    Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Baylor, which ranked ninth in the poll, suffered an unfathomable 42-31 loss to Texas State.
    Selby Lopez, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The idea that his brain is just average is unfathomable to him.
    Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The intrigue of the unfathomable, the obsession with the unlikely.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • For some people, the idea of putting in any more effort than grabbing a protein bar on the way out the door is unfathomable.
    Grace McCarty, SELF, 4 Oct. 2023
  • This moment would have been unfathomable for most of these UConn players a year or two ago.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 7 June 2022
  • The idea of the Grammys not inviting them to perform, anyway, is unfathomable.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
  • This question would have been unfathomable a few years ago.
    Max Raskin, WSJ, 22 June 2022
  • To think that a child can contribute as much as Logan is just unfathomable to him.
    Chris Ip, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2021
  • But to some young people who land in her office, the thought of not keeping up a Snapchat streak is almost unfathomable.
    Washington Post, 9 May 2022
  • The Rangers finished with a postseason-record and nearly unfathomable 11-0 record on the road, capping the Fall Classic with three straight wins in the desert.
    CBS News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The Colts’ season ended in a complete collapse after their unfathomable loss to the Jaguars.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Matching up against Paris Saint-Germain; a club who played in the final three years ago would have been unfathomable to Magpies fans of the past.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Some blame the government, some seem resigned to this unfathomable fate.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
  • One of the unknowns of that novella is the reason the boy, Miles, has been expelled from school—that the boy could be bad is unfathomable to the governess because of his charm.
    Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The Stanislavchuks are like many Ukrainians these days, decent people struggling to endure the unfathomable with no map to guide them.
    New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • But the distance the country has come on 8% growth year-on-year for 25 years, that kind of compound interest growth is unfathomable.
    Diana Tsai, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Drakeo’s death — like Ketchy’s — comes during a period of unfathomable loss in hip-hop.
    Paul Thompson, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Bankers for whom working from home was once unfathomable now can’t imagine going back to the office full-time.
    New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Bankers—for whom working from home was once unfathomable—now can’t imagine going back to the office full time.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The Beavers opened the season talking openly about winning a Pac-12 title, something that has been unfathomable over the past decade.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Then the writers had to solve the challenge of making unfathomable scales of time and change feel intelligible, at least a bit.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023

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