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
  • The idea of a team in South Florida would have been unfathomable at the time.
    Bailey Johnson, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • And with the NFC West so loaded, a wild card seems unfathomable.
    Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The pain that this has caused me every day of my life — for close to 30 years — is unfathomable for most.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
  • Such prices would have been unfathomable just a few years ago.
    Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The woman who set out to make her own pantry might have found all of that unfathomable.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Feb. 2021
  • 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 wide seats and unfathomable legroom was tremendous.
    Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2024
  • The prospect of losing his 33 cows, house and trailer was unfathomable.
    New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Not only that—these men were living in the face of unfathomable loss.
    Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Grace is an unfathomable kindness that often comes just in the nick of time.
    Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Eighteen months ago, a scene like that would have been unfathomable.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 June 2021
  • 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
  • Just a few years ago, Cheese Bar closing would have been unfathomable.
    Michael Russell, oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The fact that Emezi wanted to be neither a man nor a woman was unfathomable.
    Washington Post, 21 June 2021
  • The idea that investors should avoid the Chinese market would’ve been unfathomable even a few months ago.
    Gregor Stuart Hunter, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The idea of being openly gay was unfathomable to either of us.
    John Paul Brammer, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The once unfathomable milestone arrives just over a year after the first US death.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Even a month ago, such questions would have been unfathomable.
    Sonja Sharp Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2021
  • 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 unfathomable tragedy which took the lives of nearly 3,000 people elicited a global response.
    Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Nino’s constant presence in these women’s lives — not just Elena and Lila — but his wife and even Silvia take up unfathomable emotional space.
    Kerensa Cadenas, IndieWire, 23 Sep. 2024

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