How to Use unquantifiable in a Sentence

unquantifiable

adjective
  • None of this means that all bets are off and the pandemic is unquantifiable.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2020
  • That lies in a more unquantifiable realm having to do with ideas and the ways in which they are transmitted.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021
  • But to see yourself as the savior of a world threatened by unquantifiable evil?
    TIME.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • But there is something so unquantifiable about what Galloway does on the court.
    Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Dec. 2022
  • While the human cost is unquantifiable, the economic price tag isn't.
    Paul Hockenos, CNN, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Yet, there is something unquantifiable about the closer's role, even if the save statistic could stand a bit of refinement.
    Bill Shaikin, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • This nation has borne witness to decades of bloodshed and an unquantifiable legacy of pain.
    Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 2 Mar. 2018
  • And those have an unquantifiable effect on both his team and its opponents.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2022
  • That part was unquantifiable; his struggles at the plate, however, were.
    Dallas News, 27 May 2022
  • But there were also unquantifiable aspects Kopp had to face about adjusting to a new program.
    Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Starting and growing a business comes with all manners of hurdles, and there is one area that is unquantifiable: brand equity.
    Mauricio Rosero, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • But while overall demand isn’t expected to slow now, tech faces more unquantifiable risks.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
  • By the end of the first period, the Stars possessed both unquantifiable factors — momentum and energy.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • And that’s before getting into his unquantifiable impact at the other end.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 24 Mar. 2022
  • On the road, in a hostile environment, with a boisterous fan base and the home team charging from behind, teammates noticed that unquantifiable trait.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
  • To refuse the wishes of someone who had conferred an unquantifiable recognition on us, through the status of his own legitimacy, tore me apart.
    Jann S. Wenner, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2022
  • On the flip side, even foods with a less-than-ideal nutritional breakdown can have unquantifiable health benefits.
    Ellie Krieger, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2019
  • The human and economic toll taken by this pandemic is unquantifiable, and the full impact may never be truly known.
    Tim McCartney, al, 12 May 2021
  • There are other, unquantifiable costs: Britain won’t enjoy the lower tariffs the EU negotiates in new free trade agreements.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
  • The scope is not surprising, given that the Academy has a virtually unquantifiable number of objects from which to draw.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • For some, the gardens are also fulfilling something unquantifiable: a longing for land.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Through Caro, Hazzard continually seeks out the rules of Englishness, that unquantifiable and intangible substance that people thought gave them the right to carve the world up.
    Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The damage to Epic’s ongoing business and to its reputation and trust with its customers will be unquantifiable and irreparable.
    Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2020
  • There is a certain but unquantifiable dignity to being treated equally under the law.
    Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2018
  • There’s also the unquantifiable: not only are the kids alright—they’re helping humanity save it from itself.
    Wired, 8 Nov. 2019
  • But the alternative to being vaccinated is to risk a nearly 1 in 100 chance of death, as well as unquantifiable but still worrying threats of heart disease, lung damage and even brain damage.
    New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
  • There is also an unquantifiable ingredient to the team’s success.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Still less visible are the indirect costs of conflict, such as presenteeism and absence, as well as the unquantifiable personal impact of conflict.
    Anna Shields, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • One day soon, the Martin Mull school of thought—which preaches music’s intrinsic, unquantifiable mysteriousness—might be run out of business.
    Luke Ottenhof, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2020
  • There is an unquantifiable toll in a class of contenders that never existed: trades not made, courses recharted, and luxury taxes averted, all because Golden State loomed.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 3 July 2019

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