How to Use unthinkable in a Sentence

unthinkable

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• Just as in the bad old days of the Cold War, we are being forced to think the unthinkable.
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022
• Back in the old-timey days, killing off the star of a series was unthinkable.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024
• Back in the old-timey days, killing off the star of a series was unthinkable.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
• A decade ago, a split quiver was unthinkable for all but a few.
  — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• And in the fall of 1972, the Miami Dolphins did the unthinkable.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• The idea of mocking them to their faces would have been unthinkable.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
• The specter of a debt default is no longer unthinkable.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Last year, the idea of a rock concert that size would have been unthinkable.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2021
• The notion of not having a train route up the coast, for the most part, has long been unthinkable in San Diego.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
• Just 10 years ago, a line like that would be unthinkable.
  — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2022
• In those days, the Final Four was played on back to back days, unthinkable now.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• The idea of not reaching for the heavens while trapped in the hell of my apartment was unthinkable.
  — Ari Marcopoulos; Styling By Miguel Enamorado, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 July 2021
• Rhaenyra does the unthinkable in this week’s episode, and she’s not disowned or dead — yet.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2022
• That would’ve been unthinkable in the nineteen-fifties.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2022
• Just six or seven years ago the idea would have been unthinkable.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 24 Aug. 2021
• For a band as extreme as ours, that would have been unthinkable.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024
• Less than a year ago, such a broadcast would have been unthinkable.
  — Salar Abdoh, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2023
• That would always be unthinkable, but even more so this time of year.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
• For those of us who grew up on network TV, this seems unthinkable.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• Joel has done something unthinkable—and he's done it out of love.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 12 Mar. 2023
• Yet to others, the idea that the swastika could be redeemed is unthinkable.
  — Deepa Bharath, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
• That kind of support would have been unthinkable a few decades ago.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Monday against the Rays, the Red Sox absorbed an unthinkable loss.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2021
• It's been just over half a year since Vladimir Putin did the unthinkable and invaded Ukraine.
  — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2022
• The deployment of Patriot missiles to Ukraine would have been unthinkable at the start of the war.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2022
• Two decades ago, such a weekend in Auburn was unthinkable.
  — al, 2 Dec. 2022
• The damage that he's done to this country is unthinkable.
  — Erin Doherty, Axios, 19 July 2024
• Being benched in the fourth game seemed unthinkable when the Hurricanes kicked off the season.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2022
• But such revelry for Cuba’s outcasts, for the first time allowed to be unbound, comes at an unthinkable price.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
• This unthinkable but all too real evil has been partly underwritten by the tax payments of the Western corporations that have chosen to remain in Russia.
  — Nezir Sinani, Fortune Europe, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025