How to Use inconceivable in a Sentence

inconceivable

adjective
  • The fire caused an inconceivable amount of damage.
  • After coming this far, to quit now would be inconceivable.
  • Grain and coal in inconceivable volumes were sent there and then off to the world.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Green can score from inconceivable angles on drives to the rim.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 25 Dec. 2022
  • This loss would have been inconceivable during the first two months of the season.
    — Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The inconceivable sequence of events was a source of comfort for many.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • These tragedies and the loss that follows are just inconceivable and heart wrenching.
    — Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News, 18 May 2018
  • But even getting to the point of a plea deal would have seemed inconceivable if not for what happened last week.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2024
  • But that now seems inconceivable because three Democrats dropped out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • But that now seems inconceivable because three Democrats dropped out.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
  • That it would be used to edit the genes of patients in less than a decade was simply inconceivable then.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Making the jump to a person was unheard of, but not inconceivable.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Finding an expanse of desert in coastal Maine may seem inconceivable.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2021
  • But Maile’s presence there—let alone her warm welcome— would have once been inconceivable.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2018
  • Many of the older women seemed to find her presence inconceivable.
    — NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The scale of what lay ahead was hard to fathom, a variety of doom that felt both inconceivable and inevitable.
    — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In most eras of history, and in many parts of the world today, such freedom would be inconceivable.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • In his new book, Richard Lloyd Parry writes about death on an inconceivable scale.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • And yet there is a line, one that is almost inconceivable, even to the men who accept the risks and the fans who celebrate them for it.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The idea of directly working with players on the field was inconceivable.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
  • After all, there was a time when a sub-three-second zero-to-60 time was inconceivable.
    — Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
  • As McLane notes, a year ago Kelce was on the trade block, but moving him now would be inconceivable.
    — Rob Tornoe, Philly.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • These types of crimes were inconceivable just a few years ago, but the alarming number of people being harmed by them today need help.
    — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The summit was almost inconceivable a few months ago, after a year when the bordering countries seemed on the verge of war.
    — Fox News, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The upshot of all this is that vast sums of money are now being channeled to fight climate change—sums that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The answer was a nearly inconceivable 275 million, just from the bombs’ blasts.
    — Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2020
  • Compared with the bounty of the past 10 years, that number seems almost inconceivable.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • But if the Spurs wind up pulling off the inconceivable, Friday provided a template.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • So the idea that one of the puppies from Puerto Rico could slip home in Newton's coat wasn't too inconceivable.
    — Andrea Rumbaugh, Houston Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2018
  • An entire plethora of AR apps is cropping up that have the potential to make homes smarter in ways that were inconceivable just a few years ago.
    — Mark Vena, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021

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