How to Use inexplicable in a Sentence

inexplicable

adjective
  • He had a series of seemingly inexplicable accidents.
  • There are few things that bring me pure, inexplicable joy.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • This one has to be the most inexplicable game plan of the Malzahn era.
    — Kevin Scarbinsky | [email protected], AL.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Here’s to more of the inexplicable lying ahead, for her and us both.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2022
  • There have been just enough moments of wild, inexplicable joy to keep hope alive.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • Somehow, each of those three has been more inexplicable than the last.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Here was a creature that would choose its own inexplicable way.
    — Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • This filled me with an inexplicable dread.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Every once in a while a movie proves to be truly inexplicable.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2017
  • Or the inexplicable black line drawn down the center of her forehead?
    — Meirav Devash, Allure, 10 Sep. 2017
  • But for some inexplicable reason, Arie just can’t seem to let go.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Or maybe inexplicable is the word.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Of all the things that go wrong here -- and there are plenty of them -- the most inexplicable is how generic the whole thing feels.
    — Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021
  • What inexplicable twists of fate led her to this point, to skinning helpless puppies to make some fur coats?
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • The sedan showed up the very next morning, for some inexplicable reason, near the home where the couple live.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Made even more inexplicable by his own background.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Fox, who attempted an inexplicable layup rather than dribbling out the clock, and blocked the shot.
    — Kyle Wagner, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • For some inexplicable reason, the driver just failed to notice the stop sign.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The sector is at the leading edge of an almost inexplicable trend.
    — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Some who did attributed it to the play of light and shadow across the white canvas, not to inexplicable forces.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
  • But in an instant of inexplicable ruin, the ball bounced off his glove and trickled behind home plate.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In a sport where pucks often take wicked, seemingly inexplicable bounces and the area in front of and around a goal crease can look like chaos.
    — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Tottenham have this inexplicable knack of bringing the worst out of them.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The inexplicable error cost him 20 seconds and put him out of the running in a flash.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2020
  • The film explores the inexplicable love between a man and a woman with no memory of the past.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Every one of her songs is packed with mind-blowing runs and inexplicable high notes because she's just got the pipes to handle it all.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 9 Oct. 2017
  • And this, too, was a play that memorably made room for the numinous, the inexplicable.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Chuck Pagano makes an inexplicable decision late in the game that costs the Colts.
    — Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2017
  • My three best friends have decided to completely cut me out of their lives for some inexplicable reason.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The stunning, inexplicable start led to plenty of questions, most of all from Shiffrin.
    — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022

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