How to Use the unthinkable in a Sentence

the unthinkable

noun
  • Bigelow takes the unthinkable and puts it right in front of us.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Who but Math to do the unthinkable and wake her up?
    — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • There’s a place for humor even amid the unthinkable.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
  • This brings us to the law as a barrier to the unthinkable.
    — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Then the unthinkable happened, as the ball dropped into the hole.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Sarah Basore wants young adults to think the unthinkable.
    — Debra Skodack, Kansas City Star, 12 Nov. 2025
  • His wife and girls just lived through the unthinkable and unimaginable.
    — Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 19 July 2024
  • Ideally, this leads to a place where even the unthinkable doesn’t seem senseless.
    — Jane Ciabattari june 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
  • Nicole Avant and her family have lived through the unthinkable.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 1 May 2023
  • His only chance of sticking around is to do the unthinkable and complete the reverse sweep.
    — Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Fighting her way back into the match from a set down, the 18-year-old pulled off the unthinkable.
    — Manasi Pathak, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Even so, three-body theorists see a number of ways that the unthinkable might be avoided.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • So Speaks did the unthinkable in an age of casual hangouts and hookups.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Lil Jon is grieving the unthinkable loss of his son, Nathan Smith.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Can a Boomer do the unthinkable and win a national title?
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • As the former beauty queen walked along the side of the dark road to her parents’ house, the unthinkable happened.
    — Kc Baker, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
  • When the unthinkable happens every day?
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Who wants to contemplate the unthinkable?
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But then our Marylanders did the unthinkable.
    — Paul Callahan, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2026
  • As a man trying to live intentionally in the face of the unthinkable.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Think about what that game meant to Bears fans who have pined for a playoff win and a quarterback who could do the unthinkable.
    — Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Trump has had that effect, over and over again, turning the unthinkable into the ordinary.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Things went smoothly until the plane was preparing to land and the unthinkable happened.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025
  • But this time last season, the Lakers pulled off the unthinkable by adding Doncic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • When the unthinkable happens, there’s beauty, not shame, in growing up, wising up and finding new ways to think.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Will Boston take care of business, or will Dallas do the unthinkable?
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 15 June 2024
  • Then, the unthinkable happened.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026
  • Then, the unthinkable happened.
    — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Then, the unthinkable happened.
    — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Shown on film, the view is often accompanied by haunting music meant to evoke the unthinkable crimes that took place here.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 12 June 2024

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