How to Use unaccountably in a Sentence

unaccountably

adverb
  • Unaccountably, the problem was ignored.
  • She was looking unaccountably upset.
  • Then a whole bank of dimmers on the switchboard unaccountably fused.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • What should have been a recipe for disaster unaccountably yielded a masterpiece.
    — Dallas News, 31 July 2021
  • No president or former president should be allowed to float unaccountably above the law.
    — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 9 June 2022
  • This guy can’t decide whether to be interesting or not—like someone who is mostly late but every once in a while, unaccountably, on time.
    — Leslie Jamison, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The chemistry between these two attractive people and fine actors is unaccountably bad.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • One player reported that his supply of pills had, unaccountably, dwindled.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Trump almost escaped the encounter without uttering an unaccountably odd remark, but couldn’t quite pull it off.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Melody, so unaccountably a product of unconscious forces, had placed his ego in abeyance, allowing a forbearing tenderness to emerge.
    — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Yet unaccountably, on the brink of the future, Marlene hesitated.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Some stories are about the sudden forging of close friendships, which the characters find just as unaccountable as war, but now unaccountably joyous.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • And Curry made some unaccountably sloppy plays, like a behind-the-back fourth-quarter pass that sailed out of bounds rather than into Thompson’s hands.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 20 June 2016
  • But the latest sales trend makes 2% look more likely than 3% (unaccountably, P&G doesn’t do decimal places).
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Theodore skated it out and then,, unaccountably, misplayed the puck as Edmonton’s Drake Caggiula moved in.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 10 May 2017
  • Critics say that rail officials are seeking a blank check from state coffers, and that their timeline for completion is stretching unaccountably into the future.
    — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2022
  • To behold those lines for the first time was to see language unaccountably capturing emotions in a way unfamiliar in recent American prose.
    — Rick Moody, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
  • This traditionalism, in turn, can drift into a sort of piety often elicited by the vulnerability of the very sick or the resilience of the unaccountably well.
    — Nitin K. Ahuja, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The recipient of a recent glow-up, Barnes is unimaginably wealthy and therefore unaccountably powerful.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Furthermore, it’s now presented halfway through the plot and unaccountably staged, divorced from the action on a nearly bare stage as if at the climax of a Michael Ball concert.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • Superheroes are always unaccountably dodging bullets and getting to the bomb in the nick of time; the greatest superpower of all is being the protagonist and having the writers on your side.
    — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 11 July 2018
  • Marvel, too, at the subtle but unaccountably powerful opening up of imaginary space generated by those slivers of dark gray between the sturdy verticals just to the left of center.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Investment, unaccountably low at 20% or less of GDP for 15 years, is also finally perking up.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Not two years later this tower was to collapse precipitately under its own weight into a pyramid of dust and rubble, only to be rebuilt later, in, unaccountably, all its former gracelessness.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But when Lehman Brothers, a firm about 50% larger than Bear, began to totter six months later, the Treasury unaccountably reversed its policy.
    — Peter J. Wallison, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Barker tried for a twenty-eighth time before switching, unaccountably, to sixty-four million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars—as if that might finally shift a collector’s appetite and avert one of the most expensive auction failures of all time.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Welding the hilarious farce of the first to a sense of fierce outrage over the second was a risk Davis pulled off beautifully, as this season’s nigh-perfect revival, unaccountably its first on Broadway, demonstrated.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • After a few unpleasant incidents — a few years ago, for instance, someone unaccountably stole the F1, F2, F3 and Y keys — there was talk about moving the monument to a different city.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 3 July 2018
  • In Finn’s recollection, Ranieri could be insensitive, sarcastic, and generally oblivious about grating on Finn’s nerves; on the other hand, Finn was unaccountably grouchy and quick-tempered.
    — Darryn King, VanityFair.com, 2 Mar. 2017

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