How to Use unfathomable in a Sentence

unfathomable

adjective
  • His behavior is completely unfathomable.
  • Such prices would have been unfathomable just a few years ago.
    — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For her to be killed in such a senseless way is unfathomable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Eighteen months ago, a scene like that would have been unfathomable.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 June 2021
  • Even a month ago, such questions would have been unfathomable.
    — Sonja Sharp Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2021
  • The woman who set out to make her own pantry might have found all of that unfathomable.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Feb. 2021
  • This is a moral failure on a scale that would have been unfathomable just a few years ago.
    — Senator Tammy Duckworth, Marie Claire, 2 July 2018
  • So to not have caught this at some earlier stage was just unfathomable to me.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 13 June 2026
  • The idea that his brain is just average is unfathomable to him.
    — Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The amount of work that is going on behind the scenes is unfathomable.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2017
  • Grace is an unfathomable kindness that often comes just in the nick of time.
    — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
  • For reasons unfathomable to me or anyone who knows me, my name is on the list.
    — Michele Gorman, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2015
  • Not only that—these men were living in the face of unfathomable loss.
    — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Not having him as a part of me anymore felt unfathomable.
    — Miriam Finder Annenberg, CNN Money, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Now it's being exposed in a way that not long ago would have been unfathomable.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • That level of wealth, all owned by just one person, was once unfathomable.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 12 June 2026
  • Many of you have already forsworn, what seemed at the time, to be the unfathomable.
    — Adrienne M. Buckley, Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2020
  • For those who remain and those who have returned, the day-to-day can be unfathomable.
    — Monica Hersher, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2022
  • In a small van with one pup already, the thought of taking in a street dog seemed unfathomable.
    — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Stone turned to sand, then cacti, then trees, on and on to distant, unfathomable peaks.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The moves to fund a founder who has failed more than a few times and continues to fail– is unfathomable.
    — Hessie Jones, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • This is an almost unfathomable chasm.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025
  • To me, a world without birds is simply unfathomable.
    — ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The idea of being openly gay was unfathomable to either of us.
    — John Paul Brammer, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The steely husks stood sentinel over unfathomable loss for weeks or months until they were towed away and sold as scrap.
    — Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Just a few years ago, Cheese Bar closing would have been unfathomable.
    — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Turner slugged his first home run at home all season, an unfathomable streak broken.
    — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But in those years, my failure to write anything that lifted off the page felt unfathomable.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Instead, the trio is grappling with an unfathomable crime story that hits close to home.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Guerrero described his own unfathomable amount of pain and grief at the death of his longtime close friend.
    — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Aug. 2021

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