How to Use unforeseeable in a Sentence

unforeseeable

adjective
  • But still they are treated by the state as unforeseeable events.
    — Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Just like that, the tenor of this unforeseeable season changed for the worse again.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • But unforeseeable events may mean that the at-home spouse wants to return to the job market.
    — Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Either way, their fate lies in an unforeseeable future.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • With no endgame in sight, the shutdown is expected to roll on for the unforeseeable future.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Plants in your yard and even inside your home are also at risk of facing harsh climates and unforeseeable weather events.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Beijing could stretch out its response for weeks, even months, with unforeseeable consequences.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • While professionals do their best to predict what damage storms will bring, some things are unforeseeable.
    — Jordan Green, The Tennessean, 8 Oct. 2024
  • For aspirants to the big leagues, the stresses are ever-present and often unforeseeable.
    — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 16 May 2018
  • But these acts of violence were not the result of unforeseeable happenstance.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Keep your minds and hearts open to life’s endless and unforeseeable possibilities.
    — Time Staff, Time, 14 May 2017
  • The aftermath of Biggie’s debut is as unforeseeable as his rise.
    — Stereo Williams, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The Aztecs found two of their most remarkable seasons muted by the unforeseeable global health crisis.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • These benefits ultimately help people reduce the costs of unforeseeable or hard-to-plan-for events.
    — Christian Weller, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • An unwieldy game can have unforeseeable consequences.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The capacity and tools exist to address each of these problems; none are novel, nor unforeseeable for the landlord.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • This year’s festival, which will be watched mainly at home, will be different—though the differences will be distinct and unforeseeable for each film.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2020
  • What viewers didn't know was the pain behind it all — a pain that involved separation from her family and an unforeseeable future at home.
    — Thatiana Diaz, refinery29.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • And all that doesn’t even count the unforeseeable but certainly likely incredible speed at which new media can explode onto the scene.
    — David Doty, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The idea was to empower the president to respond quickly to urgent, often unforeseeable crises.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • To say that the emergence of Covid-19 two years ago resulted in a chain of unforeseeable consequences is putting it mildly.
    — Kristin Savilia, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Cedar Fair lawyers, meanwhile, have argued in court documents that the pandemic was an unforeseeable, once-in-a-lifetime event.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 24 May 2022
  • They got paid, though certainly not what would soon become the series’ fair market value — the show’s ceiling was unforeseeable when the paperwork was signed.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The families say the July tragedy was not an unforeseeable act of nature but the result of years of dangerous decisions.
    — Katey Psencik, Austin American Statesman, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The price for this ability to outrun inflation by a sizable margin and compound wealth has been periods of painful and unforeseeable declines.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
  • From the beginning there were concerns about the supply of food, an apparently unforeseeable consequence of giving it away for free to all comers.
    — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 2 July 2020
  • Yet the unforeseeable wildcard was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
    — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2022
  • To hear Daboll tell it, the injury to Gano on Sunday’s opening kickoff was an entirely unforeseeable event.
    — Howard Megdal, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Her kickoff event was overshadowed by the release of the first snippets of the Mueller report, an unforeseeable development.
    — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • References to these players are designed to suggest that Upshaw’s death was not an unforeseeable fluke but rather a foreseeable harm that could have been prevented.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 1 June 2018

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