How to Use unimaginable in a Sentence

unimaginable

adjective
  • This technology would have been unimaginable five years ago.
  • This is an unimaginable tragedy for all of us.
    — Katie Hill, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Any of these events would have been unimaginable just a month ago.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Such protests would have been unimaginable just a few months ago.
    — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • This was unimaginable not that long ago.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • So things that were unimaginable can change.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 3 June 2026
  • This was unimaginable last year.
    — Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That is a strain on them and their resources that is unimaginable.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 16 May 2020
  • For my wife and me, to endure that would have been unimaginable.
    — Josh Replogle, CNN, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Such open dissent would have been unimaginable just a few months ago.
    — Yuqi Na, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The death of any young person is an unimaginable tragedy.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
  • And it’s inspired a sense of joy in her own life that once was unimaginable.
    — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Just five years ago, the need for such action would have been unimaginable.
    — Anthony W. Marx, Dennis M. Walcott, TIME, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Some people take these lessons to lengths that might seem unimaginable.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Rowe said the bill aims to address a crime that seemed unimaginable a few years ago.
    — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • That was a joke, an unimaginable event, when the show aired 17 years ago.
    — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2023
  • What Pelosi has done and what Schumer has done is unimaginable.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But the era is unimaginable without him.
    — Stephen Galloway, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Reed did these things at levels unimaginable.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The pictures of the home are unimaginable.
    — Kerri Corrado, CBS News, 13 May 2026
  • As the sun came up on the city, the scale of the damage was almost unimaginable.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The Lord has been our strength in this unimaginable moment.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • The Lord has been our strength in this unimaginable moment.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The pain the Vesias have gone through and will be going through is unimaginable.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The thought of your dog being taken from you is unimaginable, but pet theft is on the rise.
    — Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Over the course of a season, there will be highs and lows that seem unimaginable at the onset.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Her sudden passing has left an unimaginable void in our hearts and in the lives of all who knew her.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
  • What’s happening right now would have been unimaginable not that long ago.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Just a week ago, amid some of the worst violence of the protests, such scenes were unimaginable.
    — The Economist, 25 Nov. 2019
  • For 11 years we have been forced to a life filled with unimaginable pain and heartbreak.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025

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