How to Use unknowable in a Sentence

unknowable

adjective
  • For an unknowable amount of time.
    — Weike Wang, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Maybe the truth is that this coaching stuff is kind of unknowable.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The sky was that deep, unknowable blue of late autumn.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • But the unknowable can be just as compelling.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2026
  • The big theme of this episode is about how terrible the unknowable is.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The number who have had cases blocked is unknowable but could be vast.
    — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Of course, charts do not price in the unknowable and the trend could run shorter or longer than the past.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Their tastes may be the same, but the circumstances are close to unknowable.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019
  • My heart felt stirred and shaken up, as if massaged by some great, unknowable force.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 13 May 2021
  • Philippe is remote, unknowable, even to those closest to him.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • Maybe this is just Ice Spice being cool and unknowable again.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Every hour spent in the garden, on the other hand, is awash in the unknowable.
    — Manjula Martin, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The biggest question mark for any of us comes from the unknowable future.
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The next step is preparing for the knowable and unknowable that lie ahead.
    — Jose Luis Castro, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • There are too many unknown and unknowable factors.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Some things are unknowable because there isn’t enough of an impetus to study them.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • And an unknowable number have gone to great lengths, and great expense, to preserve it.
    — Elycia Rubin, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025
  • Then, as now, Europe was at war, and the outcome was unknowable.
    — Matthew Taylor King, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The fate of the Warriors’ dynasty now hinges on the unknowable.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 10 June 2019
  • The unknowable father looms over John.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
  • That was the unknowable quality Napoleon couldn’t get hold of.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Dark, ancient, kind of unknowable.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 June 2026
  • There's the unknowable, and then there's the not-worth-knowing, and both may seem to be unworthy of the chase.
    — Philly.com, 5 July 2017
  • From the start there’s something unknowable, handed down through the centuries.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The ultimate facts of the case are right at our fingertips and unknowable.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Shows like these — full of wonder for the unknown and unknowable — keep art alive and intriguing.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Trump is leaning down to talk with Pence, and while their exchange is unknowable, there is a slight tension.
    — Julius Constantine Motal, NBC news, 15 June 2020
  • First, a racist mob stripped an almost unknowable amount of wealth from Black Tulsans overnight.
    — Aaron Morrison, Chron, 1 June 2021
  • As the last 10 years show, there is a lot that is just unknowable about the forces that will buffet the economy.
    — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The finished work lingered in Prince’s vast, prodigious, unknowable vaults for the next decade.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2021

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