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Examples of unfathomable in a Sentence
His behavior is completely unfathomable.
the unfathomable reaches of space
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The Material Girl rocked the stage for right around three hours, belting out her greatest hits that span an almost unfathomable 40-year career.
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Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
Their stories were filled with unfathomable sadness.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
The number of incidents, the scale of some of these incidents is just unfathomable.
—Brie Stimson, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2024
The differences between track in the late 90s and the modern era make Wyatt’s record unfathomable.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
What goes up fast can come down just as fast, measured in decades and centuries, setting the stage for an era of population shrinkage that seems both inexorable and unfathomable.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024
Transportation and communications technologies have once again compressed time and space, accelerating and democratizing the spread of information, increasing prosperity, and connecting peoples and economies in previously unfathomable ways.
—TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
Georgia, the iconic peach state, lost some 90 percent of last year’s crop—a Georgia summer without peaches, an unfathomable thing.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
Some blame the government, some seem resigned to this unfathomable fate.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
Their stories were filled with unfathomable sadness.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
The number of incidents, the scale of some of these incidents is just unfathomable.
—Brie Stimson, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2024
The differences between track in the late 90s and the modern era make Wyatt’s record unfathomable.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
What goes up fast can come down just as fast, measured in decades and centuries, setting the stage for an era of population shrinkage that seems both inexorable and unfathomable.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024
Transportation and communications technologies have once again compressed time and space, accelerating and democratizing the spread of information, increasing prosperity, and connecting peoples and economies in previously unfathomable ways.
—TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
Georgia, the iconic peach state, lost some 90 percent of last year’s crop—a Georgia summer without peaches, an unfathomable thing.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
Some blame the government, some seem resigned to this unfathomable fate.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
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unfathomable
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un·fath·om·able
ˌən-ˈfat͟h-ə-mə-bəl 
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