How to Use fathom in a Sentence

fathom

verb

• What happened over the next two weeks is hard to fathom.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2022
• What never seems to get old are moves that are hard to fathom.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
• It’s hard to fathom how even his base could get fired up by that.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2019
• No one with an ounce of sense could fathom crashing through this roof.
  — Charlie Dent, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
• The ripple effects of a season like that are hard to fathom.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2020
• The goal is to be at the top of the mountain, but not many can fathom what that looks like or even how to get there.
  — Nishith Rastogi, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• It’s hard to fathom Texas Tech will have any votes in the new poll.
  — star-telegram, 21 Oct. 2017
• These next weeks and months will be demanding in ways that are hard to fathom.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2020
• With that in mind, try to fathom what the NBA has in store.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023
• My mind could hardly fathom what those six words meant.
  — Kyra Parrow, Time, 2 Mar. 2018
• That’s a pretty long way to fall—one most of us can’t even fathom.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2023
• It’s hard to fathom how much can change in seven years given how much has changed in the last month.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 12 July 2019
• A year and a half ago, such a scene seemed impossible to fathom.
  — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• The couple couldn’t fathom how their lives changed so quickly.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• It’s hard to fathom where James’ was coming from on this.
  — Al Saracevic, SFChronicle.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• Just as the future of climate disasters is hard to fathom now.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2020
• In some cases, these systems achieve a scale that’s hard to fathom.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2017
• His legacy will be cast in a permanence that’s hard to fathom.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• The human tragedy that would take place in those intervening years is hard to fathom.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 4 May 2017
• The level of wealth maintained by unnamed oil tycoons is more than most of us can even fathom.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 Apr. 2023
• Ewers can make all the throws, some that others at this level might not even fathom.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2021
• So that means that number isn’t even possible to even fathom.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
• It’s hard to fathom a version of this game where Oregon struggles to score.
  — oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2019
• Tell me, please, that there is room for optimism in what from my vantage point is hard to fathom.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2022
• But there was something the Padres manager could not fathom.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 June 2018
• More important is the large-scale disruption of lives, which would be hard to fathom.
  — Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022
• His last baseball season ending this way, it's been hard to fathom.
  — Richard Obert, azcentral, 2 May 2020
• But then, a lot about San Francisco is hard to fathom these days.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2022
• Your generation cannot fathom what those people went through in their lives.
  — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• Mere mortals like us can't fathom how the gods spend their teenage downtime, after all).
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 19 June 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024