How to Use hypothetical in a Sentence

hypothetical

adjective

• She described a hypothetical case to clarify her point.
• The judge based the amount of the award on a hypothetical license fee that the party might have paid to use the song.
  — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2017
• Of course, the hypothetical does not come out of nowhere.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Aug. 2017
• Then come the hypothetical roofs, the might-have-been roofs, the roofs that are no more.
  — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
• But this grand alignment of the aggrieved has been moving from the realm of the hypothetical...
  — Graham T. Allison and, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2019
• But in that hypothetical world, the math wasn’t adding up.
  — Joanne Solomon, Longreads, 1 July 2017
• The romance is all still hypothetical; the sheer joy is not.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• To be sure, this is all hypothetical for the time being.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• At some hypothetical point, the drama around the show will be drowned out by the show itself.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2017
• Of course, the string of reasons behind the mass deaths is all still hypothetical.
  — Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2020
• Like the hypothetical beer case, this case against Walmart mocks the rule of law.
  — Michael I. Krauss, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
• Maybe that’s not the best hypothetical question to pose.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
• So the value of the options is more hypothetical than real at this point.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 July 2020
• Check out all of the hypothetical scenarios in the lyrics below.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2019
• That is, and will be, one of the great hypothetical questions of this election cycle.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• It’s time to stress this answer is based on your hypothetical.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
• Or maybe this hypothetical never unfolds because one or both of these teams slips up in the next two weeks.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2019
• His hypothetical bike shop should be taxed at a lower rate.
  — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 3 Nov. 2017
• The worry, though hypothetical, is one that should not be dismissed out of hand.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
• That’s the big hypothetical, though: whether this was a move the Indians had to make.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 31 July 2019
• The risk is hypothetical, and Merck says it has not been borne out in its studies.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2021
• The mine's backers say a hypothetical bigger mine would have to win its own permit.
  — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2019
• The big question: Where to put these hypothetical new schools?
  — Juliette Mavroleon, miamiherald, 17 June 2018
• What struck me was how crudely a hypothetical patient had been reduced to his race.
  — Jennifer W. Tsai, STAT, 11 July 2018
• The rest of the team is littered with talent, some realized and some hypothetical.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 29 June 2019
• This is love as a waking dream, love in verdant comfort, love in the hypothetical.
  — Bhanu Kapil Anne Boyer, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• But to others, the hypothetical encounter sets off alarm bells.
  — Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2018
• Those prone to the illusion chose more hypothetical rules.
  — Caitlin Harrington, WIRED, 7 July 2023
• Unlike the use of blankets to protect ice, these ideas are still hypothetical.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2018
• Think that last paragraph sounds like a crazy hypothetical?
  — Eric Single, SI.com, 24 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 25 Apr 2024