How to Use unthinkable in a Sentence

unthinkable

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• A decade ago, a split quiver was unthinkable for all but a few.
  — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• And in the fall of 1972, the Miami Dolphins did the unthinkable.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• The idea of mocking them to their faces would have been unthinkable.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
• The specter of a debt default is no longer unthinkable.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• The notion of not having a train route up the coast, for the most part, has long been unthinkable in San Diego.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
• Rhaenyra does the unthinkable in this week’s episode, and she’s not disowned or dead — yet.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2022
• That would’ve been unthinkable in the nineteen-fifties.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2022
• Less than a year ago, such a broadcast would have been unthinkable.
  — Salar Abdoh, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2023
• For those of us who grew up on network TV, this seems unthinkable.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• Joel has done something unthinkable—and he's done it out of love.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 12 Mar. 2023
• Yet to others, the idea that the swastika could be redeemed is unthinkable.
  — Deepa Bharath, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
• That kind of support would have been unthinkable a few decades ago.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• It's been just over half a year since Vladimir Putin did the unthinkable and invaded Ukraine.
  — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2022
• The deployment of Patriot missiles to Ukraine would have been unthinkable at the start of the war.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2022
• Two decades ago, such a weekend in Auburn was unthinkable.
  — al, 2 Dec. 2022
• Being benched in the fourth game seemed unthinkable when the Hurricanes kicked off the season.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2022
• The notion that an artist as successful as Joel might stay in the dark for so long could be unthinkable.
  — Jenna Wang, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
• In 1999, a Danish physicist named Lene Hau did the unthinkable.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Aug. 2022
• There are so many things TV dramas do now that would have been unthinkable 25 years ago.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2022
• Could three days of training prepare her for the unthinkable?
  — New York Times, 31 July 2022
• Despite this, the flesh havens on Sixth Street soared to unthinkable heights, and Henry’s business boomed.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• In the current climate, the idea of not getting credit for your good deeds is unthinkable.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
• The idea of one woman in a band was radical enough in the extremely male world of ‘70s L.A. rock, but to have two was unthinkable.
  — Jerry Portwood, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2023
• The mere idea of North Carolina playing in it was once unthinkable.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
• Go back a decade and the moment was something beyond unthinkable.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 7 Jan. 2023
• But for the Jewish refugees who walked this Alpine trail into Italy 75 years ago, giving up was unthinkable.
  — Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• People can chase fortunes and change careers in ways that would have been unthinkable in the early 1980s.
  — WIRED, 9 Jan. 2023
• For the single mother whose son is at war, protest, once unthinkable, now seems a last desperate hope to save him.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
• My old racetrack friend Eli Gold is back in the booth in Tuscaloosa after an unthinkable year fighting off cancer and death.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• Getting to a transplant center in Phoenix four hours away was unthinkable.
  — Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024