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Examples of inconceivable in a Sentence
The fire caused an inconceivable amount of damage.
After coming this far, to quit now would be inconceivable.
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Over the past century, international Communism was responsible for almost inconceivable atrocities, including the murder of hundreds of millions of people and the immiseration of more.
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Scripted by Zoe King (whose late father, Zalman King, was an expert at this sort of B-movie erotic thriller), Inconceivable lurches from one laughably predictable, awkward moment to the next.
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A Rockets Big 4 is more or less inconceivable given their existing commitments to non-stars like Ryan Anderson and Eric Gordon.
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Just two seasons ago, an 18-pass sequence with a flashy backheel finish would have been inconceivable, like asking 14th century archers to consider the Human Genome Project.
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Such a move would have been inconceivable until recent years, no matter how close Meyer is to Jordan.
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Prieto batteries can be very thin — or thick — and cut to fit a variety of inconceivable shapes, from a delicate wedding ring to the frame of a car.
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When Barra joined GM in 1985, a female chair and CEO of GM was almost inconceivable.
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Nixon was just so shrewd, so strategic: it’s simply inconceivable he would get caught with his pants down implicating himself on the record, like Trump now does almost daily.
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INCONCEIVABLE Defined for English Language Learners
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: impossible to imagine or believe : not conceivable
INCONCEIVABLE Defined for Kids
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: impossible to imagine or believe The fire caused inconceivable damage.
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