Examples of unaccountably in a Sentence

She was looking unaccountably upset. Unaccountably, the problem was ignored.

Recent Examples on the Web This points to one of the similarities between COVID-19 and the proliferation of guns: In the face of both threats, some Americans are unaccountably averse to health measures that would provide them a measure of protection. — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, "Here's what guns, COVID have in common," 20 Dec. 2020 At a talent show in Hibbing High’s unaccountably ornate auditorium, the principal yanked the curtain shut on the Golden Chords and their cover of a Little Richard tune. — David Remnick, The New Yorker, "Little Richard, the Great Innovator of Rock and Roll," 9 May 2020 Last month Swiss authorities auctioned off $27m-worth of sports cars seized from Teodorin Nguema Obiang, the unaccountably wealthy son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny oil-rich dictatorship. — The Economist, "How to hide a billion dollars," 10 Oct. 2019 But then the husband, an unaccountably stubble-faced corporate attorney, shows up one day at his firm, and his boss is popping bottles to toast his kid’s acceptance to Princeton. — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, "A Lifetime Movie Nails the College-Admissions Scandal," 10 Oct. 2019 This guy can’t decide whether to be interesting or not—like someone who is mostly late but every once in a while, unaccountably, on time. — Leslie Jamison, Harper's magazine, "Baggage Claims," 19 Aug. 2019 Billy Rancher was many things: charming, funny, at times unaccountably distant. — oregonlive.com, "Billy Rancher and the Unreal Gods, ‘kings of downtown Portland,’ streaked toward 1980s rock stardom -- until tragedy struck," 8 Aug. 2019 Screening-room attendees who scoffed at Ma’s illogic (her house unaccountably filled with spooky African masks) had already fallen for the absurdities of Us and Get Out. — Armond White, National Review, "Ma’s Black-Mammy Stereotypes Capture the Illiberal Spirit," 7 June 2019 That tube eventually comes in three sizes: large, extra-large and extra-extra-large; the first run, in small, medium and large, unaccountably saw some astronauts fitted with the wrong size. — Oliver Morton, WIRED, "The Beauty and Madness of Sending a Man to the Moon," 4 June 2019

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