How to Use fathomless in a Sentence

fathomless

adjective
  • The water’s silver surface seems serene and fathomless, but the wind is starting to pick up.
    Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Railroad tracks shadowed the road for a time then veered away into fathomless distances.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
  • What to do when your life’s oldest, most familiar anchor is sent chain-snapped to the bottom of the fathomless sea?
    Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • Her dark eyes had a fathomless quality, with flickering light in the irises.
    David Rabe, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In the days since the attacks, many have searched for historical parallels to try to make sense of the fathomless violence.
    Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The problem with trying to say anything about the region's beckoning sunlight, fathomless desert, and All.
    Candice Rainey, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Paulson conveys a fathomless darkness while appearing to do almost nothing.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2020
  • But over the years, the song has revealed itself to contain fathomless depths that have only been audible in later interpretations.
    New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • Whereas our affection for dogs is overly sentimental, resulting in a fathomless ocean of slobbery drool.
    Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Heirs first to genocide and then to decades of a shadowy half-life, these speakers let slip not just sorrow and confusion but a fathomless loneliness—the solitude of a private and communal shipwreck.
    Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The fathomless mysteries of other people, the capacity of their quiet behaviors to obsess and derange.
    The Editors, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Even with its unnecessary detours, Singing reaches this wild reverie in the end—a voice reclaimed to report, softly, from the fathomless depths of the human experience.
    Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 29 Apr. 2026
  • But to study the deep future is to recognize that flora and fauna, human fauna included, may be bit players in the fathomless intergalactic drama of chemicals.
    Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Having grown up among the unimaginably wealthy, Farrah is stunned to learn the difference between her parents’ relatively new money and the fathomless cushion of white generational wealth.
    Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • His fathomless lack of interest in America’s path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.
    George F. Will, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
  • In the brooding opening section, Muti and the CSO peered into the depths therein — miserable, dank, unnervingly fathomless.
    Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • In my experience, the real intoxication of the internet in the 1980s lay in the contrast between the luminescent yellow-green symbols and the fathomless yonder.
    1843, 19 June 2020
  • What begins as a manic vengeance adventure veers sharply into an intense, philosophical, and at times meandering exploration of generational trauma, the Asian immigrant experience, and the fathomless mystery of our inner selves.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Half-brothers Wirt and Greg certainly have their disagreements during their journey through the Unknown, but what bonds them in the end, like Lucy carrying her tired little brother Linus home to bed in Great Pumpkin, is fathomless love.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But his Cold War spy stories remain relevant and readable today, thanks to a combination of genuine literary talent and a fathomless cynicism about political and military maneuvering (including that of Le Carré's own country).
    Jeff Dunn and Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2021
  • This snowballing controversy over seemingly simple pieces of paper launched endless online arguments, dominated the news cycle, and gradually began to serve as a microcosm of the fathomless ideological rift among Americans, many of whom view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a zero sum game.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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