How to Use thinkable in a Sentence

thinkable

adjective

• They divorced during a time when that was barely thinkable.
• And that would not have been thinkable 10 years ago.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• This was even less thinkable than giving birth to it.
  — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• That’s starting to seem thinkable for the first time in a long time.
  — Sunset Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• With each new first, others become thinkable.
  — Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
• That has made the once unthinkable suddenly all too thinkable.
  — Erin Grace, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• This has been the worst season of college football — in every way thinkable — of my lifetime.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• The unthinkable has now become very thinkable indeed.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
• One player drove the green on a 384-yard hole—and this was long before drives anywhere near that long were thinkable.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 15 July 2021
• And what was once thought unthinkable is now unfortunately thinkable.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 23 June 2019
• That would have been unthinkable in early 2022, but war tends to make the unthinkable, thinkable.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2022
• By making nuclear weapons smaller and the targeting more precise, their use becomes more thinkable.
  — Nina Tannenwald, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2022
• So a couple of advances have happened in recent years that have made this even imaginable, thinkable, to do without animals.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2023
• Europe’s religious wars needed to pause long enough for political progress to become thinkable.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
• That’s a big but thinkable number, considering Soundcloud receives tens of millions of uploads a year.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2020
• In other words, changing a few numbers in Alcubierre’s calculations makes warp at least thinkable in terms of doable technology.
  — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2014
• They are designed by the Russians to blur the distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons, which strategists fear makes their use more thinkable.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2022
• Hundreds were left dead, villages burned beyond recognition and coexistence among many Rakhines and Rohingyas no longer thinkable.
  — Mary Callahan, Time, 19 May 2015
• Though history is recursive, there are moments when the previously unthinkable becomes thinkable.
  — Shannon Pufahl, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2020
• The Girl From Plainville not only humanizes the characters at its center but brings you into the headspace that made such unthinkable actions feel thinkable.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
• For some liberals, who are now facing an indefinite future in the constitutional wilderness, court-packing seems not only thinkable, but urgent.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2020
• And with each fresh outrage, the American system’s ultimate political sanction becomes more thinkable.
  — Jacob Weisberg, Slate Magazine, 19 May 2017
• God’s gifts are all that God bestows upon creation and to all people, regardless of any thinkable hierarchies of deservingness and faithfulness.
  — Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
• But clues to a possible path to progress have emerged from the theoretical study of alternate spacetime geometries, thinkable in principle but with unusual properties.
  — Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2019
• Clearly, none of this, with its billions of constantly shifting data points, would be remotely thinkable without artificial intelligence.
  — Anne Fisher, Fortune, 22 June 2019
• Both Judaism and Christianity overlap significantly with their Bibles, and are not thinkable without them.
  — John Barton, Time, 14 June 2019
• The notion of ending the occupation and allowing a Palestinian state—at the time a taboo prospect in Israeli politics—suddenly became thinkable.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Still, improved alternative energy sources and construction techniques are making off-grid living more thinkable for more people, including those who don’t want to haul buckets of water from a well or live by candlelight.
  — Katherine Roth, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2022
• Still, improved alternative energy sources and construction techniques are making off-grid living more thinkable for more people, including those who don't want to haul buckets of water from a well or live by candlelight.
  — Katherine Roth, USA TODAY, 12 June 2022
• The only thing that might have stopped us from accepting this kind of corruption as thinkable would be if such acceptance upended our overall understanding of how constitutional democracy functions.
  — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2025