How to Use unexplainable in a Sentence
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Good luck to him when called on to explain the unexplainable.
—Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
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That's when Spicer came out to try and explain the unexplainable.
—Gloria Borger, CNN, 11 May 2017
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There are no tantrums, no traffic jams, no unexplainable screams from the backseat.
—Jill Terreri Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
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Take it from someone who dealt with unexplainable burning for years.
—Cheyenne Buckingham, SELF, 13 May 2025
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The horrors of it all are unexplainable.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
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In fact, like most of Carr’s books, the film does gesture toward the unexplainable.
—Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
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The ability to move objects in cool and unexplainable ways, to break arms and ankles.
—Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 5 Mar. 2024
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Then there’s 6 percent left that is unexplainable, that is probably the true, true bias.
—Eric Johnson, Recode, 15 Aug. 2018
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The special teams matchup goes to Seattle unless there is some unexplainable muffed punt.
—Mike Sando, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
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There has always been something unexplainable about the 33-year-old’s game.
—Jacob Whitehead, The Athletic, 4 July 2024
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The nature of the evil that brought darkness and death into that Catholic church this week is unexplainable.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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The world is full of wonderful – but sometimes unexplainable – things.
—Leada Gore | [email protected], al.com, 13 June 2019
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Image The unexplainable record, the over-the-top pregame theatrics, even the hot climate.
—Gerald Narciso, New York Times, 2 June 2018
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For Sturdevant, the ebbs and flows are unexplainable.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
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Our lives are intersected with kismet and unexplainable events that can only be described as being set up just for us.
—Katie Robinson, StyleCaster, 13 Sep. 2024
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A couple goes on a drive through the New Hampshire forest, bathed in an unexplainable light.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
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But there’s something unexplainable as to why their bats make elevator music in front of their loud, faithful fans.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
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There are countless videos and stories about unexplainable sightings, but very few concrete answers.
—David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
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None of that happened and Liddle was left to explain the unexplainable mistake by two young players.
—Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2019
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That only creates the next set of unexplainable pay decisions.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 20 May 2026
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Brammer’s gift is his uncanny ability to put into words a feeling or an idea that feels unexplainable.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
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The most concerning signs of bullying are unexplainable injuries, self-harm or talk of suicide.
—Dr. Mahvash Madni, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
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Nick Risner, for reasons even unexplainable to him at the time, got off work 15 minutes early, which was a rare thing.
—J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 4 Oct. 2021
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The internet, predictably, is full of attempts to explain the unexplainable.
—Naomi Fry, The Cut, 3 Aug. 2017
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Even the area’s nonhuman residents—from pets to local wildlife—have shown unexplainable symptoms.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 July 2024
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That would be a whopping, and unexplainable 153% difference between the two cities.
—al, 14 Feb. 2023
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As the exhausted team works against a tight deadline to secure their bonuses, each member begins to encounter the unexplainable.
—Scott Phillips, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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People often search for answers after tragedy, looking for something that might explain the unexplainable.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
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Madison Bumgarner has an unexplainable split regarding the Dodgers, just the luck of the draw.
—Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 9 June 2019
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All seems well until Caitlyn starts to slowly lose her mind as strange, unexplainable things start to happen within her family.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2025
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