How to Use unthinkable in a Sentence

unthinkable

adjective

• Just as in the bad old days of the Cold War, we are being forced to think the unthinkable.
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022
• Back in the old-timey days, killing off the star of a series was unthinkable.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
• Back in the old-timey days, killing off the star of a series was unthinkable.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024
• A decade ago, a split quiver was unthinkable for all but a few.
  — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• And in the fall of 1972, the Miami Dolphins did the unthinkable.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• The idea of mocking them to their faces would have been unthinkable.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
• The specter of a debt default is no longer unthinkable.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• At the time, the idea that any show would ever be able to match that kind of streak seemed unthinkable.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• Last year, the idea of a rock concert that size would have been unthinkable.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2021
• Not long ago, this kind of praise would have been unthinkable from him.
  — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
• The idea that this inmate would be here in Cannes, a free man, was unthinkable.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
• The notion of not having a train route up the coast, for the most part, has long been unthinkable in San Diego.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
• Just 10 years ago, a line like that would be unthinkable.
  — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2022
• Just a few months ago, this would have been unthinkable.
  — Drew Nelles, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
• In those days, the Final Four was played on back to back days, unthinkable now.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• The idea of not reaching for the heavens while trapped in the hell of my apartment was unthinkable.
  — Ari Marcopoulos; Styling By Miguel Enamorado, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 July 2021
• For his part, Riley has learned to game plan the unthinkable.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2020
• Rhaenyra does the unthinkable in this week’s episode, and she’s not disowned or dead — yet.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2022
• But in the second hour of the trial, the unthinkable happened.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020
• Stanley, 52 at the time, and band reappeared, fired up the music – and then the unthinkable.
  — Holly Gleason, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2021
• That would’ve been unthinkable in the nineteen-fifties.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2022
• In the long-ago, pre-pandemic era of 2019, of course, this would be unthinkable.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Just six or seven years ago the idea would have been unthinkable.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 24 Aug. 2021
• For a band as extreme as ours, that would have been unthinkable.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024
• Most were not wearing face masks, a sight that would have been unthinkable just a month ago.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2020
• Less than a year ago, such a broadcast would have been unthinkable.
  — Salar Abdoh, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2023
• For all of its pleasures and joys — and there are many — the world is a place of unthinkable suffering.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 10 Apr. 2020
• That would always be unthinkable, but even more so this time of year.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
• But there was a time when hijacking four commercial aircraft and flying them into American landmarks was unthinkable too.
  — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
• That immediately set in the previously unthinkable question of whether the Cavs could afford to keep him given their second-apron situation.
  — John Hollinger, New York Times, 17 June 2025