How to Use fathom in a Sentence

fathom

verb

• With that in mind, try to fathom what the NBA has in store.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023
• It’s hard to fathom Texas Tech will have any votes in the new poll.
  — star-telegram, 21 Oct. 2017
• What happened over the next two weeks is hard to fathom.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2022
• It’s hard to fathom how even his base could get fired up by that.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2019
• The goal is to be at the top of the mountain, but not many can fathom what that looks like or even how to get there.
  — Nishith Rastogi, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• That’s a pretty long way to fall—one most of us can’t even fathom.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2023
• What never seems to get old are moves that are hard to fathom.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, the Chiefs slipping to 2-3 is hard to fathom.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2021
• It’s hard to fathom where James’ was coming from on this.
  — Al Saracevic, SFChronicle.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• Still, said some gun sellers, the jump from 2019 to last year’s record NICS checks and gun sales was hard to fathom.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 4 Jan. 2021
• To try to fathom it, picture trekking from sea level to the top of the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• No one with an ounce of sense could fathom crashing through this roof.
  — Charlie Dent, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
• The ripple effects of a season like that are hard to fathom.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2020
• As late as 2000, a return to Boston was still hard to fathom.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021
• It’s hard to fathom how much can change in seven years given how much has changed in the last month.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 12 July 2019
• These next weeks and months will be demanding in ways that are hard to fathom.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2020
• In some cases, these systems achieve a scale that’s hard to fathom.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2017
• Much of the show’s conflict revolves around the fact that the aliens can’t fathom that humans bone sometimes.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2021
• A year and a half ago, such a scene seemed impossible to fathom.
  — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• But then, a lot about San Francisco is hard to fathom these days.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2022
• The couple couldn’t fathom how their lives changed so quickly.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• Democrats are still in shock about that, and can’t fathom why so many Latinos are pro-recall.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• That should be music to the ears of Oregon fans who couldn’t fathom why there weren’t more with Herbert.
  — oregonlive, 28 Sep. 2020
• Burrowes, 44, couldn’t fathom there was still a danger, a week after the storm hit.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2022
• My mind could hardly fathom what those six words meant.
  — Kyra Parrow, Time, 2 Mar. 2018
• It’s hard to fathom a version of this game where Oregon struggles to score.
  — oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2019
• The women’s lawyers couldn’t fathom why Griess had neglected to bring charges for more than two years.
  — Julia Shipley, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
• And Fox has never been able to fathom the idea of Olsen hurting her daughters.
  — Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 21 Jan. 2021
• His legacy will be cast in a permanence that’s hard to fathom.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Ewers can make all the throws, some that others at this level might not even fathom.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2024