How to Use inexplicable in a Sentence

inexplicable

adjective
  • He had a series of seemingly inexplicable accidents.
  • Here’s to more of the inexplicable lying ahead, for her and us both.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The more inexplicable loss was by 13 points to UC Irvine.
    Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The lines of faith were blurred with football, and the course of the latter followed the inexplicable character of the former.
    Khaled A. Beydoun, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Somehow, each of those three has been more inexplicable than the last.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
  • And this move by Hamas appears to me to be inexplicable.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Jazz make some inexplicable mistakes, can’t get enough stops late, as the Mavs go berserk from the 3-point line to tie the series at one game apiece.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The film explores the inexplicable love between a man and a woman with no memory of the past.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Making tough wardrobe calls, the rat’s nest of chargers, the inexplicable urge to bring 12 pairs of socks for a three-day trip — the choices never end.
    David Moses, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The stunning, inexplicable start led to plenty of questions, most of all from Shiffrin.
    Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The inexplicable gaffe made Travolta the subject of much mockery and ridicule in the media.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Courtney is a huge (and inexplicable) Ross Dress for Less fan.
    Jim Hecht, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Here was a creature that would choose its own inexplicable way.
    Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Then came the inexplicable signing of Kris Bryant for seven years and $182 million.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2022
  • There was a series of stories that had to keep correcting the record for, for something that was inexplicable.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Even for a country that has seemed to be losing its mind in recent years, this seems like inexplicable madness.
    Sara Stewart, CNN, 21 July 2022
  • The inexplicable allure of Stanley cups has led people to go to extreme lengths to collect them.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • One family, torn apart by this disaster, has to unlock the secrets of the inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Elsewhere, cosmic rays were detected from a part of the sky termed Cygnus X-1, in a pattern that seemed inexplicable.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Ward said this was inexplicable: Tested in school, he was found to have an IQ of 92, an average level.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • So Taggart arrived in Lily Dale the summer of 2001 with an open mind, the medium's inexplicable knowledge filed away with a question mark.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The mania for highways seemed inexplicable except as some kind of graft.
    Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • This is far from the first time Affleck has shown his inexplicable adoration for and commitment to Dunkin’.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Aug. 2023
  • When a great singer sings, rips a hole in the atmosphere, something inexplicable happens.
    Bart Bull, SPIN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Angela is inexplicable, which is not the same as complex.
    Kate Knibbs, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Dan’s escapades for reasons that are strange and inexplicable here yet somehow still vastly better than in the book.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022
  • Well, part of that is, to me, a completely inexplicable series of strategic decisions by the Democrats.
    New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Ryan joins a team that has reached the playoffs two of the past four years and just missed making it last season because of an inexplicable season-ending loss at Jacksonville.
    Michael Marot, ajc, 1 May 2022
  • And yet, there was still an inexplicable lack of urgency.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Rowley and Rose believe the fungus is probably playing a role in the inexplicable die-off.
    Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 22 July 2022

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