Example sentences for: fathom

How can you use “fathom” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Disagreements on the left are far more ingrained--and more meaningful--than he seems to fathom.

  • Of the other main entries, macedonian cry or macedonian call, macedonian-persian , and macedonian pine , each shows “ usu cap .” As all of these entries are conventionally capitalized in normal English, it is difficult to fathom the rationale for the treatment, and 5 CAPITALIZATION , in the Explanatory Notes, reveals nothing useful.

  • When he attempts to fathom what's happening to him, Jonze and Kaufman deliver a coup de cinema --a vision of hell that isn't, à la Sartre, other people, but oneself ad infinitum.

  • Given all the press attention lavished on the Year 2000 bug, it's hard to fathom that only USAT fronts Wall Street's Y2K test Monday.

  • Feel the texture of a hand offered in greeting and try to fathom the “Jamaican handshake,” a ritual whose rules seem to be more complex than those of the game of cricket.


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