Example sentences for: fathom

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

  • Unable to fathom Reagan's public accomplishments, Morris focuses on his personal life.

  • You see, my 9-year-old daughter read your "article" and could not fathom how (or why) a supposed intelligent adult could possibly say those things.

  • by Larissa MacFarquhar is so off base that it is difficult to fathom that she really believes what she is saying.

  • 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.

  • The Post said it was "difficult to fathom why the US seems slavishly attached to a policy [toward Iraq], built upon 'containment' and UN inspections, that is doomed to failure," when it should be supporting this "viable democratic alternative to Saddam" as "a strategic and moral imperative."


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