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.

  • We who are in control of the media and therefore aware of the context in which unclear English is used, know what's going on (and therefore the meanings of the utterances used to describe it), while the vulgar (to use Berkeley's delightful expression for those with a shaky grasp of vocabulary and syntax who are therefore ill equipped to understand some particular bit of newspeak) are led to believe, when they fail to fathom what's going on, that the failure in comprehension is entirely their fault.

  • 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.

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

  • His appeal to different constituencies isn't hard to fathom.


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