Example sentences for: unthinkable

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

  • There were previously unthinkable triumphs: protests at Birmingham and Selma, Ala., that helped topple Jim Crow; a quarter-million Americans gathering in Washington to demand racial equality; black activists and Northern white volunteers registering hordes of black voters; a civil-rights act outlawing racial discrimination, passed despite a three-month Senate filibuster.

  • In reply to a question about Hillary, he said that she is "such an inexhaustible source of inner strength that it was unthinkable to imagine that she could abandon him just at this most crucial moment."

  • Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa will also be able to negotiate with Beijing for a degree of administrative leeway unthinkable for his counterparts on the mainland.

  • In 1998, Beijing took the unthinkable step of actually banning bikes from one street, Xisidonglu, where bicycle flow had reached more than 100 per minute.

  • Having sat the girl down in her den; having posed with a social worker's concern questions still unthinkable in their prurience--"Did you ever try to have intercourse?"


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