Example sentences for: unthinkable

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

  • 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."

  • So here are the signals that will warn me the unthinkable may be happening.

  • Again, the liberal equivalent of this--the New York Times refusing to run criticism of Clinton by Anthony Lewis--is unthinkable.

  • Its main front-page headline said the indictment has split the allies, but this was effectively contradicted in an article by its political editor, Donald Macintyre, claiming that the European allies were holding much closer to the U.S. and British positions than was generally imagined and that German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's much-reported statement that a ground invasion was "unthinkable" had actually meant only that German troops would not participate.

  • It concluded, "When the alternative is the unthinkable, it is churlish to quibble over dates, venues and terms of reference."


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