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Example sentences for: unthinkable
How can you use “unthinkable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Since English lacks a calque for au revoir , it would be technically possible to make one, perhaps on the model of Joyce's (or his Stephen Dedalus') “agenbite (of inwit)” for remorse: till the agenseeing . But of course such bitterly pedantic wordplay would be unthinkable on the lips of the plain-spoken priest whose words give the Malle film its title and some of its poignancy.
And the idea of a half-brother or half-sister with brown skin was unthinkable."
For example, your book starts with the story of Arthur's meeting in 1987 with Al Fishlow at Berkeley, in which Fishlow supposedly said, "We know that increasing returns can't exist"--and Arthur went away in despair over the unwillingness of economists to think the unthinkable.
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.
It concluded, "When the alternative is the unthinkable, it is churlish to quibble over dates, venues and terms of reference."
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