Example sentences for: unthinkable

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

  • Of course, the biggest problem with books of this sort is that the most they can expect to accomplish is to help people refine their use of the language: those whom we think of as needing the greatest amount of help are usually unaware of the fact; for them, looking up a doubtful usage in a book like Hook's (or anyone else's, or even a dictionary) would be unthinkable.

  • In the post-Watergate United States, it is unthinkable that people would shrug off large secret contributions by corporations to the ruling party.

  • 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.

  • Hackworth wrote in Newsweek , "It is simply unthinkable an experienced officer would wear decorations he is not entitled to, awards that others bled for.

  • But now the unthinkable has happened: Americans have regained their faith in politicians.


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