How to Use inconceivable in a Sentence

inconceivable

adjective

• The fire caused an inconceivable amount of damage.
• After coming this far, to quit now would be inconceivable.
• There was a time, Ms. Canik said, when leaving the parish had been inconceivable.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• This loss would have been inconceivable during the first two months of the season.
  — Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2022
• Green can score from inconceivable angles on drives to the rim.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 25 Dec. 2022
• Not long ago, such a move would have been inconceivable.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• And yet there is a line, one that is almost inconceivable, even to the men who accept the risks and the fans who celebrate them for it.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
• That it would be used to edit the genes of patients in less than a decade was simply inconceivable then.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 3 Nov. 2022
• The scale of what lay ahead was hard to fathom, a variety of doom that felt both inconceivable and inevitable.
  — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• That has opened the door to something once thought inconceivable: that Sinn Fein could emerge as the largest party, with the right to appoint the first minister.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 June 2021
• Making the jump to a person was unheard of, but not inconceivable.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• The answer was a nearly inconceivable 275 million, just from the bombs’ blasts.
  — Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2020
• The pause has been an inconceivable loss for many athletes across the world, 5️⃣ while the future of some events will be in the hands of casual participants.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2020
• Compared with the bounty of the past 10 years, that number seems almost inconceivable.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• But if the Spurs wind up pulling off the inconceivable, Friday provided a template.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• Among the list of 1,648 comments was one from Afkari, whose public courage and audacity would have been inconceivable to many in Iran.
  — Don Riddell, CNN, 28 June 2021
• An entire plethora of AR apps is cropping up that have the potential to make homes smarter in ways that were inconceivable just a few years ago.
  — Mark Vena, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• After all, there was a time when a sub-three-second zero-to-60 time was inconceivable.
  — Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
• The upshot of all this is that vast sums of money are now being channeled to fight climate change—sums that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• The idea of directly working with players on the field was inconceivable.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
• Many of the older women seemed to find her presence inconceivable.
  — NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
• These types of crimes were inconceivable just a few years ago, but the alarming number of people being harmed by them today need help.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2022
• Finding an expanse of desert in coastal Maine may seem inconceivable.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2021
• The idea that the government would cancel debt, the idea that the Democrats would, in a sense, be the party of debt cancellation, was pretty inconceivable maybe five years ago.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2023
• And this kind of large-scale collaboration would have been inconceivable 20 years ago, perhaps even in the past decade.
  — Julianna Morano, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021
• The idea of corporate sponsorship or funding to be able to put on events of this scale was pretty much inconceivable.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2023
• That drew a smile Friday from Oats, something that would have been inconceivable Monday.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 20 Jan. 2023
• These new ones were about 30 solar masses each — not inconceivable, but odd.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
• These costs are a strain for most students, and almost inconceivable for the very youngest, who may struggle to remember life without them.
  — Nat Malkus, National Review, 17 Mar. 2021
• But this testing frenzy would have been inconceivable just 10 years ago.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 26 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024