How to Use inexplicable in a Sentence

inexplicable

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• He had a series of seemingly inexplicable accidents.
• Now, thousands of the castle’s bees are feared dead, following an inexplicable attack by two intruders.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• But there are three losses in SMU’s schedule that are somewhat inexplicable.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
• The Hollywood power couple spent their wedding night in Oatman, which is as inexplicable as the presence of their ghosts.
  — Roger Naylor and Scott Craven, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
• Then there were inexplicable losses to Cal, Stanford and Colorado.
  — oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2019
• So, there’s hope yet for the Wildcats, even if their efforts from deep thus far resemble a disorganized construction site: lots of inexplicable bricks.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2019
• Now, through O’Brien’s inexplicable decision-making, that is gone.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 17 Mar. 2020
• Or, as many fans and people around the track suspected in recent years as horse after horse in his barn had shown almost inexplicable improvement, were performance-enhancing drugs involved?
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2020
• Here’s to more of the inexplicable lying ahead, for her and us both.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2022
• The more inexplicable loss was by 13 points to UC Irvine.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
• Of all the things that go wrong here -- and there are plenty of them -- the most inexplicable is how generic the whole thing feels.
  — Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021
• The lines of faith were blurred with football, and the course of the latter followed the inexplicable character of the former.
  — Khaled A. Beydoun, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
• Somehow, each of those three has been more inexplicable than the last.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
• And this move by Hamas appears to me to be inexplicable.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2023
• The inexplicable error cost him 20 seconds and put him out of the running in a flash.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2020
• Jazz make some inexplicable mistakes, can’t get enough stops late, as the Mavs go berserk from the 3-point line to tie the series at one game apiece.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
• After draining one of the two, the Tigers' two-point lead left just enough room for the Trojans (13-1) to creep in and pull off the inexplicable comeback.
  — Joel Lorenzi, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Jan. 2022
• The film explores the inexplicable love between a man and a woman with no memory of the past.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Feb. 2023
• Making tough wardrobe calls, the rat’s nest of chargers, the inexplicable urge to bring 12 pairs of socks for a three-day trip — the choices never end.
  — David Moses, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2023
• Some who did attributed it to the play of light and shadow across the white canvas, not to inexplicable forces.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
• Lance Bass is just one of the inexplicable things about Jax and Brittany’s wedding.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024
• The stunning, inexplicable start led to plenty of questions, most of all from Shiffrin.
  — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• The inexplicable gaffe made Travolta the subject of much mockery and ridicule in the media.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2022
• Courtney is a huge (and inexplicable) Ross Dress for Less fan.
  — Jim Hecht, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• After a short hiatus in the form of an inexplicable sing along episode, The Masked Singer is back with brand new performances.
  — Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 24 Apr. 2020
• The result of the 2016 election was for Democrats inexplicable.
  — Jeff Scrima, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2020
• What inexplicable twists of fate led her to this point, to skinning helpless puppies to make some fur coats?
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• And this, too, was a play that memorably made room for the numinous, the inexplicable.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
• For some inexplicable reason, the driver just failed to notice the stop sign.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Comments Horror thrives in abstract spaces — the unknown, the unreal, the inexplicable, the irrational.
  — Declan Gallagher and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024