How to Use the unthinkable in a Sentence

the unthinkable

noun

• No more Roald Dahl meant the unthinkable: no more books by Roald Dahl.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 20 Feb. 2023
• So Speaks did the unthinkable in an age of casual hangouts and hookups.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Nicole Avant and her family have lived through the unthinkable.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 1 May 2023
• The creators of this HBO series had a huge task before them: make the unthinkable real.
  — Valerie Wu, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
• In the season 4 finale, Joe does the unthinkable and kills Kate's father, Tom Lockwood.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 12 Mar. 2023
• Even so, three-body theorists see a number of ways that the unthinkable might be avoided.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• But then the unthinkable happens, and Gus Kitko is chosen to join a small group of robots who actually want to save the world.
  — USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• Trump has had that effect, over and over again, turning the unthinkable into the ordinary.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
• When the unthinkable happens, there’s beauty, not shame, in growing up, wising up and finding new ways to think.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• The Pioneers talked about how that 1998 Harvard team pulled off the unthinkable beating Stanford on its home floor.
  — Janie McCauley, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• A little nudge over dinner one evening from someone who had worked at the royal household was enough to get the famed author plotting: Could the unthinkable be done?
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life--until the unthinkable happens.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 9 Aug. 2023
• At a hallowed piece of ground that has become synonymous with the unthinkable horrors of war, the final chapter has not been written.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
• For nearly half a decade, Lê returned to her home country once a year, venturing further and further into what was once the unthinkable.
  — Joshua Glass, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• The reason: If the economy turns south — or the unthinkable happens and the United States does default on its debt — those high-risk debt instruments will come under the most pressure.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 17 May 2023
• Tom is the more easygoing, reasonable-minded spouse, the one who clings in vain to normalcy even after the unthinkable has happened.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• Bre Hutchinson was listening to music and dancing with friends when the unthinkable happened.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 19 Apr. 2023
• The closer the United States gets to the X-date of actually running out of money, the more investors are forced to confront the unthinkable: A disastrous debt default.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
• As fentanyl deaths keep surging, more and more parents are finding their way into a bona fide movement to make political sense of the unthinkable.
  — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
• Fans flock to stores on release day to do the unthinkable: purchase physical copies of her albums that come in multiple collectible versions.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• If the unthinkable became a horrifying reality, if a life-and-death teeter-totter or crushing financial pressure pushed them to the brink, the teen would shoulder the weight of the world.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
• Yet the unthinkable happens at a frequency that terrifies me.
  — Cathleen Calkins, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2024
• Later they are caught experiencing the unthinkable: a dinner with their prison guards.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
• Though Clarke was a seasoned competitor, Hall entered the history books by doing the unthinkable: staying put in the driver’s seat and piloting the entirety of the 24-hour race.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2023
• Lefty & his teams accomplished the unthinkable & catapulted a program, college & small N.C. town to new heights.
  — Kevin Dotson, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024
• Melanie Harper of Greenville was tossing her recyclables in a bin at a local recycling center on Sunday when the unthinkable happened.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2024
• Then the unthinkable happened: There was a Congolese government shutdown, which meant that all adoptions were suspended.
  — Christine Lennon, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
• Drew Angerer—Getty Images The worst inflation in four decades has proved quite the ride for consumers over the past two years, and recently, it’s even helped the unthinkable become increasingly mainstream.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama is a powerful snapshot of when the unthinkable was ordinary.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Like Dupieux, Yannick does the unthinkable, expressing his displeasure.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024