How to Use unanswerable in a Sentence

unanswerable

adjective

• This is one of the unanswerable questions of the piece.
  — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 22 Nov. 2022
• Those are just some of the many unanswerable questions that put the Tigers at crossroads.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2020
• The students asked a lot of questions, some of them unanswerable.
  — Sun Sentinel Staff Reports, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• The unanswerable question is: How much is each life worth?
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2021
• Mark and Kym faced unanswerable questions and grief head-on.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 11 Oct. 2022
• Once again, Maclean knew the question was unanswerable.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• Now, like everything else in the world, the protests face the unanswerable question of what happens next.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• What Zhang could, would, or might do in the future is a rabbit hole of what-ifs and unanswerable questions.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
• To some degree, of course, those questions are unanswerable, and even beside the point.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
• That’s the real question and also the most unanswerable.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
• That leaves one question, unanswerable for the time being.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2020
• What Constable would have made of a New York City space is in a sense an unanswerable question.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• This Is Why asks a lot of questions, often unanswerable ones.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
• In theory, the question of what to wear to work shouldn’t pose an unanswerable dilemma.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2020
• In the meantime, we are left to ponder a suite of largely unanswerable questions.
  — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
• And, just as haunting, just as unanswerable, why did her career stall?
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• That will depend on the simple but unanswerable question of when people will be ready to fly again.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Oct. 2020
• That the question is unanswerable has never stopped the heartsick from picking it over.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• What these burials may have looked like — were there songs? — is an unanswerable question.
  — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 22 Apr. 2020
• These questions are unanswerable in a world built on logic.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Without those kinds of talks your brain is left to circle its own drain with unanswerable questions.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Feb. 2023
• Where will that leave us – with more unanswered or unanswerable questions.
  — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• Throwing up your hands and concluding that the question of the meaning of life is simply unanswerable—by you, at least—is the easy response.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2021
• For days, the memorial has served as a refuge for those without answers to so many unanswerable questions.
  — Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2021
• This is my attempt to answer the unanswerable questions.
  — oregonlive.com, 6 June 2019
• Huddling in a closet with their two little boys, the couple survived the storm and now face unanswerable questions.
  — Austyn Gaffney, Antonio Olivo and Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2021
• Chantal Delsol's Icarus Fallen asks us to confront the unanswerable in our search for meaning and virtue.
  — Sahil Handa, National Review, 4 June 2019
• Modernity did not, Wang argues, present them with an unanswerable challenge, setting up a clash between the old and the new.
  — Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• The question is not unanswerable; the answer is just difficult to accept.
  — Maureen Condic, National Review, 8 Jan. 2023
• The book leaves open the question, unanswerable at this point, of what kind of punishment Francis might face — for the original scheme and for absconding.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024