How to Use unimaginable in a Sentence
unimaginable
adjective- This technology would have been unimaginable five years ago.
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As the sun came up on the city, the scale of the damage was almost unimaginable.
— Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023 -
That was a joke, an unimaginable event, when the show aired 17 years ago.
— Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2023 -
At the 2024 Paris Games, the surf venue will be held at a world-class break that's sure to bring unimaginable waves to the scene.
— Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024 -
The distances Tiger was hitting the ball were, at the time, unimaginable.
— John Guaspari, National Review, 26 Sep. 2021 -
Three years ago, all of this would have been unimaginable.
— Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024 -
What Pelosi has done and what Schumer has done is unimaginable.
— Fox News Staff, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2022 -
And it’s inspired a sense of joy in her own life that once was unimaginable.
— Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2023 -
For my wife and me, to endure that would have been unimaginable.
— Josh Replogle, CNN, 5 Dec. 2021 -
Such protests would have been unimaginable just a few months ago.
— New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022 -
The app is an overnight success—largely thanks to the unimaginable weight the app’s owner, Meta, has to throw around.
— Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 7 July 2023 -
Just five years ago, the need for such action would have been unimaginable.
— Anthony W. Marx, Dennis M. Walcott, TIME, 19 Oct. 2024 -
In a life of nearly unimaginable turns, Joe Biden made yet one more.
— Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 -
For a teenage Feid, even playing the theaters of his fall tour would have been unimaginable.
— Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 9 Mar. 2023 -
Also, the psychic toll on the mouse has been unimaginable.
— Ellie Black, The New Yorker, 20 May 2022 -
Star Wars and Avatar and The Matrix would be unimaginable without it.
— EW.com, 8 Oct. 2021 -
The death toll and damage from the fires in Hawaii were unimaginable, officials said.
— Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023 -
The sudden sounds of heavy artillery, airstrikes, and shelling were unimaginable.
— TIME, 15 Apr. 2024 -
This free fall in the legal department at the FDA is unimaginable.
— Jen Christensen, CNN, 14 July 2022 -
Some people take these lessons to lengths that might seem unimaginable.
— Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2022 -
That unimaginable thing, when nurse and mother-of-three Becky Bliefnick was found murdered in her home.
— Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023 -
Like 50 percent of the people just hate him on a level that is unimaginable.
— Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024 -
The idea that McCurdy could take pleasure in the presence of food was unimaginable a few years ago.
— Ashley Spencer, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022 -
If the Fjerdans weaponize this drug, the consequences would be unimaginable.
— Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2023 -
The fact that the school is defending that kind of behavior is unimaginable.
— Jeffrey Collins, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023 -
In the process, Pony Ma gained unimaginable wealth and influence beyond his wildest dreams.
— Wired, 20 July 2022 -
It’s the other stuff, the vile things, the derogatory things, calling you the most unimaginable things, that your white teammates don’t have to go through.
— Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022 -
Sticking to the basics can lead to success on an unimaginable scale.
— Jodie Cook, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 -
Chad gave us so much that his absence is unimaginable, and therein lies the blessing.
— Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2021 -
Burton’s family has launched a GoFundMe to support his wife and daughters in the wake of this unimaginable loss.
— Melissa Noel, Essence, 21 Oct. 2024
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