How to Use unimaginable in a Sentence

unimaginable

adjective
  • This technology would have been unimaginable five years ago.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ender's grandson, Andrew Vero, told the judge the crime was unimaginable.
    Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
  • This is not just unimaginable to people who spend time teetering in a rink.
    Ben Cohen, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022

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