How to Use unknowable in a Sentence

unknowable

adjective
  • And even then, some things about the past are unknowable.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The fate of the Warriors’ dynasty now hinges on the unknowable.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 10 June 2019
  • Maybe the truth is that this coaching stuff is kind of unknowable.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Their tastes may be the same, but the circumstances are close to unknowable.
    The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Even 25 years ago, many of these things were unknowable.
    Wired, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The hill is above all that, Intractable, unknowable, serene.
    Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The next step is preparing for the knowable and unknowable that lie ahead.
    Jose Luis Castro, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Then, as now, Europe was at war, and the outcome was unknowable.
    Matthew Taylor King, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Maybe this is just Ice Spice being cool and unknowable again.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • That was the unknowable quality Napoleon couldn’t get hold of.
    Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Set in 1975, Still Wakes the Deep puts you in the shoes of a rig worker trying to survive some unknowable horror.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 June 2023
  • The number who have had cases blocked is unknowable but could be vast.
    NBC News, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Since 1945, the answer to that question has been unknowable.
    Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The finished work lingered in Prince’s vast, prodigious, unknowable vaults for the next decade.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2021
  • This was the most absurd play of the game, as three Jazz dudes just let this rebound fall to the floor for reasons unknown and unknowable.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Jan. 2022
  • First, a racist mob stripped an almost unknowable amount of wealth from Black Tulsans overnight.
    Aaron Morrison, Chron, 1 June 2021
  • The ultimate facts of the case are right at our fingertips and unknowable.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 9 Oct. 2019
  • My heart felt stirred and shaken up, as if massaged by some great, unknowable force.
    Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 13 May 2021
  • Trump is leaning down to talk with Pence, and while their exchange is unknowable, there is a slight tension.
    Julius Constantine Motal, NBC news, 15 June 2020
  • From the start there’s something unknowable, handed down through the centuries.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Philippe is remote, unknowable, even to those closest to him.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • As a whole, they are united by a fascination with the unknown, and the unknowable.
    Neelam Bohra and Aj Willingham, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Shows like these — full of wonder for the unknown and unknowable — keep art alive and intriguing.
    Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • As for whether the outcome at Purdue changes had Nolan played sooner, that’s unknowable.
    oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The purpose of the collection was to be admired, the objects examined one by one as hints of the world’s unknowable breadth.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 10 July 2020
  • The weary narrator floats away in a dream, in search of the unknowable, the deep forbidden music somewhere off in the distance.
    Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
  • Some things are unknowable because there isn’t enough of an impetus to study them.
    Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Heineken, for About a Dollar By 2023, the landscape had become unknowable.
    Paul Sonne, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • How will his gift for playing slippery, unknowable figures factor in here?
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 May 2024
  • Recent biopics like Napoleon and Ferrari are loaded with scenes that reconstruct unknowable conversations had behind closed doors, but in those films, such talks drive forward plot and character development.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024

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