How to Use unlikeliness in a Sentence

unlikeliness

noun

• Iron Man shouldn’t work, but its very unlikeliness is part of its charm.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 26 Oct. 2017
• But our best defense here is the sheer unlikeliness that an asteroid of that size will hit us in the first place.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 26 July 2019
• The problem isn’t the unlikeliness that Harry would even know his way around a toolbox.
  — Jocelyn Noveck, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2017
• While in Hong Kong, the unlikeliness of the setting has enabled them to fly largely under poachers’ radar.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 29 Apr. 2023
• Even ignoring that a few could be traded, and the unlikeliness that any group of six ballplayers perform as expected across three years, that's a lot of time and roster spots to improve.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 22 June 2018
• For about five years, Ed Sheeran has been a pop star of the first order, and yet most of the conversation around him focuses on the unlikeliness of his ascent and the awkwardness of his fit in that stratosphere.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2017
• There’s more to the collaboration than just the unlikeliness of it, however.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2019
• The stellar writing and performances more than make up for the unlikeliness, though, in a series that is just good, intelligent, long-term company.
  — Lauren Hill, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• Ultimately, the unlikeliness of the Dawson, its subtle and grand strangeness, comes from wandering around and letting Dawson happen to you.
  — Caro Clark, GQ, 25 Aug. 2017
• Such a price list is rare, with interest in protection on American debt usually low given the unlikeliness of default.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• Candes compares the unlikeliness of the result to being given just the first three digits of a 10-digit bank account number, and correctly guessing the remaining seven digits.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2013
• The unlikeliness of a relationship working with such geographic challenges seemed like nothing compared to the odds of finding each other in San Francisco and falling in love again.
  — Katie MacBride, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2018
• On Weibo, a Twitter-like social media service, many people questioned the silence from the provincial authorities in particular, pointing out the unlikeliness that only those people who left the country were found to be carrying the virus.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 20 Jan. 2020
• At the end, everyone — including Billy Ray Cyrus, whose appearance on the original remix vaulted the song to pop novelty infamy — convened together, dancing and partying and generally indulging in the utterly absurd unlikeliness of it all.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
• Every season of this show, especially the third and (potentially) final season, premiering this week, has been thematically structured around the unsustainability of its own premise, the sheer madcap unlikeliness of its conceit.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
• LA Times food editor Daniel Hernandez noted the unlikeliness of an authentic taco featuring refried beans (especially ones that were unrecognizable as such).
  — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Nov. 2022
• Additionally, Blunt pointed out the unlikeliness that any Republican senator would vote for raising the corporation tax just four years after passing legislation that lowered it.
  — Davone Morales and Jack Arnholz, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024