Example Sentences

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Ohtani achieved MLB’s first ever 50-50 season, founding a once fathomable club that now has a membership of one.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

"This is like the absolute, absolute upper bound of what could possibly ever be fathomable," Veldman said.

From Reuters • Nov. 13, 2023

Like, say, making portals to different existences materialize from nothing or cranking out identical slices of key lime pie for no fathomable reason.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2023

“Maybe galaxy formation started already at a redshift of 20,” van Dokkum says, referring to a time a mere 180 million years after the big bang, an epoch scarcely fathomable prior to JWST.

From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2023

We gave up the steeplechase and she had the doglegs taken out, her fur removed, her eyes unsilvered to a hazel that was pretty and as fathomable as the silver had been inscrutable.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Doctorow, Cory