Example Sentences

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Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Others might not have fathomed that flash flooding could also transform roadways into raging, impassable streams.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2021

One day this week, Jansen saw a scene he could not have fathomed four years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2018

He imagined that his partner could not have fathomed what the parade had become and how the world had changed.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2016

Had she had all her wits, Desdemona could not possibly have fathomed what I was saying.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides