Example Sentences

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My mother disapproved of Hanukah but, in the unsoundable depths of their marriage, a compromise had been reached.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2016

As the troubled, remote, often barely verbal Turner, Leigh’s longtime collaborator Timothy Spall gives a performance of immense richness and unsoundable mystery.

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2014

There shall be a depth of silence in thee deeper than this sea, which is but ten miles deep; a silence unsoundable, known to God only.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)

He doubtless feared that corner of the Rue de la Federation, and remained as it were submerged in the dim unsoundable depths of the ocean of Paris.

From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

It looks as if there were unsoundable depths in some places and shoals in others.

From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White