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

Columbus royalest Sea-king of all: A depth of Silence, deeper than the Sea; a Silence unsoundable; known to God only.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

Columbus royalest Sea-king of all: a depth of Silence, deeper than the Sea; a silence unsoundable; known to God only.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

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)