How To Use Explicable In A Sentence

How we had found each other in this throng of 250,000 people was inexplicable. Times, Sunday Times
The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.
Rachel Maddow mocked a Democratic senator on her Thursday show for what she called his "inexplicable" opposition to President Obama's jobs bill. Rachel Maddow Mocks Sen. Bob Casey's Opposition To Obama Jobs Plan (VIDEO)
And that in itself becomes the great terrible mystery of the film - the monstrous enigma that propels the townspeople towards some inexplicable, and therefore, inextricable, oblivion.
Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, released a letter he had written to Mr. MacAskill in which he called the Scots minister's decision "inexplicable as it is detrimental to the cause of justice. Lockerbie Fallout Spreads to London

Expecting cooperation when such can lead to self incrimination on a whim is just as inexplicable. The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons)
Why contribute to collections of essays that try to explain the inexplicable?
It's been suggested that this otherwise inexplicable aspect of chimp life is a little bit like a religious service. Times, Sunday Times
For some inexplicable reason, he's decided to cancel the project.
His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)
Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements, but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief.
The difference between human and animal sensitivity to scents is thus explicable mainly by the different composition of their brain-air.
To subjugate all paths to the proofs of Science is to neglect the irrational and inexplicable mysteries of Creation.
Among the inexplicable fashions and inspired dancing, I stood alone next to a banquette, and in a quiet, shocking moment realized the fogged-up atrium was filled with people I loved. Welcome to My World
I am seething with rage at anyone who dares suggest that, in any way, such acts are even explicable, let alone justifiable.
That all of these levels were explicable within the work itself says volumes about the vitality of conceptualism in the 70s and 80s - it had not yet a reached a nadir of mannerist gestures.
Sumptuous maybe, but these programmes were riddled with stereotypes - setting suns, crowds of smiling children, inexplicable crazed violence - and had little new to say.
Being alone in the office with her boss evoked the scene with the father and the sense of enigmatic, inexplicable menace. Times, Sunday Times
The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.
The delay is partly explicable by the road works.
Â Submerged in subtext, The White Ribbon is a fantastic film that offers no easy answers and a future both inescapable and inexplicable. THE WHITE RIBBON Review – Collider.com
It was quickly realized that a previously known anomaly in the orbital motion of Mercury was explicable with the relativistic theory.
Towards the end of the film, when an altercation with the earnest young locksmith erupts abruptly into violence, he retreats into religious superstition as a means of rationalising a seemingly inexplicable plot development.
Not only were expenses loosely accounted for, but there were a lot of inexplicable receipts.
So please, stop pretending that the motivations for this are inexplicable.
He shrugs aside questions on the deeper reasons for his sudden and inexplicable departure.
For once, however, this apophthegm failed; the next call was altogether as ineffectual as the former; and moreover, attended with a phenomenon which to them was equally strange and inexplicable: this was no other than such a reduction in the size of Mrs. Trunnion as might have been expected after the birth of a full-grown child. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Dark means not evading the sad and inexplicable complexities of life. Times, Sunday Times
His behaviour was inexplicable, angry and aggressive, he had outbursts that were nonsensical. The Sun
The armoured regiments and the Guards remain for some inexplicable reason untouched. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps, your belief is something that is an inexplicable conviction in which you trust.
His behaviour is explicable in the light of his recent illness.
Now, after 30 years, Marianne has an inexplicable yen to see her 81-year-old ex and tracks him down at his summerhouse in the mountains.
Koman Coulibaly: inexplicable call voided U.S. game-winner Memories from South Africa's World Cup
Even some of the cases that are explicable in ideological terms reveal subtle shadings just beneath the surface.
For some inexplicable reason, some rooms of the mansion will suddenly turn very cold.
[Footnote 125: Formerly noticed as a species of velvet; but the words marsine and versine were inexplicable in the days of Hakluyt, and must so remain. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
Passive modes of defence are as many and varied as are the active; one of the strangest and most inexplicable of these is that known as spontaneous amputation, technically termed autotomy. The Human Side of Animals
I was unconversant with the altitudes and energies of sentiment, and was transfixed with inexplicable horror by the symptoms which I now beheld. Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
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I was on the brink of tears for no reason other than the moment's inherent, inexplicable beauty.
The differences in the children's achievements were not wholly explicable in terms of their social backgrounds.
Another staff member felt perplexed and sad about the fact that one of the campers seemed angry with her all the time, for no explicable reason.
Failures in this process, however, are explicable in realist terms as the protection of national sovereignty.
His behaviour was inexplicable, angry and aggressive, he had outbursts that were nonsensical. The Sun
Now the Madhya Pradesh forest minister himself says the big cats were poached and has asked for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe ..... blog. taragana.com "Officials from the wildlife department say there is no 'explicable' reason for the falling number of tigers. WN.com - Articles related to Film documents survival stories of tigers, other animals
The difference between human and animal sensitivity to scents is thus explicable mainly by the different composition of their brain-air.
Seen in this context, the sudden eruption of the Global Justice Movement in 1999, becomes explicable.
This theory makes sense of an otherwise inexplicable phenomenon.
For them, that idea is the undiscovered planet that explains otherwise inexplicable convictions.
Besides this diplomatical dignitary and his wife, we had two American gentlemen of more than average intelligence, who related wonderful things of the 'spiritual manifestations' (so called), incontestable things, inexplicable things. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This is another inexplicable effort by an actor to overplay a slow, strange character and teach everybody lessons.
And on her unkind face an expression of inexplicable satisfaction. Kate Morton Ebook Collection
Wrapped in inexplicable garish neon colors and costumes that suggested a cross between Mad Max: Beyond Thurnderdome and Calamity Jane, this production failed to ignite much fire of laughter. Archive 2006-09-01
The minor downsides are the relative infrequency (every 30 minutes outside peak times) and the inexplicable fact that it stops dead at 8pm every night. Finding Cheap Airport Transfers From Australian Airports | Lifehacker Australia
So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the Bábí Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed. Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab
We can go further and look at synteny, or the conserved order of sequences in the genome, and see that there is an explicable pattern of change, one that is explained by common genetic and evolutionary processes, and does not fit the design hypothesis except in the sense that the design hypothesis is so uselessly vague that you can make any observation fit it. The circus is in town; the creationist calliope is wheezing away again - The Panda's Thumb
Large areas of vitrified sand have been discovered in the Gobi desert and elsewhere, evidence of such intense heat as might not be explicable otherwise.
The older I grow, the stranger and less explicable the world appears to me.
The authors offered neither diagnosis nor cure for their inexplicable and uncharacteristic lack of hospitality.
The candour of this speech, in which his aversion to the Delviles was openly acknowledged, and rationally justified, somewhat quieted the suspicions of Cecilia, which far more anxiously sought to be confuted than confirmed: she began, therefore, to conclude that some accident, inexplicable as unfortunate, had occasioned the partial discovery to Mr Cecilia
The devotee's irrationality springs from a thousand inexplicable demonstrations of God's instancy in trouble. Autobiography of a Yogi
Incomprehensible as he was, one might always be sure of a certain princeliness in his inexplicable methods. The Head of the House of Coombe
This identification was in part explicable by reason of the supporting pillars of social reform: evangelicism, humanitarianism, the idea of progress, and a middle-class awareness of the need for the maintenance of social order. PHILANTHROPY
Social diversity is thus explicable in terms of an underlying structure consisting largely of economic factors.
In the theater of memory, I see that it was a set piece: his concept was to lead our young minds through a chain of events culminating which is to say beginning, since he constructed his lectures as flashbacks in a mysterious, inexplicable event that ignited the creation of the world. Seeking, Searching
It is important, he explains, to find answers to what we currently find inexplicable.
For some inexplicable reason, he's decided to cancel the project.
The errors are patent and they are explicable by what we say is a rather shallow analysis of the admissible value of those utterances in the record of interview.
Among the 20th century authors whose works I find mostly unreadable are two who inspire many people with a devotion and respect which are, to me, quite inexplicable.
The English have given an inexplicable charm to these superstitions, by the manner in which they have associated them with whatever is most homefelt and delightful in nature. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
His absence from the year 's Proms was as inexplicable as it was spiteful. Times, Sunday Times
For some inexplicable reason he gave up a fantastic job.
I couldn't look at her face, flushed with complete bewilderment and even some inexplicable anger.
But again I damn my inexplicable vertically challenged self for not being able to reach it.
This phrase, which had dogged him for three decades, was not readily explicable, which was perhaps why it had proved so tenacious. SACRAMENT
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe ..... blog. taragana.com "Officials from the wildlife department say there is no 'explicable' reason for the falling number of tigers. WN.com - Articles related to Film documents survival stories of tigers, other animals
The low correlation value is therefore explicable and does not detract from the findings.
The delay is partly explicable by the road works.
Even so-called miracles are explicable in terms of natural phenomena.
The best violins, violas and cellos were, for reasons inexplicable, made in Cremona between the middle of the 17th and 18th centuries by Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri and their teacher, Nicolo Amati.
The first part of this dominant Western reading is true enough, for the late unlamented USSR was the converse of paradise, if you were a dissident, that is, someone with an inexplicable desire for freedom of expression.
But the story about the time that I just acted on a moment of meanness – of unbidden, unjustified, inexplicable meanness – that story, I don’t know how spin didactically. Falling Out Of Trees | Her Bad Mother
So even though she may find her own action inexplicable or “surd,” she is in fact acting rationally, although she does not know it. Weakness of Will
It also felt unlikely to run away with you, so that its stiff switch remains inexplicable but seems far less important. Times, Sunday Times
Rather, they constitute an inexplicable wave of energy which the Toltecs called the tonal and the nagual. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
For some inexplicable reason, her cheeks flooded with colour.
ALL that day I lay in the dungeon cudgeling my brains for the reason of this new and inexplicable punishment. Chapter 3
More inexplicable happenings occur within Appleton than any other borough. The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend
It always seemed to me inexplicable that someone like Waterhouse was so popular, yet so unfashionable.
Micromounters are looked upon as some sort of secret society that does furtive things under microscopes for inexplicable reasons.
Something more in the line of the explicable was a phenomenon observed in 1879 and in 1881 by Schiaparelli. Mars
How else to understand the otherwise cruelly inexplicable? Times, Sunday Times
Why the officer corps of the army or the conscript regular soldiers were all fired is inexplicable.
No longer do the middle classes loaf about in inexplicable luxury. Times, Sunday Times
His behaviour is entirely explicable.
Perhaps what had seemed inexplicable then would not seem inexplicable now. Times, Sunday Times
But for some inexplicable reason he opted to turn and attempt to pass back to Mannone. The Sun
In it, golf turns up as a gag having to do with such inexplicable jargon as "mashie" and "cleek. What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike?
By the end of 2008, Castilian agriculturist Cayo Lara replaced Gaspar as leader, thus bringing to an abrupt end an episode marked by an inexplicable drift towards the centre. Spain's socialist moment
The removal of that filthy, vile piece was not inexplicable.
Communion and oblivion, sex and death, the mystery can be revealed - but it can be revealed only as totally inexplicable.
The book became a hit thanks to Singh's gift for explaining the inexplicable.
Sitting in a pub, brooding on fate's inexplicable blows, he encounters Geoff.
For some inexplicable reason, her cheeks flooded with colour.
Under pluralism, differences in access to resources or life chances etc. become largely explicable in terms of personal culpability or luck.
Then had come vertigoes and strange, inexplicable qualms, as if he were in an elevator that sank under him with terrifying rapidity. The Pit: A Story of Chicago
How do you explain the seemingly inexplicable? Times, Sunday Times
At his first school, his odd and inexplicable behaviour continued. Times, Sunday Times
In Between the Worlds, a quiet American city has been struck by an inexplicable crime wave!
It's been suggested that this otherwise inexplicable aspect of chimp life is a little bit like a religious service. Times, Sunday Times
Then there are the names that dictate one's chosen profession: Arsène Wenger's name surely explains his inexplicable devotion to Arsenal, while the recently captured Jamaican drug lord Christopher Coke is absolutely my drug dealer du choix. What could be better than the man who once pocketed a £21m bonus being called Diamond?
Soon these experiences lost their numinous, revelatory character and became recreational and explicable.
But in these oppressive surroundings, the seemingly inexplicable becomes very worrying and you begin to look for other explanations. Times, Sunday Times
For some inexplicable reason the natural paths over Po Toi's beautiful and rugged landscape have been concreted over.
For anyone on the outside the concept can seem inexplicable: who on earth would watch other people play computer games? Times, Sunday Times
I show that it is best explicable as an index of old-fashioned attitudes and that its correlation with racism simply shows that it is now old-fashioned to avow openly racist attitudes.
Scientists had maintained that the crop failure was not explicable.
No doubt about it, the evolution of biochemical systems, even complex multipart ones, is explicable in terms of evolution.
I had often on previous occasions remarked that Panuel, who, when sober, was as silent as Videy, and looked like her in the face, became, the moment that he passed into 'market-merriness,' as frank and communicative as Sinfi, and (what was more inexplicable) _looked_ as much like Sinfi as he had previously looked like Videy. Aylwin
A premonition is an early warning of future events and is dominated by physical sensations: an inexplicable feeling of unease or excitement that something bad or good is about to happen. Decoding Your Destiny
His reply was quite the most mournful plea for understanding I had ever heard in three decades of involvement in the crazy inexplicable world of racing.
Progressing by decade, Sutherland offers an informed and zippy commentary on an inexplicable phenomenon.
The inexplicable disappearance of some nonlocal seasonal women worders worried everyone.
It is best explicable as an index of old-fashioned attitudes and its correlation with racism simply shows that it is now old-fashioned to avow openly racist attitudes.
For some inexplicable reason, the investors decided to pull out.
This habit of taking tobacco gradually extended from the extremities of the north to those of the south, and, in one form or other, seems to be equally grateful to the inhabitants of every climate; and by a singular caprice of the human species, no less inexplicable than unexampled (so bewitching is the acquired taste for Confederate Prisoners at Roanoke Island
For the time being, home was a railway compartment with a very hard bunk, in a train which made many inexplicable stops.
Given how ubiquitous violence is today, he argues, our immunity to it on screen is explicable but terrifying.
How we had found each other in this throng of 250,000 people was inexplicable. Times, Sunday Times
It is by definition a complex object, and all complex objects are explicable as logical constructions out of logically simple elements.
Stead off, ‘Andrew’ Cole on, Radostin Kishishev has an inexplicable brainstorm in front of goal, weakly knocks it to Kiely, and Cole gets in and scores.
Those powerful and seemingly inexplicable sensations which an anxious person experiences in some situations are in fact easily explained. Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
The tale of a supermarket full of Maine shoppers who find themselves trapped within by an inexplicable ground fog bearing creatures from another dimension, the story and film recall Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS 1963 - there's even a similar resident whack job turned doom prophesier - but do without Hitch's trademark sense of detachment. Through this wonderland alone
For some inexplicable reason, he's decided to cancel the project.
Illegal subcontracting, unjustifiable fees and inexplicable budget overruns contributed to a grim mix of apparent frauds. Times, Sunday Times
Actions are sudden and impromptu and the motive sometimes so inexplicable that we simply have to accept them on trust.
And, in spite of my confusion and agitation, the inexplicable voice which we call presentiment whispered in my heart: 'He has forbidden you to CALL him father, but he has not said that he is not your father.' The Count's Millions
So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the BÃ¡bÃ Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed. Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab
Inexplicable things happen to irrational people; unhinged persons zigzag across an unmoored world.
For some inexplicable reason, he felt depressed.
Perhaps what had seemed inexplicable then would not seem inexplicable now. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, he continues, as most modern & contemporary poets, too, do, to break his lines in inexplicable places, a kind of game of hide & seek with the reader. Bertolt brecht | the burning of the books | bad time for poetry | reading the paper while brewing the tea « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
As every student of Women's Studies 101 knows, what's called aggression in men is usually trivialized as "bitchiness" in women: Men get angry; women suffer from bouts of inexplicable, hormonally-driven, hostility. Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary's Gift to Women
The success of the Revolution is explicable in terms of the weakness of the king's government.
The success of the Revolution is explicable in terms of the weakness of the king's government.
The differences in the children's achievements were not wholly explicable in terms of their social backgrounds.
The sweet scent of heather filled him with the inexplicable desire to grin like a complete lackwit. Much Ado About Marriage
Lisa is the ‘level-headed’ girl blessed with inexplicable powers of precognition but is utterly useless in a pinch.
Dark means not evading the sad and inexplicable complexities of life. Times, Sunday Times
The need of schizophrenic patients to sometimes withdraw would then be explicable as a protective response from further stimulation.
Since it first aired in 2004, audiences have primarily been drawn to The X Factor for the entertainment value to be had from watching the most disastrous auditions: the tone-deaf no-hoper who performs an acoustic version of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean accompanied on the spoons, for instance, or the mother-and-daughter duo with an inexplicable faith in their non-existent singing abilities. Cheryl Cole's favourite designers are the real winners of X Factor
Yesterday he told him their actions were inexplicable and inexcusable that night and could have had even more disastrous consequences.
She seems to wonder at the inexplicable attraction of female to male, despite the risk of imprisonment in love or spiritual dismemberment: "disarticulation" is the word she used in Undefined
For Clinton, except for his inexplicable publicness and apparent drivenness, too, is far from being the first of our leaders to fall into this trap. Rim Shots At History
Peirce, for instance, holds that the impression of novelty which a new occurrence produces is explicable only on the theory of chance, and Bergson seems to be in no better case when he tries to explain what he calls the devenir réel. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
The world is completely explicable in its own terms.
Being alone in the office with her boss evoked the scene with the father and the sense of enigmatic, inexplicable menace. Times, Sunday Times
As for me, I found myself suddenly plunged into instant, and to me, inexplicable melancholia. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
The Los Angeles Times said some in the crowd threw bottles at police while others mocked and taunted them, dancing on squad cars or lying flat across the ground in what is known as "planking," a pretty much inexplicable Internet meme that is at once irreverent and potentially dangerous. NYT > Home Page
Their etiology and teleology are explicable within a moral and historical paradigm.
He said other methods of sabotage being used were what he termed inexplicable increases in prices of commodities by businesses and manufacturers here. ANC Daily News Briefing
But for some inexplicable reason he opted to turn and attempt to pass back to Mannone. The Sun
Thoughts conceived under the dominion of that spell are often realized; but we then attribute their pre-vision to a power we call presentiment, -- an inexplicable power, but a real one, -- which our passions find accommodating, like a flatterer who, among his many lies, does sometimes tell the truth. The Chouans
It also felt unlikely to run away with you, so that its stiff switch remains inexplicable but seems far less important. Times, Sunday Times
The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.
Officials from the wildlife department say there is no 'explicable' reason for the falling number of tigers. TreeHugger
The delay is partly explicable by the road works.
In other words, we can conclude that all known adaptations are, in principle, explicable by natural selection. Crossroads
Does the existence of something inexplicable make our own mind, our own mystery that much more special?
The activity is marred by the inexplicable appearance of treasure chests that spew inane facts.
To them it will be inexplicable that this man, with his health and his millions, could not go on living as his class lived, keeping regular hours at desk and stock exchange, driving close contracts, underbidding his competitors, and exulting in the business disasters of his fellows. Fomá Gordyéeff
Is there an otherwise inexplicable fact? Times, Sunday Times
You know, ever since watching him on TV for the first time back in June, the Midterm Roundup has felt an eerie, sort of inexplicable sense of distrustfulness toward Tom Kean, Jr. Midterm Roundup
The original worked so much better exactly because he was an inexplicable force of nature that defied any easy categorization.
He also had an inexplicable fondness for overstuffed pastrami sandwiches. FLOATING CITY
It is inexplicable that these women find optimism amid calamity when like lemmings our young rush to enlist in the politics of cynicism amid relative fortune.
If the camera stops working for inexplicable electronic reasons, check the batteries. Photographers Handbook
There is always something inexplicable about hideous crimes. Times, Sunday Times
Had I, in some inexplicable way, left my own town earlier than I intended, and really travelled in a slow train?
If I have a chance to meet him, I will tell him that basically I love inexplicable true-event based stories and his stories has successfully left my mind in trance since they seem real but stand beyond it, which makes me wanting to read more and more of his works. Influenced by One Sensible Sentence « Write Anything
His behaviour is explicable in the light of his recent illness.
I have a pretty good idea about what underlies the technology of sorcery, and it's perfectly explicable in standard scientific terms. TROPIC OF NIGHT
But it seems inexplicable that he used so few primary as well as secondary materials.
It's more about the illogicality of suffering and how inexplicable that is and how we fight against it in all our lives, whether it's cancer or whatever.
But I apprehend that we were personally fortunate in engaging a servant with a taste for cordials, who swelled our running account for porter at the public – house by such inexplicable items as ‘quartern rum shrub (Mrs. C.)’ David Copperfield
His behaviour is only explicable in terms of his recent illness.
All three of the features just discussed ” mandatoriness, speed, and shallowness ” are associated with, and to some extent explicable in terms of, informational encapsulation. Modularity of Mind
The delay is partly explicable by the road works.
There is always something inexplicable about hideous crimes. Times, Sunday Times
Already this has been a tour where attempting to explain the inexplicable has become a parlour game.
He had a powerful sense of the emptiness of his remembered landscape, animated only momentarily by human action; life becomes explicable as a diagrammatic series of gestures and relationships, "the underlying magic", as Miró described it, and he developed a way of painting that seemed to respond to those energies. Joan Miró: A life in paintings
These atrocities aren't readily explicable by any of the default analyses or classic responses of conventional politics.
I had strolled through the carnival grounds once, and upon my return was drawn to the fortunetelling booth for what I can only describe as inexplicable reasons. Heart-Stopping Hallowe'en Horror, Left And Right
The trend is explicable in terms of a set of often unrelated and often seemingly innocuous market decisions and administrative policies.
Hamilton's use of the word inconceivable, and finds that it is applied in three senses, in one of which all that is inexplicable, including the first principles, is held to be inconceivable. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Aubrey decided it was Malan's unexpected but wholly explicable presence that imbued him with this sense of -- of conspiracy. THE LAST RAVEN
She was aware that she was babbling, but for some inexplicable reason she was nervous.
Even some of the cases that are explicable in ideological terms reveal subtle shadings just beneath the surface.
It would be another man's name, another fortuitous match of an unused life and a sociopath 's inexplicable mission. THE LAST PLACE

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