How To Use Thinkable In A Sentence

He said the unsayable and the unthinkable but with a twinkle. Times, Sunday Times
That may seem unthinkable now, but it is wise to plan for complications. Times, Sunday Times
Losing the prized top rating was unthinkable, he said. Times, Sunday Times
Then the unthinkable happened and the boat started to sink.
Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable.

Most people in the country have been touched by unthinkable tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
The fact that rigidity in the monetary unit's purchasing power is unthinkable and unrealizable does not impair the methods of economic calculation.
Other families with other children, he says, have suffered unthinkable loss.
For a second, I thought he was going to do the unthinkable and just pull off without getting his fare. THE CALLIGRAPHER
NEWCASTLE captain Michael Owen admits the prospect of Newcastle dropping out of the Barclays Premier League is unthinkable. Undefined
To the Volunteers, such was simply unthinkable, and they had automatically assumed that the people thought likewise.
But then the unthinkable happened; the boat sailed off without him.
In the event you dont know what the unthinkable is .... it is her getting her butt kicked as is happening now. pretty soon this BS will be over and the country can get on with electing our next president. Full Michigan delegation with half-vote to be seated by Dems
Offering credit cards to students would have been considered an unthinkable act of profligacy on behalf of the banks a decade earlier.
In all facets of its being, the monster instantiates the limits of the thinkable.
While the fundamental risk remained Global Thermonuclear War prosecuted by one or both of the only nation-states capable of accomplishing such a civilization-threatening feat single-handedly or 'cooperatively', the contributing risks represented by escalation and alliances opened a larger number of paths from the status quo to the unthinkable outcome and some of those paths had distinctly lower thresholds standing between origin and outcome. The Speculist: Doomsday Clock Speculist Challenge
The scale of destruction is unthinkable, and the horror is unspeakable.
But it is virtually unthinkable that it could end in an acquittal, still less a mistrial.
Whenever the unthinkable happens, you can be pretty sure science fiction will unthink it. What's Wrong with Star Trek?
At that time, it would not have been thinkable to openly criticize the government.
I don't just mean in the field of higher education, where Americans give, or give back, to their places of nurture on a scale that we find unthinkable.
An accompaniment played by corneas and sackbuts would be unthinkable here, for they are the instruments of ceremony, and with its bitter text this is the antithesis of a ceremonial work.
Divorce was unthinkable, something that wasn't an option. Why Am I Afraid to Divorce?
But they are not just reactionary eclectics; they think they can twist and recombine architectural history in fresh and original ways that would have been unthinkable before modernism wiped the slate clean.
It was unthinkable that any one save a thief and an out-right scoundrel, such by the way as were all of his business rivals and the men who refused to tote and carry at his bidding, should make a threat like that; worse than unthinkable, utterly, depravedly disgraceful that one of the house of Packard should resort to such devious and damnable practices. Man to Man
It failed to anticipate that victory could come only at an unthinkable price.
Thankfully Ferguson was one of them too, and the unthinkable defeat became merely an unpalatable draw.
Although nobody can deny that having a ‘royal’ among the riders is added cachet for the sport, it is unthinkable that team selection could be done on anything other than merit.
This antirationalism would have been unthinkable in a Leibnizian text. Kant and Leibniz
I also believe that such a situation not at all "thinkable" in the USA. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
And this is an unthinkable, unspeakable tragedy that, in my opinion, came out of left field.
By doing the unmentionable, the unthinkable, Sethe bears witness to the despair of a black woman slave faced with the threat of having ‘the best part of her… sullied’.
His student team was not allowed to kick for touch and the style was running and passing; ungentlemanly conduct was unthinkable.
I asked my new friends if the party was being vlogged in real time and their response told me that life without recording it was unthinkable.
The addition of what the APA is calling "hypersexual disorder" would legitimize sex addiction in a way that was unthinkable just a few years ago, when Bill Clinton's philandering was regarded as a moral failing or a joke - but not, in the main, as an illness. TIME.com: Top Stories
To the same situation different modes of reacting are thinkable and feasible.
It is unthinkable that a mistake like this could have happened.
It's becoming almost unthinkable in modern life that we should have to wait for anything. Times, Sunday Times
Aiello says the ghoulish graveyard thefts would have been unthinkable in an earlier age.
They considered it unthinkable that railroads could be displaced as the backbone of the country's transportation system. MANAGING FOR RESULTS
To replace the fine organ with an electronic keyboard is bad enough, but to move the altar and remove the pews is quite unthinkable.
Once unthinkable, Washington's chatterers now talk of it incessantly.
It is quite unthinkable that a child like him can speak a foreign language so fluently.
This remained the case through to William Beveridge, whose declamation of the five evils of ‘Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness’ would be almost unthinkable now.
Once equality becomes thinkable, that is, once the notion that inequalities are eternal and unchangeable is shattered, people begin to seek equality relentlessly and compulsively.
Defeat here after losing to Holland in their last fixture would be unthinkable. The Sun
Without a pedigree authenticated by fellow nobles, true nobility was unthinkable - a problem that could cause acute embarrassment to the recently ennobled or the progeny of mésalliances.
It's not unthinkable that Britain's most under-privileged people might bristle at the sight of a titled toff practicing the art of noblesse oblige. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
On Tuesday, I rode in a criterium, which is a short race that lasts about an hour, but the pain was too strong and the foot swelled up so at the moment it’s unthinkable that I can take part in a high level race like San Sebastián,” Chavanel said. Barredo back for Clásica defense; Chavanel sidelined
And here, in the unforgetable crypts of man's unwritten history, unthinkable and unrealizable, like passages of nightmare or impossible adventures of lunacy, he encountered the monsters created of man's first morality that ever since have vexed him into the spinning of fantasies to elude them or do battle with them. LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
Suddenly, quite suddenly, the idea of exertion, of any effort whatever, was become odious to him ... odious and unthinkable. Ultima Thule
The latter is almost unthinkable. Times, Sunday Times
Before the event got under way, that prospect seemed pretty much unthinkable.
On the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II in 1940, Iris James, the postmistress of Franklin, a small town on Cape Cod, does the unthinkable: She doesn't deliver a letter. The Postmistress: Summary and book reviews of The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.
Further, Rosie let her daughter fight the shark -- a near-unthinkable incursion into what only a few years ago was a nearly unbreachable boys' bastion of angling. Carl Safina: Shark Attacked, Media Bites Rosie O'Donnell
At that time, it was unthinkable that anyone would believe that it was anything but real, especially after a decoration of tinsel and an assortment of differently shaped and coloured baubles.
Okay, while probably "thinkable," but not realistic. October 31st, 2009
In the sixties, probably even in the seventies, such an argument would have been unthinkable.
The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel. Blue Diary: Summary and book reviews of Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman.
It takes a burden off their shoulders and they can move into jobs previously unthinkable, such as teaching. Times, Sunday Times
Failing to find new ways to identify and pass on knowledge and experience is unthinkable. Times, Sunday Times
This enables her to enter ports and rivers that would be unthinkable for the big vessels. The Sun
This enables her to enter ports and rivers that would be unthinkable for the big vessels. The Sun
Today the interwebs went all kinds of cray when Beyonce did the unthinkable and revealed a super-short new 'do.
Books on mysticism and the supernatural abound, in a way that would have been unthinkable even a few years ago.
He says the ghoulish graveyard thefts would have been unthinkable in an earlier age.
Such events seemed unthinkable to most mainstream commentators a few years ago.
But in practice that seems unthinkable. Times, Sunday Times
The one option you need to regard as unthinkable is to stay with this person. Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend reacts to breakup with threats
But, as the Conservative group leader recognised, the alternative - swingeing cuts - was unthinkable.
The curators are clearly aware that Dyce - who was older than the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - sits rather anomalously in the exhibition, yet surely and rightly felt that it would be unthinkable to omit the painter of Pegwell Bay.
This course of action would have been unthinkable to the Russian generals.
The Daily Mirror has reported that a 34-year-old UK woman has made an agonizing, and to many, an unthinkable decision of aborting her baby nine weeks into her pregnancy due to severe morning sickness, called hyperemesis gravidarum. Emaxhealth
This would have been considered unthinkable only a decade ago.
A whole winter brooding on the events of August would be unthinkable for such a meticulous mind.
He drank only when browbeaten by his peers, stopping the moment he felt his hold over the machine slipping; drugs were unthinkable. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
That would be almost unthinkable now. Times, Sunday Times
A first-use of nuclear weapons by the US should be unthinkable, and responding to a non-nuclear attack with nuclear weapons violates a central tenet of just war and US military tradition.
For his ill fortune alone, defeat was unthinkable.
In such a situation a handshake is unthinkable and a mere waving of one hand is somehow too frivolous.
The steam engine is an unthinkable contraption without the domesticating loop of the revolving governor.
The simple answer is often to do something bold and previously unthinkable. Times, Sunday Times
A couple of decades ago, such an event happening in England would have been unthinkable.
It is only Britain's curious parsimony and warped misunderstanding of free trade ideas that has failed to establish laws and a tax regime that make export of art treasures unthinkable.
This would have been considered unthinkable only a decade ago.
It was quite unthinkable to contemplate letting the title pass to a cousin, it seemed, however blameless and worthy he might be. Ungrateful Governess
What had seemed unthinkable, now seemed to be inevitable. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Anything other than a home win is unthinkable if United are to stand a chance of reclaiming their title.
GO one step further than ditching heels - by doing the previously unthinkable and wearing trainers to the office. The Sun
You can believe that these atrocities changed the world and made hitherto unthinkable expedients necessary.
What really strikes the crowd of onlookers is that this unthinkable thing has taken place and nothing happens.
That the current system is dysfunctional enough that such a thing might soon become thinkable - and for the same reason illegal abortion was once thinkable, that is, because at least some patients were sufficiently desperate to demand the service - is my point. Off the grid or black market medicine
By 60, you've learnt to think the unthinkable and, even better, to say the unsayable.
And as yet he dared not dart the light-beam into that pit of darkness, for fear of precipitating an unthinkable tragedy -- if, indeed, the horror had not already been cons summated. Darkness and Dawn
It was unthinkable that two vibrancers could behave in such a manner.
From "birther" - led citizen grand juries charging the president with fraud, to gun-toting protesters outside presidential events, organized opposition to the new administration and its policies has taken on a decidedly radical bent, giving rise to the unthinkable: what if some lunatic, or a group of them, decides to transition from vicious rhetoric to violent action? AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Though a certain work of idealization is required to posit or conceive of an object as non-thinkable, nonclassical theory presses on to "an epistemological double-rupture" whereby the idealization is identified as such. Introduction
Such an organisational alliance with the populist right would be unthinkable for progressive French and Dutch campaigners.
The steam engine is an unthinkable contraption without the domesticating loop of the revolving governor.
The arrival of the peak oil phenomena and gasoline prices unthinkable to comfortably numb Americans has begun to make Lane's title truer than it would have been even a year ago. The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy
This course of action would have been unthinkable to the Russian generals.
The unthinkable is the collapse of the banking system. 3M CEO George Buckley focuses on leadership training
A first-use of nuclear weapons by the US should be unthinkable, and responding to a non-nuclear attack with nuclear weapons violates a central tenet of just war and US military tradition.
His creed, and his actions, are unthinkable, but he is also our invention.
Such a system of social inequity/iniquity is unthinkable to any sensitive person -- which is why I was glad that my Chilean ancestors left South America when they did. Blue-Eyed Reconquistadores Watch
The unthinkable is placed inside and is made, as the unthinkable, Introduction
Her strong Catholic beliefs made abortion unthinkable.
It is unthinkable that we shall allow a nuclear holocaust to occur.
Defeat here after losing to Holland in their last fixture would be unthinkable. The Sun
Without a doubt, we are living in a disturbing new world, where what was once unthinkable has become reality.
It is almost unthinkable but we are all getting quicker. The Sun
At that point the unthinkable seemed about to come to pass. Times, Sunday Times
Once considered unthinkable, vaginal delivery after a previous caesarean section remains a safe option for many women.
She felt it, and visioned it as by an unthinkable clairvoyance, and gasped, for the flurry of war was over. CHAPTER IV
It is unthinkable that we shall allow a nuclear holocaust to occur.
Equally irrelevant questions might have been devised for male candidates, but since the male officeholder was "normal," such questions were not only un-askable, but unthinkable. Robin Lakoff: Election 2010: Man Pants and the Girlie-Man
Even elusive, reclusive creatures such as beaked whales are giving up data in previously unthinkable detail. EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
Yet think of other Scots for whom such a remedy would be unthinkable.
The narrative's overarching theme is how humans cope with the unthinkable. Times, Sunday Times
It is one of the ironies of existence that each human being, once in his life, will come to think thoughts which were once unthinkable. THE BROKEN GOD
And if Hank so much as twinged, the pain would be … unthinkable. The Darkest Edge of Dawn
The sacrifices people made in the second world war would have seemed unthinkable just a short while beforehand, he says. Times, Sunday Times
Such an encounter was unthinkable days ago. Times, Sunday Times
Next to knowing the mind of an anarchist, perhaps the greatest value of this book lies in its bald, matter-of-fact narration of the unthinkable cruelty and lunatic management of our prisons. Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards
The concept is unthinkable for any other state agency.
Indeed the almost unthinkable must now be considered. Times, Sunday Times
To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. February Releases! « Urban Fantasy Land
This would have been considered unthinkable only a decade ago.
Until the unthinkable happened on race day morning, that is. Times, Sunday Times
He wreaks His vengeance through them against whomsoever He wishes among His slaves It is unthinkable that those who are double-faced among them should prosper over the faithful. Negotiating for peace with Hamas
The narrative's overarching theme is how humans cope with the unthinkable. Times, Sunday Times
There, too, she had first tasted the back of a hand in anger, the sting of a horsewhip, bone-deep fear and, finally, an unthinkable act of self defense. Without A Trace
We've got to think the previously unthinkable. Times, Sunday Times
At that time, it would not have been thinkable to openly criticize the government.
This would have been unthinkable under previous authoritarian municipal governments.
Our nation has made great progress in advancing civil rights, but this unthinkable conspiracy is a reminder that hate-fueled violence continues to be a very real problem in so many communities," said Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division. Man who threatened to kill Obama sentenced to 10 years
That's amazing when you think about it: 20 or 30 kilos of steel, rubber, leather and maybe some plastic "overbuilt" to such a high quality standard that it can reliably carry several or many times its weight for a service life unthinkable for most products. Velorution
To replace the fine organ with an electronic keyboard is bad enough, but to move the altar and remove the pews is quite unthinkable.
Whereas this same sort of native poetic dearth will inspire fifteenth- and sixteenth-century humanists to link themselves genealogically to classical antecedents, for Horace such a linking is unthinkable.
It would not have been thinkable to criticize a Soviet leader before these changes came about.
Failing to find new ways to identify and pass on knowledge and experience is unthinkable. Times, Sunday Times
But it keeps coming away in his hands and he has a sickening feeling of horror that he may be causing grave and unthinkable damage, so he just guiltily muddles it up into a ball.
Such an encounter was unthinkable days ago. Times, Sunday Times
The concept of heroism became unthinkable except in relation to fanatical military force.
Forgetful of safety, of his own life itself, entranced by the wonder of the unthinkable and unguessable thing, he raised his knife to strike heavily from a long stroke, but was prevented by THE RED ONE
Striving in a law-bound, seemingly rational universe made success more thinkable, possibly more doable.
From a legal perspective it seemed unthinkable. Times, Sunday Times
I certainly got the sense there that there is a bit more willingness to think what was previously considered unthinkable. Times, Sunday Times
It was, for them, unthinkable to have a national church with sectaries outside.
Indeed, war between states with contrasting political and economic systems may also be unthinkable because they have a history of friendly relations.
Such unthinkable setbacks on the racecourse inevitably bring unwarranted gossip from the punting masses. Times, Sunday Times
But they hadn't driven clear of Corps area before every thinkable disadvantage had declared itself. DISPLACED PERSON
Once vice-chancellors start to think the unthinkable, then the issue becomes part of the agenda and it becomes harder to retreat.
It is because these groups are free-floating agents rather than rooted political actors, reflecting the kind of Western intervention that revived their fortunes in the 1990s, that they can execute what appear to be unthinkable acts.
Some Singaporeans, emboldened by the drive for feedback, seem to be taking the government at its word with a temerity that would have been unthinkable - and unpublishable - in the past.
These very mirages are the unthinkable and incalculable congeries of appearances that crowd in upon you and form you out of the past, and that sweep you on into dissemination into other unthinkable and incalculable congeries of appearances to people the ghost land of the future. Chapter 36
But it's unthinkable that they should allow the krytron into the hands of their oldest ally.
Relegation is unthinkable and would be tantamount to financial melt-down.
Such an unthinkable and deplorable situation would affect every aspect of potential business and the quality of life for the future generations in Swindon.
Factory farms are also major contributors to the increasing risk of forborne illness in the U.S. poultry has been and remains the number one culprit, they fuel the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and causes unthinkable suffering for animals. Alexis Stewart: Celebrating the Holidays Sensibly
This course of action would have been unthinkable to the Russian generals.
Her strong Catholic beliefs made abortion unthinkable.
In a town where "" face time '' is everything, Rubin, a quietly self-confident investment banker, does the unthinkable: he routinely gives back his al-lotted 15 minutes a day with the president if he has nothing to say. 'This Thing Is A Turkey'
I remember well, but to go back to the time this handy appliance wasn't part of every kitchen's equipment is practically unthinkable now.
(From Borders. com) To save her father, Hollywood stuntwoman and vampire hunter Dawn Madison must enter the vampire Underground, where she will encounter an unthinkable betrayal. WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR JANUARY 24TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
Such a course would never be acceptable, or even thinkable, if undertaken by a single nation.
His eerie, unsettled melodies are a velvet stage for his tortured paedophiles and uxoricidal romantics, never Jack The Ripper, always Humbert Humbert, doomed anti-heroes formed from our unthinkable thoughts.
Families were still partial to idlis and dosas, and cereal for breakfast was unthinkable.
All the comedy, tatty eccentricity and devil-may-care cynicism are utterly gone - and of course the ambiguous cliffhanger ending is unthinkable.
Still I persisted and wore them anyway for protection, believing they would act as a talisman, because it would be unthinkable that someone wearing such precious shoes could be anything short of cheerful, could be scuffing the floors of hallways along which children might actually die. Between Expectations
June 4th, 2008 12: 19 pm ET hillary clinton has no respect for borak obama. for whatever reason she has always been trying to look down upon him, discredit him. her denial to to recognize him as the party nominee is unthinkable and reflects her deep, profound hatred and disdain for mr. obama and lack of common courtesy. this is even not good politicking. this is pathetic. Dem leaders urge superdelegates off the fence
This 35-minute symphony in one movement could hardly be more serious, and it finds the composer embracing tonality and convention in a manner that would have been unthinkable to him twenty years earlier.
Indeed, their very power has made their use intolerable, even unthinkable, because of the annihilative retaliation in kind that such use would invoke. Lester Bowles Pearson - Nobel Lecture
This is made thinkable as a prospect by the numerous people of the region who, as any observant traveler will notice, are excellent gardeners, who practice other arts of subsistence such as beekeeping, and who by such means have kept alive the spirit of self-sufficiency and independence. Energy Bulletin -
Such soiled realism would have been unthinkable as Oscar-winning fare a generation ago, but today, to revive an anciently unfunny bumper sticker, you do not have to be mad to work in Hollywood, but it helps.
For the first time respectable commentators are openly discussing what was once unthinkable: the possibility of an imperial divorce. Times, Sunday Times
Frege captures the idea nicely when he says that a logical principle is valid in “the widest domain of all; [¦] not only the actual, not only the intuitable, but everything thinkable” (Frege 1884, 21). Plural Quantification
This would have been considered unthinkable only a decade ago.
In Pashtun terms splitting the family in this way was almost unthinkable. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
This question, unthinkable not long ago, is now mainstream. Times, Sunday Times
It is unthinkable that we shall allow a nuclear holocaust to occur.
The 1970s saw the dawn of the "personal computer" -- a phrase unthinkable a mere decade earlier, when computers had shrunk from boxcar-sized to merely pickup-truck-sized ... but were not expected to shrink much more. Chris Weigant: From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40
It would be unthinkable today for an Oxbridge choral scholar, or just about any young British chorister, not to sing the full Messiah regularly. Massive Messiah
Now he was walking away, putting family before his political patron, a previously unthinkable desertion. Times, Sunday Times
It is almost unthinkable that that could happen. Times, Sunday Times
We're big enough to take the knocks when they're due, but is it so unthinkable sometimes to recognise and celebrate success?
Before the royal family's flight, regicide was generally considered an unthinkable option which was advocated only by the most violent of extremists.
Just as unthinkable is reconstruction in a bowl below sea level and below the level of the river and lake in an area subject to increasingly frequent hurricanes on terrain slowly sinking into the Gulf of Mexico. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine
The 1970s saw the dawn of the "personal computer" -- a phrase unthinkable a mere decade earlier, when computers had shrunk from boxcar-sized to merely pickup-truck-sized... but were not expected to shrink much more. Chris Weigant: From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40
This entire trend toward women's secular leadership makes it more "thinkable" that women can become religious leaders as well. Maureen Fiedler: Women As Religious Leaders: Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling
Unthinkable not long ago to vacation in Nicaragua, it is now perhaps on the brink of a tourism revolution. Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
Until recently it would have been unthinkable that a British monarch could be honoured at a venue steeped in such emotion. Times, Sunday Times
His originality is in visualizing thought via gutsily graphic means and in rendering unthinkable violence even more extreme through hallucinatory abstraction.
Unthinkable not long ago to vacation in Nicaragua, but now, fully bathed in peace, and blessed with preternatural beauty, it is a beginning blip on the adventure travelers 'radar; perhaps at the brink of a tourism revolution. Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
Striving in a law-bound, seemingly rational universe made success more thinkable, possibly more doable.
My concern was for the people who were on board the train, it would have been unthinkable if the train had derailed.
In the sixties, probably even in the seventies, such an argument would have been unthinkable.
It is quite unthinkable that a child like him can speak a foreign language so fluently.
Yet many contemporary dishes, from pesto genovese to spaghetti alle vongole with clams, would be unthinkable without it. Delizia!
The steam engine is an unthinkable contraption without the domesticating loop of the revolving governor.

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