Sample Sentences for
fathom
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fathom as in:  can't fathom

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    For the ways of elephants are beyond the wit of any man, black or white, to fathom.  (source)
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    My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less.†  (source)
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    De Roos repeated it slowly, but, seeing that Alessandro was not comprehending, he produced a piece of paper and a fountain pen, and wrote the word so fast that Alessandro could not have fathomed it unless he had already known it.†  (source)
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    My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.†  (source)
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    For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year.  (source)
    unfathomable = not understandable
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfathomable means not and reverses the meaning of fathomable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in fathomless means without and reverses the meaning of fathom. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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    I have not yet quite fathomed her meaning.†  (source)
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    The effort of fathoming what is in another's mind creates a distortion of what is seen.†  (source)
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    Here suddenly was an opening in the rocky wall which shut in the narrow valley of humiliation, where all her prospect was the remote, unfathomed sky; and some of the memory-haunting earthly delights were no longer out of her reach.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfathomed means not and reverses the meaning of fathomed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    300 Then boun they to faring, the bark biding quiet; Hung upon hawser the wide-fathom'd ship Fast at her anchor.†  (source)
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    So too, in a less fathomable way, was Diane who seemed at last prepared to let the subject drop.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    Because when I returned to the house I encountered Sophie in the flesh for the first time and fell, if not instantaneously, then swiftly and fathomlessly in love with her.†  (source)
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    Full of blood and violence—but also full of stories that are equally difficult to fathom.†  (source)
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