Sample sentences for INEXPLICABLE

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Definition

incapable of being explained or accounted for

Hilly sat on the edge of the pool, saggy and post-pregnant fat, inexplicably confident in her black swimsuit.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

inexplicably = in a manner that cannot be explained or accounted for

Mother finds it inexplicable that I don't want to watch my alma mater throw a ball around.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

inexplicable = incapable of being explained or accounted for

I feel a rush of inexplicable relief.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

inexplicable = incapable of being explained or accounted for

There is undisguised hate for white women, there is inexplicable love.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

inexplicable = incapable of being explained or accounted for

"He's...tall," I say, surprised she hasn't noticed that not only is my date inexplicably rude, but drop-dead drunk.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

inexplicably = in a manner that cannot be explained or accounted for

What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
Again Hare made note of their inexplicable absence.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
That seemed to me a rather curious and inexplicable fact, and I put it aside to think over.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
That's why social change is so volatile and so often inexplicable, because it is the nature of all of us to be volatile and inexplicable.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
And there were truly inexplicable things.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
Max caught his breath as the dreadnoughts came to a sudden, inexplicable halt.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
"Oh," I say, and swallow, inexplicably disappointed.
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
For some inexplicable reason he was left out of this.
Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
Thedriver was meant to turn right and skirt its edges, but instead, he inexplicably plunged straight into the sea of people.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
Wicksteed may then have come by and noticed this rod inexplicably moving through the air.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
Sometimes he leaps up in the middle of nothing at all and goes off, inexplicably, no one knows where.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
Believing for some inexplicable reason that he might be in the crowd.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
But if it were inexplicable to me, the appearance of the chart was incredible to the surviving mutineers.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
But the inexplicability of the general's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
"It's important because it's inexplicable."
David Baldacci -- Zero Day

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