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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
- I feel a rush of inexplicable relief.Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
- There is undisguised hate for white women, there is inexplicable love.Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
- "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
- 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
inexplicable = incapable of being explained or accounted for
inexplicable = incapable of being explained or accounted for
inexplicable = incapable of being explained or accounted for
inexplicably = in a manner that cannot be explained or accounted for
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