inexplicable

in a sentence

Any sign of danger, a distant howl, the inexplicable break of a branch, sent me flying back to the fence at first.†  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

Instead he tried to recapture the feelings he'd had the night before, the inexplicable feeling of happiness, the sense of destiny.†  (source) Louis Sachar, Holes, 1998

And he knew Hammond was right; some new bioengineered pharmaceuticals had indeed suffered inexplicable delays and patent problems.†  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

He knew if he waited long enough he would see crazy things—fantastic, inexplicable, dreamlike things—but everywhere he looked he found the ordinary stuff of the world.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

And miraculously — inexplicably — the snake slumped to the floor, docile as a thick, black garden hose, its eyes now on Harry.†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

Some days he saw mystery everywhere, in earthworms and holly trees and basset hounds, and the inexplicability of even the simplest life so angered and stupefied him that he almost resented any balancing elucidation.†  (source) Gish Jen, Typical American, 1991

I could make things neat and tidy again by deciding to forget the small inexplicables.†  (source) Roger Zelazny, My Name is Legion, 1976

They became a somewhat regular, though inexplicable, part of our lives; the phone would ring, and then my father or mother would say, "Vait, vait, pehleeze ...Firoozeh."†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

One of the advantages of working together for many years is that the daily rigmarole can be dispensed with quickly, leaving ample time for discussions of weightier concerns—such as rheumatism, the inadequacy of public transit, and the petty behavior of the inexplicably promoted.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

But the inexplicability of the general's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts.†  (source) Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1799

When basketball season began, there was an inexplicable discrepancy between the number of ten-cent tickets sold and the considerably larger number of kids in the bleachers.†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

At a birthday party for a friend, he stumbled inexplicably.†  (source) Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1997

But inexplicability did not rouse him to more than a cursory heed; his sense of degradation was too strong for the admission of foreign ideas; and he leant against the parapet as before.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886