How to Use unanswerable in a Sentence

unanswerable

adjective
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  • This is one of the unanswerable questions of the piece.
    — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Those are just some of the many unanswerable questions that put the Tigers at crossroads.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The students asked a lot of questions, some of them unanswerable.
    — Sun Sentinel Staff Reports, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The unanswerable question is: How much is each life worth?
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Mark and Kym faced unanswerable questions and grief head-on.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Once again, Maclean knew the question was unanswerable.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • Now, like everything else in the world, the protests face the unanswerable question of what happens next.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • What Zhang could, would, or might do in the future is a rabbit hole of what-ifs and unanswerable questions.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
  • To some degree, of course, those questions are unanswerable, and even beside the point.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
  • That’s the real question and also the most unanswerable.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
  • That leaves one question, unanswerable for the time being.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2020
  • What Constable would have made of a New York City space is in a sense an unanswerable question.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This Is Why asks a lot of questions, often unanswerable ones.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
  • In theory, the question of what to wear to work shouldn’t pose an unanswerable dilemma.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2020
  • In the meantime, we are left to ponder a suite of largely unanswerable questions.
    — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
  • And, just as haunting, just as unanswerable, why did her career stall?
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • That will depend on the simple but unanswerable question of when people will be ready to fly again.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Oct. 2020
  • That the question is unanswerable has never stopped the heartsick from picking it over.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • What these burials may have looked like — were there songs? — is an unanswerable question.
    — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 22 Apr. 2020
  • These questions are unanswerable in a world built on logic.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • Without those kinds of talks your brain is left to circle its own drain with unanswerable questions.
    — Hazlitt, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Where will that leave us – with more unanswered or unanswerable questions.
    — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Throwing up your hands and concluding that the question of the meaning of life is simply unanswerable—by you, at least—is the easy response.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • For days, the memorial has served as a refuge for those without answers to so many unanswerable questions.
    — Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2021
  • This is my attempt to answer the unanswerable questions.
    — oregonlive.com, 6 June 2019
  • Huddling in a closet with their two little boys, the couple survived the storm and now face unanswerable questions.
    — Austyn Gaffney, Antonio Olivo and Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Chantal Delsol's Icarus Fallen asks us to confront the unanswerable in our search for meaning and virtue.
    — Sahil Handa, National Review, 4 June 2019
  • Modernity did not, Wang argues, present them with an unanswerable challenge, setting up a clash between the old and the new.
    — Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The question is not unanswerable; the answer is just difficult to accept.
    — Maureen Condic, National Review, 8 Jan. 2023
  • And ultimately, the unanswerable question: What is the fair price for a family's good name?
    — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2019

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