How to Use fathom in a Sentence
fathom
verb
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What happened over the next two weeks is hard to fathom.
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New York Times,
22 May 2022
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It’s hard to fathom how even his base could get fired up by that.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Sep. 2019
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What never seems to get old are moves that are hard to fathom.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2021
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No one with an ounce of sense could fathom crashing through this roof.
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Charlie Dent,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2023
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The ripple effects of a season like that are hard to fathom.
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Joel A. Erickson,
The Indianapolis Star,
23 Aug. 2020
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The goal is to be at the top of the mountain, but not many can fathom what that looks like or even how to get there.
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Nishith Rastogi,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2023
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It’s hard to fathom Texas Tech will have any votes in the new poll.
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star-telegram,
21 Oct. 2017
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With that in mind, try to fathom what the NBA has in store.
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Bruce Jenkins,
San Francisco Chronicle,
6 May 2023
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These next weeks and months will be demanding in ways that are hard to fathom.
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David Remnick,
The New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2020
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That’s a pretty long way to fall—one most of us can’t even fathom.
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Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
3 Jan. 2023
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My mind could hardly fathom what those six words meant.
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Kyra Parrow,
Time,
2 Mar. 2018
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It’s hard to fathom how much can change in seven years given how much has changed in the last month.
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Ben Cohen,
WSJ,
12 July 2019
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A year and a half ago, such a scene seemed impossible to fathom.
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New York Times,
19 Oct. 2021
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The couple couldn’t fathom how their lives changed so quickly.
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Joe Mozingo,
latimes.com,
3 Sep. 2017
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It’s hard to fathom where James’ was coming from on this.
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Al Saracevic,
SFChronicle.com,
15 Oct. 2019
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In some cases, these systems achieve a scale that’s hard to fathom.
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Michael Greshko,
National Geographic,
19 Apr. 2017
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Just as the future of climate disasters is hard to fathom now.
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Seth Borenstein,
Anchorage Daily News,
10 Sep. 2020
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His legacy will be cast in a permanence that’s hard to fathom.
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Dallas News,
22 Dec. 2022
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The human tragedy that would take place in those intervening years is hard to fathom.
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Abigail Tracy,
The Hive,
4 May 2017
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Ewers can make all the throws, some that others at this level might not even fathom.
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Nick Moyle,
San Antonio Express-News,
17 Dec. 2021
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The level of wealth maintained by unnamed oil tycoons is more than most of us can even fathom.
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Jack Fitzgerald,
Car and Driver,
13 Apr. 2023
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So that means that number isn’t even possible to even fathom.
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Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
9 June 2023
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Tell me, please, that there is room for optimism in what from my vantage point is hard to fathom.
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Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Sep. 2022
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It’s hard to fathom a version of this game where Oregon struggles to score.
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oregonlive,
20 Sep. 2019
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More important is the large-scale disruption of lives, which would be hard to fathom.
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Michael Smolenscolumnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 June 2022
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His last baseball season ending this way, it's been hard to fathom.
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Richard Obert,
azcentral,
2 May 2020
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But there was something the Padres manager could not fathom.
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Kevin Acee,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
14 June 2018
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Mere mortals like us can't fathom how the gods spend their teenage downtime, after all).
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Kayleigh Roberts,
Marie Claire,
19 June 2021
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But then, a lot about San Francisco is hard to fathom these days.
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Heather Knight,
San Francisco Chronicle,
6 Apr. 2022
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Democrats are still in shock about that, and can’t fathom why so many Latinos are pro-recall.
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Los Angeles Times,
17 Aug. 2021
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