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• For much of the Ice Age, men walked dryshod on the bed of the North Sea many fathoms below where ships now sail.From the entry dry-shod
• The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Virmire. From the entry apex
• I can't fathom how it will be to communicate with no one but myself.2006, Brandon Stosuy, Up is Up, But So is Down, page 205. From the entry converser
• I couldn’t fathom why any girl would want to be one.1997, Albemarle. From the entry ladiness
• Water depths range from 4 to 45 fathoms over the bank.1985, Daniel J. Dzurek, “Boundary and Resource Disputes in the South China Sea”, in Ocean Yearbook 5, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Chungsha
• Depth not too great — say 6 to 10 fathoms — and bottom a swearsome one.1967, Thomas Welsby, Andrew Kilpatrick Thomson, The Collected Works of Thomas Welsby - Volume 1. From the entry swearsome
• It’s certainly a Venn overlap that is hard to fathom.2020 September 14, Sarah Wilson, “The wellness realm has fallen into conspiritualism – I have a sense why”, in The Guardian. From the entry conspiritualism
• For millennia we have tried to fathom it: via selenography and selenomancy, poetry and algebra, robots and rockets.2019, Leah Hager Cohen, Strangers and Cousins, page 240. From the entry selenomancy
• You fancy yourself a larky buck, but there's alchemy between Jocasta and I you cannot begin to fathom.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN. From the entry larky
• I simply can't fathom what could drive someone to set fires, but every SoCal hot season they do it.2003 October 25, Kaiju, “**OT** SoCal fires”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 Jun 2024. From the entry computer vira
• They arrived at Okanogan with twenty-six horses, fathoms upon fathoms of higua, deerskin garments, and buffalo robes uncounted.1956, Cecil Dryden, By Sea on the Tonquin, Caldwell, Ida.: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., →LCCN, page 221. From the entry adventureress
• But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart?1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page…. From the entry decorous
• The pitch some fathoms below is bathed in the blue light provided by the elephantine fluorescent tubing that overgirds our fine stadium .2020, Mark Blacklock, Hinton. From the entry overgird
• By the time he reached us, for no reason I could fathom other than he was laughing and we were following, we were in bits.2013, Simon Dawson, Pigs in Clover. From the entry in bits
• The weather man couldn't even fathom what was about to be the worst flooding that we had ever experienced in our area.2012, Derra Byrd, 2 Losses 1 Divine Gift, Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press, page 11. From the entry weatherman
• Succinctly stated, your story is that nameless men from a faceless organization want to kill you for reasons which you cannot fathom.1995 October, Joseph R. Garber, “Some Fine Joke”, in Vertical Run, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry they
• Banks stocked with fishers are richer in dreams than signs of fish; the lines lead under uncircled surfaces sharp into fathoms of speculant green.1984, Emily Grosholz, The River Painter: Poems. From the entry speculant
• A shoal, with general depths of less than 3 fathoms, extends about 1 ½ miles southward of the entire south shore of Lieh Hsü.1959, Sailing Directions for the Coast of China, 6th edition, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 191. From the entry Lieh Hsü
• There it was, clear and belfried as of old, but fathoms deep, and the bells had so faint a chime that Reddin’s voice drowned them.1917, Mary Webb, chapter 31, in Gone to Earth, New York: Dutton, page 263. From the entry belfried
• James Shoal, with a depth of 12 fathoms and 22 to 30 fathoms around, lies about 25 miles northwest of Acis Shoals, as charted.1915, “NORTHWEST COAST OF BORNEO”, in Asiatic Pilot, 1st edition, volume V, number 126, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office…. From the entry James Shoal
• Accustomed as they are to electionspeak, the mainstream media can’t seem to fathom that the selection of a pope is an altogether different sort of thing.2013 February 13, Marybeth Hicks, “Media waste no time to display ignorance”, in The Washington Times. From the entry electionspeak
• In his earliest appearances he favors an upper-class drawl and inane Bertie Woosterisms masking bursts of insight that solve frustrating cases his stolid friend Inspector Charles Parker cannot fathom.2006, Mitzi Brunsdale, Gumshoes: A Dictionary of Fictional Detectives, page 12. From the entry Woosterism
• A scare line (burinawa), several hundred fathoms long, would be cast in a straight line across the current, often several kilometres from land on a flat and sandy bottom.1995, Arne Kalland, Fishing Villages in Tokugawa, Japan, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry scare line
• Certainly, there was no water for her in the pushthrough, and even the south gut never had no more'n two fathom and a half since ever I see it.1985, Farley Mowat, A Whale for the Killing, page 84. From the entry push-through
• In the littoral zone proper, there are species which are limited to very shallow water (stenobath forms) and those which extend down to 20-30 fathoms (eurybath forms).1940, Maṣlaḥat Maṣāyid al-Asmāk, Notes and memoirs - Fisheries Research Directorate. From the entry stenobath
• It is a lie detector; with its aid one can plumb the bottomless pits of a chap's subconscious mind, and fathom all the mysteries of his subliminal ego.1909, Charles Edmonds Walk, The Yellow Circle, page 69. From the entry lie detector

Meaning of fathom

1. noun A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.
2. noun An internationally standardized version of this unit, the international fathom (= 1.8288 metres = 6 feet).
3. noun A measure of distance to shore: the nearest point to shore at which the water depth is the value quoted.

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How do you use fathom in a sentence?

Fathom is used as a noun and verb. For example: “After we'd rowed for an hour, we found ourselves stranded ten fathoms from shore.”

What is a short sentence with fathom?

“But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart?”

What does fathom mean?

Fathom means a man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.