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How to use unaccountably in a sentence

11 example sentences · adverb

Unaccountably means not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable. Example: “After all that hard work, he unaccountably failed to take out the patent.”

Examples of unaccountably by meaning

adverbNot able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable.

  • After all that hard work, he unaccountably failed to take out the patent.
  • The jury was unaccountably slow to reach a verdict. He was clearly innocent.
  • The number 392, very unaccountably, was never filled, and two of the sets of parts never appear to have been assembled at all, and were presumably kept as spares.1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Maunsell Moguls in Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 186

More sentences with unaccountably

  • I struck off boldly, but soon found myself unaccountably labouring.2009, Brenda Sensicle-Creese, Sensicle, But Not Always, page 3. From the entry cossie
  • Very quickly it becomes evident that these webworks are part of an unaccountably large lair of thousands of spiders.1990, Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart, New York: Routledge. From the entry webwork
  • Unaccountably, he finds himself thinking of gerenuks and gazelles.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 139. From the entry gerenuk
  • Unaccountably, Anne Howard was at his side.1937, Astounding Stories: Lost in the Dimensions, page 58. From the entry ultradimensional
  • There was something unaccountably strange in the air that night.1909, William Hope Hodgson, The Ghost Pirates. From the entry whir
  • On one occasion the caldo verde succeeded admirably, flavors and texture nicely balanced; on another, the sausage had unaccountably been omitted and the broth oversalted.1988 July 15, Sondra Rosenberg, “Restaurant Tours: Brazil, Portugal, and Albany Park”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry oversalt
  • London died away in draggled taverns and dreary scrubs, and then was unaccountably born again in blazing high streets and blatant hotels.1910 July 23, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and…. From the entry blatant
  • The rest of the hermeneutics of 'viewpoints' is not (in my view) all that relevant, insofar as the explanatory gap (on which Nagel is unaccountably an optimist!) is concerned.2009 May 15, Stevan Harnad, “Knowing Something When You Feel It”, in PhilPapers, Western University (Canada) Department of Philosophy. From the entry hermeneuticize

Meaning of unaccountably

  1. adverb Not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable.

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Questions about unaccountably in a sentence

How do you use unaccountably in a sentence?
Unaccountably is used as an adverb. For example: “After all that hard work, he unaccountably failed to take out the patent.”
What is a short sentence with unaccountably?
“Unaccountably, Anne Howard was at his side.”
What does unaccountably mean?
Unaccountably means not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable.

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