unaccountably

Example Sentences

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The sportswriters who selected the members of the Baseball Hall of Fame unaccountably shunned him too; Klein got less than 3% of the vote in 1948, his first year of eligibility.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

“Obsequious, oversized and unaccountably frightening” declared the Washington Post’s critic Sebastian Smee.

From Salon • May 17, 2024

Paul Hoffman, 61, formerly a machinist at an injection molding company in Reed City, Michigan, began unaccountably losing his balance in the spring of 2020.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 21, 2024

But from its lyrically stylized imagery to its unaccountably happy ending, it is also for many more people than its extreme-sounding logline and arresting, outlandish imagery might suggest.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

He felt the Ring on its chain, and quite unaccountably the desire came over him to slip it on and vanish out of the silly situation.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien