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

Welding the hilarious farce of the first to a sense of fierce outrage over the second was a risk Davis pulled off beautifully, as this season’s nigh-perfect revival, unaccountably its first on Broadway, demonstrated.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2023

They all knelt around the table silently for quite a while, and I knew I should join them, but I felt unaccountably afraid to get close to the table.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver