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Example sentences for "unaccountable"

Lexicographically close words:
unacceptably; unacclimated; unaccommodating; unaccompanied; unaccomplished; unaccountably; unaccounted; unaccustomed; unacknowledged; unacquaintance
  1. Notwithstanding my abhorrence of it, I now found myself, by some unaccountable cause, entangled in a most singular and inexplicable web of mystery.

  2. God was the Artist who made the wonderful machine called man, and he crammed him full of mystery, eccentricities and unaccountable things.

  3. An unaccountable boldness came upon me, and all my timidity disappeared, and I was rash, impetuous, and I might say rude, because I seized her hand and pressed it to my lips a dozen times in rapid succession.

  4. The beautiful rosy tint has left her fair cheeks, and her disposition seems to have undergone an unaccountable change.

  5. Harry afterward informed me that a strange, unaccountable desire to ride on the pilot of the engine seized upon him, and he could not resist it.

  6. Dear brother, I beg you to hush; you are laboring under some unaccountable delusion; your trouble has been so great that it has clouded your judgment.

  7. Ah, there is where the unaccountable mystery comes in; but I have lately been informed that Miss Wallingford is in possession of some very strange facts which she believes will secure the acquittal of her friend.

  8. Sometimes they seem to fight very pluckily, and then when they have really got the best of it they seem to hesitate in an unaccountable manner.

  9. This did considerable damage, and caused much excitement, but after firing for some time they stopped in the same unaccountable way as they had done at other points.

  10. I] "Fey," a Scottish word, expressive of that unaccountable and violent mirth which is supposed frequently to portend sudden death.

  11. Another had been placed in my situation, and they did not choose to pay him off when I might think proper to return after my unaccountable absence.

  12. Philips, however, walked down the burn side, in order to try if the cool air would dissipate his unaccountable anxiety.

  13. Katherine was vexed to find how impossible it was to talk of them with composure; she was unhinged in some unaccountable way, and Lord de Burgh's ill-repressed tenderness made her feel nervous.

  14. Nothing that I had ever seen had affected me so strangely as this unfamiliar and unaccountable phenomenon, yet I am unable to recall any sense of fear.

  15. There are unaccountable noises, and a weird and eerie sort of feeling comes over him, distracting him perhaps from the perusal of his book.

  16. I am not without care for) ever stifle the satisfactions arising from a just confidence of receiving some time or other, even here, the reparation due to such unaccountable usage as I have sustained in this.

  17. She felt an unaccountable gaiety of heart that day.

  18. She felt a deep hostility to Mrs. Lawrence; she had seen Broussard with her twice, and each time there was an unaccountable familiarity between them.

  19. He has more depth of passion, more force and impetuosity, but the passion is always of the same unaccountable character, at once violent and sullen, fierce and gloomy.

  20. With an unaccountable power coming over him at an unusual age, and with the youthful confidence it inspired, he performed wonders, and was willing to set a seal on his reputation by a tragic catastrophe.

  21. She is distressed at some unaccountable changes which have taken place in your manners, your health, your personal appearance.

  22. Though she heartily disapproved of her son's conduct toward Stevens, and regarded it as one of the most unaccountable wonders, the offender was still her son.

  23. It was a perfectly unaccountable and perhaps involuntary impulse; for he still could not absolve the other from dark and heavy guilt.

  24. I fancy he had an indistinct idea that some apology was owing to her for his chief's unaccountable absence; at all events, he began to confide his misgivings on the subject as soon as the men who surrounded her moved away.

  25. My impression, certainly, is that it is entirely unaccountable by any laws with which we are acquainted, Doctor.

  26. I need not say that I believe still more now that these men do wholly unaccountable feats.

  27. But La Place insists on its being duly valued as a fact, however unaccountable as an effect.

  28. The result is not so unaccountable as it might seem.

  29. An unaccountable sense of failure stole over Rainham--unaccountable because he could lay his finger upon no tangible cause of his discomfiture.

  30. Though this seemed unaccountable at first, I afterwards found that music was much cultivated in Peru.

  31. This disease, so frequent in long voyages, and so particularly destructive to us, is surely the most singular and unaccountable of any that affects the human body.

  32. You all know there have been a series of unaccountable thefts amongst us lately.

  33. The man to my left, who was riding a white horse, pulled up in an unaccountable manner, and making a point at the one on my sword side, I ran him through the throat, my blade twisting him clean round in the saddle as I dashed on.

  34. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my views.

  35. As the years passed, however, and as the worthy Professor's stock of knowledge increased, for knowledge begets knowledge as money bears interest, much which had seemed strange and unaccountable began to take another shape in his eyes.

  36. A feeling of intense but wholly unaccountable fear gradually crept over me.

  37. Because I am certain they have seen and heard things which, for some unaccountable reason, have been held back from me.

  38. Very true; but think how mysterious and often unaccountable it is--that lottery of life which gives to this man the purple and fine linen and sends to the other rags for garments and dogs for comforters.

  39. I am sorry the cause did not proceed at least far enough to place upon the files of the court the very authentic and unaccountable story which Miss Rebecca relates.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unaccountable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adrift; afloat; agnostic; aimless; ambiguous; amorphous; antic; arcane; capricious; casual; causeless; chancy; changeable; desultory; disobedient; dizzy; doubting; eccentric; equivocal; erratic; excepted; excused; exempt; fanciful; fantastic; fantastical; favored; fickle; fitful; flickering; flighty; flitting; fluctuating; freakish; giddy; haphazard; headstrong; heady; hesitant; hesitating; immune; impenetrable; impetuous; impossible; impulsive; incalculable; incomprehensible; inconceivable; inconsistent; inconstant; incredible; indecisive; indefinable; indemonstrable; indiscriminate; inexplicable; inextricable; infirm; inscrutable; insoluble; insubordinate; irregular; irresolute; irresponsible; lawless; licensed; licentious; mazy; mercurial; mindless; moody; mutinous; mysterious; mystic; mystical; permitted; privileged; promiscuous; purposeless; rambling; rampant; random; released; restless; roving; shapeless; shifting; shifty; shuffling; skeptical; spared; spasmodic; spineless; strange; stray; unaccountable; unanswerable; unbelievable; unbridled; uncertain; unchecked; uncontrolled; unconvinced; uncurbed; undirected; undisciplined; unexpected; unfixed; unforeseeable; ungoverned; unguessed; unimaginable; unnatural; unpredictable; unprovable; unreliable; unrestrained; unsettled; unstable; unsteady; unsure; vacillating; vagrant; volatile; wandering; wanton; wavering; wavy; wayward; whimsical; wildcat; willful