IMMEASURABLE in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for IMMEASURABLE, such as:

1. The refugee problem has now reached immeasurable proportions.
2. Her films had an immeasurable effect on a generation of Americans.
3. For a fleeting immeasurable instant, he pressed her body close to his.
4. He appeared to address condescending words to him from an immeasurable height.
5. The cell was clean, though empty, and dry, though situated at an immeasurable distance under the earth.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMMEASURABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
immeasurable
 a.  impossible to measure
 a.  beyond calculation or measure
Classic Sentence:
1  For a fleeting immeasurable instant, he pressed her body close to his.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  For an immeasurable second the two spectators of the incident were silent; then the house-door closed, the hansom rolled off, and the whole scene slipped by as if with the turn of a stereopticon.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3  That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing focus of the glassy ocean's immeasurable burning-glass.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant.
4  He appeared to address condescending words to him from an immeasurable height.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V
5  And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVIII
6  The cell was clean, though empty, and dry, though situated at an immeasurable distance under the earth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 114. Peppino.
7  I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted around me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
8  Having uttered those words in a most lamentable and heart-broken tone: to the immeasurable delight of her hearers: Miss Nancy paused, winked to the company, nodded smilingly round, and disappeared.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  But, temporal or spatial, the esthetic image is first luminously apprehended as selfbounded and selfcontained upon the immeasurable background of space or time which is not it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  As they took wing for this it seemed to him that they were flying indeed, flying far up into the cloudy night, with Starkfield immeasurably below them, falling away like a speck in space.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  Scarlett had found that a drink of neat brandy before supper helped immeasurably and she would always chew coffee or gargle cologne to disguise the smell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  To his impatience it seemed immeasurably long to wait, and half-ashamed of the impulse, he leaned to Mrs. Fisher to ask, as the music ceased, if Miss Bart had not dined with her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
13  The terrific character of their merciless enemies increased immeasurably the natural horrors of warfare.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
14  Ulysses answered, "Telemachus, you ought not to be so immeasurably astonished at my being really here."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
15  Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
Example Sentence:
1  Her films had an immeasurable effect on a generation of Americans.
2  The refugee problem has now reached immeasurable proportions.
3  The long-term intangible benefits of the Health Corps are immeasurable, but just as real.