Sentence examples for fathom less from inspiring English sources

Battle-scarred marines and soldiers are now doing what they couldn't fathom less than a year ago, working beside Iraqis who may have tried to kill them.

It is unlikely that America's spy agencies will be told to stop all eavesdropping on friendly foreign leaders the definition of who or what is a friend is hard to fix (spying on Mrs Merkel may be hard to fathom, less so her predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, whose links with Vladimir Putin were a source of real concern).

As subjects for musical comedy go, it would be hard to fathom anything less promising than the legal intricacies of the concept of eminent domain.

"And this particular problem, the airbag inflater explosions, is a hidden danger and something that your usual consumer wouldn't even fathom, much less worry about.

Even mainstream Israelis are dubious that a museum conceived, financed and designed by Americans can possibly fathom, much less redress, the political and social chasms here.

Just as some children love splashing in puddles while others couldn't fathom anything less appealing, two goslings, Jasper (the tidy one) and Joop (messy), frolic in different ways but with mutual appreciation.

Will it learn and rise in the aftermath of a collapse that it still barely acknowledges, much less fathoms?

Is that fathoming more or less difficult while looking at the pictures that they have made of the ocean, of buildings, of trees and flowers and the moon, ordinary subjects rendered extraordinary by the circumstance of their creation that have, against the odds, washed up on the shore of our city like messages in a bottle?

The flow of people into this Lincolnshire market town is harder to fathom, its impact is less clear.

I could say that for me, I don't have to think about doing this work because I cannot fathom treating them any less than the amazing people they are, but that would be dismissing how much work actually goes into reshaping my thoughts and inner biases.

Most midshipmen occur at depths of less than 50 fathoms (1 fathom equals 6 feet), and all are found in water shallower than 200 fathoms.