I can't quite fathom why it's dragging on.

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Examples of 'fathom' in a sentence


We sailed into the bay and dropped anchor in five fathoms of water.

I really couldn't fathom what Steiner was talking about.

Jeremy's passive attitude was hard to fathom

We're trying to fathom out what's going on.

I'm having difficulty using my new camera and can't fathom out all its functions.


Why did he fathom the depths of her mind when she barely understood them herself?

It is impossible to fathom such depths of sheer callousness.

But pals say she has struggled to fathom the depths of his betrayal.

He could not fathom the depths of her reserve but determined he would test it well before the night was out.


I can't really fathom it at the minute.

But you can't really begin to fathom it until you're actually there.

How can a non-executive be expected to fathom the depths of Congolese mining rights?

Equally, no plumb line can fathom the depths of my misery at sitting through this overlong, mediocre serial.

It retains this same transformative power today, but one has to hear it and do it to fathom fully its life-changing power.


But I can't really fathom it.

What drives these fears is not difficult to fathom.

But those means still require a degree of effort to fathom.

Why it looked the other way on these crucial questions is hard to fathom.


Her performance under that pressure is hard to fathom.



fathom

noun [ C ]
 

a unit for measuring the depth of water, equal to 1.8 metres or 6 feet

to discover the meaning of something:

For years people have been trying to fathom (out) the mysteries of the whale's song.

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to understand someone or why someone acts as they do:

I can't fathom her at all.

to discover the meaning of something:

I just couldn’t fathom what he was talking about.

fathom

An attempt is being made to salvage the helicopter, which is lying in 26 fathoms.


He could not have meant two fathoms of chain.

In the first half of 1938 she sent us over 20,000 piled cubic fathoms.


The average depth in the harbour is about eight fathoms, but the depth in the channel leading to it is slightly less.


We can catch at 600 or 700 fathoms.

I am within 300 yards of a pit which is 200 fathoms deep.


The depth at which it can be used is, however, limited to 35 fathoms.

The figures for 1947, 1948 and 1949 were about 644,000, 544,000 and 559,000 piled cubic fathoms respectively.

Up to a few hundred yards of the coast there are 30 fathoms of water.

They need at least 40 fathoms for main construction, 100 fathoms for deck and module, and for tow-out a depth of 40 to 50 fathoms.


I can remember the time when it was extremely difficult to go down 20 fathoms.


An attempt is being made to salvage the helicopter which is lying in 26 fathoms.