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Example sentences for "fathomed"

Lexicographically close words:
fatherless; fatherly; fathers; fathom; fathome; fathomes; fathoming; fathomless; fathoms; fati
  1. Without pretending to have fathomed completely so unfathomable a being as Buddha or even the far less unfathomable William Blake, one may nevertheless assert with confidence that Buddha and Blake stand for utterly incompatible views of life.

  2. Even now he hardly fathomed her distress, but she had made him understand that this spot and this time were too dangerous.

  3. An ingenious charity may find in that attitude evidence of modesty; to my thinking, it argues a more subtle and magnificent conceit than if he had fathomed the truth, as many humbler men in his place would have done.

  4. I fathomed it easily with a cod-line and a stone weighing about a pound and a half, and could tell accurately when the stone left the bottom, by having to pull so much harder before the water got underneath to help me.

  5. Successive nations perchance have drank at, admired, and fathomed it, and passed away, and still its water is green and pellucid as ever.

  6. She has fathomed the depth of the abyss into which blind passion may hurl even an honest man.

  7. Instinctive certainty that this detective fellow had fathomed his secret made him all the more reticent.

  8. She, too, had a soft spot for him, having fathomed the utter helplessness of this worldling's wisdom, and thinking him pathetic.

  9. In his fulness he can not be fathomed by the human mind, and it is, indeed, useless for man to attempt to define in detail the great intelligent beings of the universe.

  10. He came to me, having fathomed and laid bare the whole intention of the plot, so that, if I had not been stark mad and stupid, I might easily have seen through their design.

  11. In this respect he was so skilful a master, that he could assuredly have fathomed the depths of every method and every device used against him, and would thereby have made his castigation of myself to serve as an augmentation of his own fame.

  12. He had fathomed a depth of rascality and deception, which but a short month ago, he could scarcely have believed capable of existence.

  13. And now, by certain means known best to himself, he had fathomed an intricate network of deception and infamy among the governing heads of the State.

  14. I saw the wicked spreading like a green bay tree," says king David; and he was far from having fathomed the mystery when he got his mind at rest about it.

  15. For who in heaven or on earth has fathomed the marvel betwixt the man and the woman?

  16. How many, even among those who write, have fathomed the toil and suffering, the continence and self-denial of our great artists in words?

  17. He had fathomed the cause of her jealous hatred of Mary Marchmont; but even he did not yet understand the nature of the conflict in the desperate woman's breast.

  18. Believe me, my dear count, a woman is never fathomed except by a woman.

  19. I have fathomed you; there is nothing that could be added to your perfections except a little more faith in the love you inspire.

  20. Ten seconds' study of the position in the long, wide, shallow depression before him had fathomed the scheme of the savage.

  21. And he had a Brahman minister named Sivabhuti, equal to Vrihaspati in intellect, who had fathomed the meaning of all the Sastras.

  22. Do not rely on the love of Sundari simply because she flung herself into a well, for the treacherous schemes of a kuttini are not to be fathomed even by Providence.

  23. He had fathomed the deadly weariness that Nick had overlooked.

  24. I had already fathomed the fact that I was not beloved by Mrs. Briggs.

  25. There seemed to be something he had not fathomed behind Max's silence.

  26. Possibly he had fathomed this, and again possibly he had not wanted to be ardent.

  27. He had fathomed it to its blackest depth, and seen no hope of escape or rescue.

  28. Again, he had fathomed something of the depth of the jealous love bestowed on him, and his own affection and gratitude would have their say.

  29. That is, I had fathomed the checkerboard, had drawn a diagram, and had begun to decipher.

  30. For Martin had fathomed the boatswain's reason for baiting the Japanese.

  31. She saw Miss Julia Gardiner at Ryde, and fathomed that old story: she supposes them to be engaged, and is of much too loyal a disposition to dream of love for another woman's lover.

  32. Mrs. Betts had fathomed the whole mystery, and would have been sympathetic about it had not her young lady manifested an invincible gayety.

  33. Her woman's instinct fathomed his meaning instantly: he thought that even she must shrink from him.

  34. Like most of his profession, he was an acute physiognomist, and in that brief space he fathomed much of the character of the man who had rivaled him successfully.

  35. Well, for my own part, I have fathomed the depths of life, there is only one real sentiment--comradeship between man and man.

  36. He had fathomed the young man's thoughts, and felt that a crisis was at hand.

  37. At fifteen, the keen, intuitive mind of Rubens had fathomed the talents of those two worthies, Verhaecht and Franck.

  38. No psychologist has ever yet just fathomed the problem, and I am sure it is too deep for me--I give it up.

  39. When he had fathomed their mystery he betook himself to a brass-founder, and learned how to cast in metal.

  40. I fathomed his craft, and, as he fed his child upon poisons, I fed mine upon antidotes.

  41. He seemed no longer to care for life, and his wife fathomed his inward feeling.

  42. At the time of his death no one had ever fathomed the mystery of the senator's abduction.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fathomed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.