How to Use indeterminate in a Sentence

indeterminate

adjective
  • But the space is indeterminate and the whole thing’s hard to read.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2022
  • Teigen held a coupe of … something indeterminate and made a toast.
    — Helin Jung, Cosmopolitan, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Then the boy is an indeterminate age, but still teaching his Mom about love and life, as kids do.
    — Renee Valois, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The Rangers have an indeterminate amount of available spots in their bullpen.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Most tomato cages are too small for indeterminate tomato plants destined to grow to six feet or so.
    — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
  • Gilded creatures of indeterminate species are locked in combat with a wild boar as dark as night.
    — John Hooper, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The moment came and went; a noise rose, of indeterminate temper.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Top off indeterminate plants so there isn’t any new growth and baby the existing fruits.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2019
  • An indeterminate tomato plant will keep growing until the first frost (or you) kills it.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The other options are life in prison or an indeterminate term of 25-years-to-life.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2021
  • And, to be clear, a wave -- of indeterminate size -- remains the most likely outcome.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 8 May 2018
  • First up, Skull & Bones is delayed yet again, this time to some indeterminate date.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 17 May 2019
  • The name says it all—the fruits of this productive indeterminate tomato are both sweet and abundant.
    — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 7 June 2026
  • As the title suggests, much of the movie takes place during this train ride, in an indeterminate time before cell phones.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Between the rabid fans of the sci-fi franchise and his indeterminate work on a new chapter for the space saga, that’s no easy task.
    — John Wenzel, The Know, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Their pain was extreme and indeterminate, the end of time being its outer limit.
    — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • That would have been a tremendous amount of job loss and money taken out of the economy for an indeterminate amount of time.
    — Nr Interview, National Review, 23 June 2021
  • Congee is my reminder that, under the hard surfaces, the stuff of life is mostly soft and indeterminate.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2021
  • At some indeterminate time after the concert, Kit shows up at Matt’s suite.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Ground overruns figure and space grows indeterminate, and within the mists bodies skew and bend, feet appear in the wrong places.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • An indeterminate variety will often just keep adding foliage and does not set fruit in time to beat the hot, or in the fall, the cold weather.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 12 July 2019
  • Riding on a camel or in the open back of a jeep, one traverses miles and miles only to encounter more indeterminate vastness.
    — Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2019
  • In the other, a woman, her face weathered to an indeterminate age and framed by a black hijab, stares into the camera.
    — Eve Sampson, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Recently, Hechinger, who lives nearby, learned that the place was set to close at an indeterminate date in the future.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
  • As the pandemic drags on into a bleak and indeterminate future, so does the question of its origins.
    — Adam Federman, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2021
  • In this year of indeterminate killing, sanctioned by the flag, this is said to be the responsibility of the artist.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Their average age is 63, and many have indeterminate sentences that have left them behind bars for decades.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Prune indeterminate tomatoes by removing the suckers, the small shoots between the main stem and side branches.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 22 June 2026
  • If Butler looks elsewhere, the pool of candidates would be large and indeterminate.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Even the lower growing determinate types that reach three to four feet should be trained upwards and indeterminate types that grow to more than eight feet need a cage.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2018

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