How to Use inexpressible in a Sentence

inexpressible

adjective
  • The void left by her absence over the years is inexpressible.
    — CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Losing his best friend was an inexpressible loss, but there was little time to grieve.
    — The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Few people, even once in their lives, dare to make the inexpressible real.
    — Tove Ditlevsen, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Open your eyes, feel your senses and marvel at the inexpressible beauty in each corner without any tourists.
    — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
  • And your desire to continue to excavate and express the inexpressible doesn’t leave you.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • This is not the sound of irony or indifference but of bafflement in the face of inexpressible experience.
    — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Flights of doves, cymbals clanging, inexpressible feelings of relief.
    — Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2017
  • And to my ears (and my inexpressible relief), Sanderlin’s does just that, taking my story from one body to another, just like a book might.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • Thousands, throats growling and laughing and expressing what had heretofore been inexpressible.
    — June Millington, Billboard, 1 June 2017
  • And doesn’t everybody have that inexpressible need – that impossible want – for something?
    — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Happiness is unique, inexpressible, a state that exists outside of narrative.
    — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
  • What stands out is the way that Fastvold’s film renders the furtive, the inexpressible, the typically-repressed in primary color.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2021
  • At its height, MacDonald’s writing captures the inexpressible rhythm of being.
    — Matt Damsker, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The narrative uses native wildflowers and plants to depict the inexpressible.
    — Katherine Tulich, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
  • There was a graceful finality about her performance, a melancholy blend of joy and loss that seemed to capture the inexpressible, exquisite heartbreak of grief and nostalgia.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • This includes what can be expressed and what is inexpressible, what leaders should or should not tell people and the whole inexplicable issue of worthiness and sacrifice for common good.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Amanda Gorman captured the country's inexpressible thoughts and mood by beautifully crafting inspiring words that touched the nation and viewers all over the world.
    — Dr. Richard Osibanjo, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him.
    — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Now, finally, the cell itself dissolves away into an abstract chemical machine—and that into some intangible, inexpressible flow of energy.
    — Loren C. Eiseley, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • As with many blue-collar workers, his religion is less about doctrinal adherence to faith and morals than solemn and inexpressible sentiments attached to rituals, embedded in a community.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Or the inexpressible joy of comedian Patti Harrison rhapsodizing about loving wine?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 July 2021
  • Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
    — Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Set against Australia’s breath-taking, natural landscape and with native wildflowers and plants providing a way to express the inexpressible, this enthralling family drama spans decades.
    — Josie Howell | [email protected], al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • During the Vietnam era, according to these studies, these women were full of inexpressible rage against both their absent husbands and the pressures to satisfy their husbands’ emotional needs while endlessly stifling their own.
    — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
  • O'Riordan was capable of articulating seemingly inexpressible emotions, both through her towering cry and her intimate songwriting, resulting in some of the most indelible pop/rock hits of her generation.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Still, Annihilation’s commitment to older psychoanalytic (and deconstructionist) models for the self and its inexpressible shadows makes this a readily accessible drama of emotion.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2018

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