How to Use unclassifiable in a Sentence

unclassifiable

adjective
  • For a novelist on the rise, this unclassifiable book could be viewed as a risky career move.
    — Mark Haskell Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The result is a book that is riveting and darkly funny and, in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.
    — The New York Times Books Staff, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • And so his nearly unclassifiable and inexhaustible solo act was of a piece with his literary calling.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Part of that alchemy comes from Winfrey’s strange, unclassifiable celebrity.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The unclassifiable artist developed in his last decades a method of painting in which tiny changes accumulated to strange new effect.
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 27 May 2022
  • The result is a record that is boundary-pushing, unclassifiable yet captivating from start to finish.
    — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Supernova is an unclassifiable Spanish pop record from—and for—the future.
    — Pitchfork, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The big-screen acting career of Bruce Willis is at once archetypal and unclassifiable.
    — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Does a small-scale human drama now qualify as an eccentric, unclassifiable studio release?
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Children who followed an alternate pattern were four times as likely not to be up to date on their vaccines and those who followed an unclassifiable pattern were over twice as likely not to be up to date.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN, 21 Feb. 2020
  • This unclassifiable mix of absurdist comedy, family drama, and nerve-jangling set pieces is completely its own beast.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Their music is nearly as unclassifiable as their personae, their particular breed of metal imbued with elements of jazz, noise, and psychedelia.
    — Madelyn Dawson, SPIN, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Call it hybrid, genre-bending, unclassifiable—those totemic labels of the contemporary literary zeitgeist fall short.
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Indeed, Clampitt was one of a kind, her work stubbornly and satisfyingly unclassifiable.
    — Malcolm Forbes, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
  • O’Connor wasn’t vilified simply for being erratic or unclassifiable, though that surely didn’t help.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Per logline, the sixth season of Black Mirror is the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The work was too iconoclastic and withholding and unclassifiable for mainstream consumption, always demanding that the audience meet him on his terms, never theirs.
    — Vulture, 27 May 2023
  • Nowadays, Euro-techno and power ballads remain popular, but viewers have also shown a taste for rock, folk-rap, and eccentric, unclassifiable songs.
    — Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2024
  • June Leaf, a beloved artist whose beguiling, unclassifiable works explored the limits of the human body, died on Monday in New York at 94.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2024
  • This unclassifiable novel melds experimental form and film discourse with a terrifying horror story.
    — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In 1965, a new, unclassifiable kind of rock music began bubbling up in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Another 14% followed an unknown or unclassifiable schedule that did not follow a pattern and was not in line with national recommendations.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The films range widely in form—documentary, fiction, hybrid, and unclassifiable—as well as in tone, subject, style, and, for that matter, in originality and inspiration.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Recorded a few years before Bob Dylan detonated a folk explosion in the Village, these songs were also nearly unclassifiable.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Working as a journalist, Mehr also became a unique prose artist, noted for the quietly overpowering style of her fiction, her somewhat unclassifiable essays, and three novels.
    — Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
  • But the fact that Hiddleston’s Loki registers no reaction to seeing his female self does acknowledge that the character has always known this part of his unclassifiable legacy.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 21 June 2021
  • Amaral’s unclassifiable work combines Modernist principles with pre-Columbian art and the vernacular traditions of her country.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Ron and Russell Mael — the brothers who have made up the eccentric, unclassifiable duo for more than 50 years — have played a pivotal, if unheralded, role in multiple musical movements, from glam rock to new wave to synth-pop.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2021
  • Including the four Denisovan specimens (one pinky finger, two adult molars and a baby tooth), the cave has yielded 12 fossils from ancient humans, including teeth, toes, fingers and unclassifiable fragments.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • For the record, Louisville is meeting federal standards for particulates, even though EPA considers the area unclassifiable due to past monitoring issues.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 12 Feb. 2018

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