How to Use undefinable in a Sentence

undefinable

adjective
  • There’s one full of hair, a play on the undefinable ick one feels when one spots a stray hair in the sink or on the shower wall.
    — Nora Taylor, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2024
  • And that undefinable thing that makes live shows so impactful.
    — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2021
  • The best bars are full of an undefinable spirit, something that draws people in and convinces them to linger.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The best bars have something undefinable.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Miryang is neither a respite for Shin-ae nor an escape, but rather some undefinable cross between the two.
    — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • But something in him, that undefinable human spirit, keeps him going.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • Those phrases defined the undefinable, which could be why goblin mode went mainstream, Syrett said.
    — NBC News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • And much like the works on display, attendees dared to be visually undefinable.
    — Tyler Matthew Oyer feb. 27, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe, the film suggests, being alive simply means being undefinable.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The Marquesas have always had this sort of undefinable allure.
    — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Over the course of the round, there would be shouts and screams and collective outcries that didn’t quite rise to the level of roars, but inched up to whatever line defines such undefinable things.
    — Tim Layden, SI.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • This is about how complex family is, and how mysterious and kind of undefinable the human experience is.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2020
  • But the specifics of those politics continue to remain singular and often undefinable.
    — Jesse Jarnow, WIRED, 5 June 2018
  • And indeed, 40 years is a long trend for something as perennially mutable, and undefinable, as pop music.
    — Dj Louie Xiv, Vanities, 22 June 2018
  • Perhaps more than any other American player of the last decade, Eubanks has that undefinable star quality that draws fans in.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • Sports cars are famously undefinable, encompassing a broad array of roadsters, four-door cars, coupes, grand tourers, supercars, and even some straight-up race cars.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond accolades and numbers, though, there are undefinable and immeasurable traits.
    — Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The restaurants here define this undefinable cuisine–a mash-up of immigrant cuisines, both recent and ancient—and make Honolulu still my favorite place to eat.
    — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Their undefinable, worldly taste is also reflected in the Alfallah sisters’ wardrobe.
    — Jonathan Borge, InStyle, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Hollywood has operated for decades off this strange, undefinable process, in which millions of creative decisions pass through a single person, for better or for worse.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Chocolate, salted caramel, chile — and then something darker, turfier, almost bitter, undefinable.
    — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • This raises the question of following the law’s letter versus its spirit, whether the undefinable quality of a film supersedes the superficial criteria placed on it.
    — Charles Bramesco, Vox, 18 July 2018
  • The other, a manic, undefinable mash-up of genres and tonal values, populated by a mostly Asian cast playing versions of their characters in a rapidly expanding multiverse.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The show is actually undefinable—an indelible and engagingly weird universe that seemed to emerge fully formed from the minds of co-creators (and brothers) Donald and Stephen Glover.
    — Janice Williams, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The answer to that pursuit can be found only in something given little attention in laboratories, classrooms and battlefields — the undefinable, unscientific realm of art.
    — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • What Cora spoke to was the acknowledgement of a championship vibe, that undefinable, somewhat indescribable mix of confidence and experience (and perhaps a little bit of arrogance) that tells the players their time is now.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • An extraordinary, undefinable talent & unique human-being-mensch.
    — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • But there's an undefinable spookiness to him as well, recently channeled in Bones and All, and sure to be tapped for this update of Gene Wilder's blink-free 1971 portrayal of the candy king.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2022
  • These sales trends mean less than zero to the realm of natural wine—an amorphous, rather intentionally undefinable category that has been woefully underserved by business reporting and sales trends, despite its growing cultural primacy.
    — Jordan Michelman, Bon Appétit, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Biden’s new definition excludes congressional Republicans and somehow includes undefinable Republican support outside the Beltway.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2021

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