How to Use unidentifiable in a Sentence

unidentifiable

adjective
  • Doocy asks, as a second unidentifiable voice from out of shot does the same.
    — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Huge amounts of unidentifiable plastic bits, and a whole lot of road sand.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Some clothes, a few toys, unidentifiable stains, and sometimes blood.
    — Cory Stieg, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2024
  • His body was one of the unidentifiable bodies found in Gacy’s crawl space.
    — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The year the letter was sent is unidentifiable from the photos.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 23 Feb. 2022
  • What was left on the tarmac was a plane almost unidentifiable.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Taken on an unidentifiable track, her leash is held tight at the collar by a man who is cut off at the torso.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Behind her -- hunched down, sitting askew and with a hat pulled low -- is an unidentifiable person.
    — OregonLive.com, 10 July 2017
  • His hip is apparently some unidentifiable shade of black and blue.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • While some haven't changed much, others are nearly unidentifiable from their early years.
    — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 11 June 2019
  • The unidentifiable tattoo was placed on his right forearm among a sleeve of other artwork.
    — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • The pond’s seepage was a source of cholera outbreaks, and a certain unidentifiable gloom still hangs around the park that is on the site now.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • Moist, sliced after it's completely done cooking and with no unidentifiable sauce on top.
    — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The cell floor, like all the others, was covered with unidentifiable stains and strewn with grimy gray blankets and bits of clothing.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In the clip, several unidentifiable men can be seen in a boat with their hands in the air and a helicopter overhead.
    — Jonny Hallam and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 6 May 2020
  • Grave markers of veterans are in many cases unidentifiable due to leaves and weeds clinging to the stones.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Zhang, a 42-year-old Uber driver, said he had been knocked out by a stranger at his door with an unidentifiable mist.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
  • Since then, nearly every unidentifiable piece within the star’s wardrobe has been rumored to be a part of the label.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 21 May 2019
  • Tioni might wind her waist alone to the music, or dance in a thong, or grind against the waistband of an unidentifiable male wielding the camera.
    — Reginald Dwayne Betts, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Those remains were unidentifiable and became known as John Doe.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Sea birds — gulls and other unidentifiable species — filled the sky with aggressive dark wings and raucous cawing.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The unidentifiable girl had died from gunshot wounds to her head, authorities later said.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Over 99 percent of the debris is made of plastic—most pieces are unidentifiable fragments.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 16 May 2017
  • Its subject, an unidentifiable creature, is somehow both grotesque and gentle; sleepy-eyed and floppy-eared, its arms are curled up by its face.
    — The Economist, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Members of Qaddafi's inner circle who know where the money is stashed are missing or unidentifiable.
    — Yahia H. Zoubir, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2012
  • Trucked back to Gaza, the bodies are often decomposed and unidentifiable, buried quickly in a mass grave.
    — Julia Frankel and Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The staff could not draw a list of the victims because most were unidentifiable, or did not carry any documentation.
    — Mujib Mashal and Jawad Sukhanyar, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2018
  • From what is visible in the video, the largest living thing behind the wheel of the Endurance is an anemone (species unidentifiable).
    — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Elsewhere in the clip, the Princess of Pop speaks in an unidentifiable accent while talking to the boat’s captain.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Eventually, the two subjects, who are unidentifiable by their faces but seem to be wearing the same clothing, appear back in frame.
    — Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 2 May 2023

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