How to Use unplaceable in a Sentence

unplaceable

adjective
  • She is given to folksy expressions and speaks with an unplaceable twang.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The start of spring has an unmistakable, yet unplaceable smell.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Instead, opt for one that is unplaceable and doesn’t fall into a specific look.
    — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The scene and its sound were influenced by the unplaceable Swedish genius Yung Lean.
    — John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ, 28 Jan. 2018
  • There are so many emergencies, so many disasters both past and present and probably future, that the images feel both familiar and unplaceable.
    — Darryl Ratcliff, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • He is replaced by a choleric, more professional West Indian, a lean black man with a faint, unplaceable accent.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • Over the last two decades, urban architecture has become increasingly unplaceable.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 2 May 2018
  • What starts as one of those rare, unplaceable, maybe-satire, maybe-camp, high-wire pop confections morphs into a fairly straightforward biopic about a beloved superstar that seems overly wary of pissing off a living idol.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Elsewhere, the bold and unplaceable bronze lamps turn out to have been commissioned by Fribourg, custom made for the house by the French sculptor Otto Freed.
    — Guy Trebay, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Among the exceptions are Elizabeth Strout’s fictions and the unplaceable work of Annie Ernaux.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • In some television appearances, Ivanka seems to present a simulacrum of herself - a for-public-consumption version that is at once both poised and guarded, complete with a breathy, unplaceable accent.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • In some television appearances, Ivanka seems to present a simulacrum of herself — a for-public-consumption version that is at once both poised and guarded, complete with a breathy, unplaceable accent.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Yazbeck executes choreographer Michelle Dorrance’s tap sequences with the requisite suaveness (even if his on-and-off British accent is unplaceable).
    — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • My First Film mastermind Zia Anger winds these elements into something altogether unplaceable and surreal.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019

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