How to Use unpronounceable in a Sentence

unpronounceable

adjective
  • Have your partner change or add at least three letters to make the name unpronounceable.
    — Ali Solomon, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The unpronounceable sequence caused both devices to remain silent even while the apps were still running.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2019
  • That unpronounceable thing is the actually the name for the modern shark.
    — Mary Mooney, OregonLive.com, 14 July 2017
  • Plus, quinoa and amaranth (two of-the-moment ancient grains) are downright unpronounceable for some.
    — Jaclyn London, Ms, Rd, Cdn, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Plus, there are often tons of harsh (and unpronounceable) chemicals in those products.
    — Ariel Scotti, Health.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Does the answer to finding a secure password lie in naming your pet a wacky, possibly unpronounceable name?
    — Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY, 30 May 2017
  • On the main stage, representatives from companies with unpronounceable names riled up the crowds.
    — Morgen Peck, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Kasich has shot down the speculation, telling Meet the Press that the unity ticket would be unpronounceable.
    — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The garden will be in its spring glory, and there will be plenty of docents on hand to identify the incredibly cool plants with unpronounceable names from far corners of the world.
    — Ciscoe Morris, The Seattle Times, 19 Apr. 2017
  • In the end, the impossibly snaky rivers, the misbehaving mountains, and the unpronounceable names are not the most important part of the fantasy map.
    — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Out of a welter of sketchy bulletins, counter-claims and unpronounceable names flowing from Poland, the broad outlines of Germany’s assault began to take shape.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The unpronounceable Convenrt, for instance, is in Colgate toothpaste’s classic white-on-red script.
    — Patricia Laya, Bloomberg.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The guidance has changed over the years, from simple, memorizable passwords to unpronounceable strings of characters customized for each account, and stored in password managers.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Even with the exemption, Chinese export volumes for unpronounceable but irreplaceable things like yttrium and dysprosium are still way down, and prices are way up.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 14 May 2026
  • Others have argued that ending nouns and adjectives with an X instead of an O or A makes the language practically unpronounceable.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Any products with five or six unpronounceable additives, artificial sweeteners, and various gums and thickeners don’t align well with clean living values.
    — William Jones, Ascend Agency, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Only the incredibly florid, practically unpronounceable names have changed.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2023
  • There's exploding plumbing, too, unleashing rivers of raw sewage, and a slew of desperate neighbors with unpronounceable foreign-sounding names who come a-knocking, looking for refuge from the disaster.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Password manager apps offer a simple way to create and keep track of passwords by storing them in the cloud, essentially requiring you to remember one master password instead of dozens of long and unpronounceable ones.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The virtually unpronounceable penalty amounts to $20 decillion — or around $20 billion trillion trillion.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • At Semma, names of dishes, however unpronounceable to unfamiliar audiences, like uzhavar santhai poriyal (a beet-and-squash stir-fry) or muyal pirattal (rabbit leg), are left untouched.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In this age of speed and content almost forced into our brains, only the most devoted readers look beyond familiar names to discover new international voices, often hidden behind unpronounceable names.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The float is meant to illustrate the backstories of the nine Muses, the Greek demigoddesses in charge of art, music, literature, theater and unpronounceable Uptown streets.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Antetokounmpo's name, which has gone from unpronounceable to household status, is entrenched in the MVP conversation.
    — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2018
  • REEs are those metals with unpronounceable names that are used in the manufacture of advanced technologies, including electric vehicles, wind turbines and missile guidance systems.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • But with the recent explosion of products in the category, finding a quality powder can be a mind-numbing experience full of confusing acronyms, unpronounceable ingredients, and suspicious health claims.
    — Jenny McCoy, Glamour, 8 July 2024
  • Big Agriculture — or Big Ag, the consolidation of farming into corporations — has been forced, at the very least, to adopt the appearance of making food less unpronounceable, less damaging to our health, and more local.
    — Caty Enders, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • About 70 percent of consumers say that using baby products free of allergens and unpronounceable ingredients is very important to them, according to an AlixPartners survey.
    — Bloomberg.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The music world has seen countless reinventions, rehabilitations, transformations and image overhauls, but there’s never been anything quite like Prince changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol on his 35th birthday, 30 years ago today.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 7 June 2023
  • One main category of HER2 therapies is monoclonal antibodies (which come with unpronounceable names like pertuzumab, trastuzumab, and margetuximab).
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 4 Dec. 2023

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