How to Use unspeakable in a Sentence

unspeakable

adjective
  • The mood was of unspeakable sadness and grief.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And in the void that was left, unspeakable grief, mind-numbing shock, that comes in waves.
    — Alejandra Matos, Washington Post, 10 June 2017
  • Saying what for so long had been something that was very unspeakable to me.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Jimmy’s dad hopes that something good can come out of the unspeakable loss.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Even in the face of unspeakable heartache, its limbs reach outward and upward.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • When once-unspeakable truths break through and are finally said aloud, that is a win.
    — Marcus Anthony Hunter, Time, 19 June 2026
  • That’s when the visions would end, the brain editing out the unspeakable parts.
    — New York Times, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Yes — people owned slaves, and yes, that is an unspeakable horror.
    — Katherine Timpf, National Review, 10 July 2019
  • He has, of course, been tortured, in the usual, unspeakable hell.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The weight of the unsaid and the unspeakable, the lost and the left out, hangs over the poem’s head.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The murder of so fine a public servant has been an unspeakable agony for this city.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Strength is the voice of community and love in the face of the unspeakable.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2017
  • With a mystery that keeps the audience on their toes with an unspeakable twist.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2 May 2025
  • Their happy news comes more than two years after an unspeakable tragedy for the parents.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Life is hard and messy and full of unspeakable horrors and the wildest, most ordinary joys.
    — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 21 May 2018
  • There seemed to be a sense of rising unspeakable dangers to children.
    — Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • New Yorkers have seen all kinds of unspeakable things in the city's waters.
    — WSJ, 12 July 2022
  • The promise of a saner day, one cleansed and informed by unspeakable tragedy.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2021
  • And just about everything unspeakable Ed does can, in this telling, be traced back to her.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The film has been criticized for making light of unspeakable crimes.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2020
  • She’s done some unspeakable things but also had the same level of trauma happen to her.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The families of the children have shared tributes in the wake of this unspeakable tragedy.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024
  • The footage made clear that the deaths were horrific and the suffering unspeakable.
    — Marc Fisher and Naomi Nix, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • And there were people in that room – first of all, of tremendous grief, unspeakable frustration and anger.
    — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • On the ghost floor, the quiet had dimension and weight, an unspeakable presence.
    — Kate Walbert, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • This was a composer tasked with saying the unsayable against the unspeakable.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • These Winter Street folk had made their way north, away from unspeakable horrors in their states of birth.
    — Susanna Ashton, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
  • This was the unspeakable way that people sometimes died in a wildfire, roasting from the inside out.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
  • What happens when the unspeakable happens?
    — The Know, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Three hundred pages of unspeakable horror.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2026

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