How to Use inarticulate in a Sentence

inarticulate

adjective

• I was almost inarticulate with rage.
• He's smart, but somewhat inarticulate.
• Even the numbly inarticulate James records thoughts that trans readers might have had.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• At several points, four of the younger musicians sit in the living room behind a stack of LPs from the era and talk about the music on them with inarticulate enthusiasm.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• My comments were the inarticulate reflection of long soul searching.
  — Leah Asmelash and Melissa Alonso, CNN, 12 Mar. 2021
• In his quirky inarticulate way, Squires must be a great communicator.
  — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2020
• Trump will continue to walk the line between dishonest, uninformed, and inarticulate in a way that keeps people guessing.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018
• His hardboiled tone is one limitation: many readers will only be so interested in the fates of grungy, inarticulate men named Mac.
  — Matt Hanson, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2019
• The film, which shares Robbie's inarticulate restlessness, doesn't sit comfortably in the road-movie template despite hitting many of its dramatic beats.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
• The painfully inarticulate pol who delivered some of the most eloquent paeans to liberalism in memory.
  — Jackie Calmes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Shelley's nuances are profound, but they're lost in the simplified tale of an inarticulate monster, finally burned by villagers.
  — Steve Haycox, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018
• And then there’s Hedlund’s distractingly odd performance, one that pushes his character from inarticulate to the precipice of slow-witted.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Moreover, Ramsay is aided enormously by the fact that Joe is played by a bearded and beefy Joaquin Phoenix, one of the few actors one can imagine bringing the character’s inarticulate suffering largely to life.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2018
• More broadly though, while the acronym is an inarticulate representation of the issues at hand, companies will likely remain at the forefront of these issues.
  — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2022
• Clothing is an eloquent form of communication for the inarticulate.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2020
• Hale communicates his character in large part through a masterful array of inarticulate sounds.
  — Sarah Marshall, New Republic, 18 May 2017
• When television children were still speaking in zingers, these guys were defiantly inarticulate.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• What follows is a superb comic scene pitting Hannah’s verbally open vulnerability and desire to please — up to a point — in conflict with Adam’s inarticulate desire that is unconcerned with her needs.
  — Teddy Wayne, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2016
• The multiracial Californian turned Floridian also looks and sounds like America would like to look and sound (in contrast to the pasty and inarticulate incumbent) if America were an action figure.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2018
• There are shades of Being There in the elevation of inarticulate Herschel to national folk-hero status, with his passion and unfiltered truth drawing support from free-speech advocates, who even start ruminating on a possible political future.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2020
• Young, ingenuous, and often inarticulate, the fledgling directors, screenwriters, producers and others pour through the school’s gate and undergo a daunting series of tests, auditions, and interviews with professionals that goes on for several days.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• Reagan is described as intellectually incurious, inarticulate, not deeply read, acting from instinct rather than reflection.
  — Jules Freedman, Cincinnati.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• More than any coherent political theory, the libertarian revival draws on inarticulate but powerful currents of anti-authoritarianism in American culture.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 2 Feb. 2022
• I was almost inarticulate with rage.
• He's smart, but somewhat inarticulate.
• Even the numbly inarticulate James records thoughts that trans readers might have had.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• At several points, four of the younger musicians sit in the living room behind a stack of LPs from the era and talk about the music on them with inarticulate enthusiasm.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• My comments were the inarticulate reflection of long soul searching.
  — Leah Asmelash and Melissa Alonso, CNN, 12 Mar. 2021
• In his quirky inarticulate way, Squires must be a great communicator.
  — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2020
• Trump will continue to walk the line between dishonest, uninformed, and inarticulate in a way that keeps people guessing.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018

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