How to Use indefinable in a Sentence

indefinable

adjective

• He has an indefinable quality that draws people to him.
• Wash it down with the indefinable cherry spice of a frosty Dr Pepper shake ($3.49).
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• The images have the feel of something pulled from someone else’s camera, from some indefinable time in the past.
  — Sophie Haigney, New York Times, 19 May 2021
• But sometimes a dish just has something indefinable, a quality that lights up the mouth with pure pleasure.
  — Stephanie Schorow, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• What this leaves us with is an almost indefinable style, not really seen on the Continent.
  — Vogue, 14 Sep. 2017
• The Barclay Brass filled the church with its own indefinable power that night, more austere than Rush but no less eccentric or exploratory.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
• The complexity of the metaverse, its indefinable nature, means more pathways to attack and spread.
  — Rob Mason, Forbes, 20 May 2022
• The question then remains: How did fine become indefinable?
  — Joseph Lezza, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023
• For Romero, the Night of the Living Dead zombies represented 1,001 indefinable anxieties tearing at the world.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 July 2017
• Juventus' key talking point is rather murky and indefinable.
  — SI.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• The movie's unvarnished exploration of motherhood in all its messy, indefinable facets struck a chord even for cast members who haven't yet had that experience themselves.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• Two-hundred-and-fifty years later, Bellini depicted him in a state of ecstatic transport, his arms open to receive an indefinable radiance that all but overwhelms him.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• His working-class Catholic family was not 10 miles down the road, but R. had accrued a certain indefinable sophistication from his travels.
  — Hannah Selinger, Bon Appétit, 2 July 2021
• While there is data to support the importance of culture, the phenomenon itself is intangible, and the goal at my own company became: to define the indefinable.
  — Gatis Dukurs, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• His paintings are filled with people laboring away at confounding tasks, wearing outfits that vaguely suggest uniforms, in the midst of composite, indefinable cityscapes.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2020
• Try to grasp the mystery of the furry mythical creature in Firelei Báez’s ultra-realist rendering, and try to define the indefinable angst in Heidi Hahn’s ghostly expressionist painting.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 13 Oct. 2020
• Between the dream and reality stands a world of challenges, from marketing and distribution of Murphy’s record to hitting that sweet, indefinable spot in pop-culture where art and socially conscious activism meet.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 27 Sep. 2019
• Based on a podcast of the same name, the series employs a shifting visual style and jarring overhead shots, all of which amplify the indefinable sense of menace in this impeccably modern facility filled with vast empty spaces.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
• There's a sort of unquantifiable, indefinable quality that just makes a good celebration.
  — SI.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• It’s about embracing the nuances of sexuality and gender and defining ourselves as indefinable.
  — Rebecca Woolf, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021
• Let Johns’s sensual, strange, almost indefinable images and sculptures relight your visual-cerebral wick.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2021
• The otherworldly elements that Lynch layered in—an indefinable air of mystery, a surreal quality that evoked swooning, bittersweet loss—were among the factors that made the original Twin Peaks a ratings and pop-culture sensation.
  — The Editors, The Atlantic, 13 May 2017
• Managing director is one of those almost indefinable positions that should be nearly invisible to patrons, said Ward.
  — David Lyman, The Enquirer, 25 Sep. 2020
• The communities that Tyler, now 76, profiles share an indefinable quality that might be described as their Bawlamer-ness; yet each also is strikingly individual and described in meticulous detail.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2018
• Christie’s small, middle-class white communities are rife with suspicion, infidelity, unease, and a sort of indefinable evil that permeates almost everybody and everything.
  — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2022
• Like Harper, Greene has the requisite combination of generational talent, preternatural charisma and indefinable star power to become an iconic player of his era.
  — Dave Sheinin, courant.com, 14 June 2017
• Her small, local, middle-class white communities are rife with suspicion, infidelity, unease, and a sort of indefinable evil that permeates almost everybody and everything.
  — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2022
• Each image simultaneously evokes feelings of sweeping grandeur and indefinable yearning.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• The Coens are true American classics, indefinable and incomparable.
  — Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• Pain is a complex, sometimes indefinable experience, one that can’t be easily evaluated on a typical postpartum exam, especially in a medical office that is expected to cycle patients through in 15 minutes.
  — Laura Beil, Cosmopolitan, 18 July 2016

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024