How to Use indescribable in a Sentence

indescribable

adjective
  • To feel the force of it through your entire body was indescribable.
    Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Even today the image speaks of the indescribable thrill such a dive must have been.
    Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
  • There’s tenants who’ve thrown blood on the wall, all kinds of indescribable things. ...
    Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Nicole Ortiz said the agony of waiting to learn the fate of her sister and nephew was indescribable.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 21 July 2021
  • Seeing them together, the way their faces light up and the love that fills the room, is indescribable.
    Jaclyn Stapp, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2019
  • The agony of the acid hitting my eye is almost indescribable.
    Janine Di Giovanni, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Being exposed to the grief of a stranger is indescribable.
    Author: Shannyn Moore, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Aug. 2017
  • The house at 1809 Carl St. in Fort Worth is almost as unique and indescribable as the owner himself.
    Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2022
  • My first long-distance race had filled me with indescribable joy, peace, and pride.
    Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The joy felt by myself and thousands of others in the stands and across Scotland was … indescribable.
    Peter King, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The burden this placed on my close colleagues and peers is indescribable.
    Danielle Bowie, Fortune, 25 July 2022
  • Ortiz's sister Nicole said the agony of waiting for news of their fate is indescribable.
    Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 4 Aug. 2021
  • That same indescribable sense of bliss is also the perfect inspiration for the first nail art trend of the new decade: cloud nails.
    Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Heck, the pick-six by star linebacker Zaven Collins in double overtime was nowhere near the top of the list of indescribable moments.
    G Smith, NOLA.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • A: There are times in sports when people talk too much, say too many words attempting to describe the indescribable.
    cleveland.com, 18 May 2017
  • With tears down my face, and chills up my spine, the feeling of crossing that finish line was something indescribable.
    Alyssa Antosh, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The fear and uncertainty that come with being a target of the IRGC are indescribable.
    Time, 7 June 2023
  • How enormous and indescribable to be playing for all you!
    Natalia Cano, Billboard, 4 June 2023
  • Lena Andrews: To lose her like this ... its indescribable.
    Michelle Miller, CBS News, 6 May 2023
  • But The Way Back has an indescribable something that’s missing from so many modern movies.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The pain to the family and friends is indescribable, especially when their child is not found.
    NBC News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The most recognizable woman on the planet, one of the most beloved, my mother was simply indescribable, that was the plain truth.
    Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • A new sci-fi epic of fantastic planets, indescribable aliens, and thrilling adventure is coming to the U.S. this month—and there's not a lightsaber in sight.
    John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2017
  • Lifting again a title at home, with my people and my club… is indescribable.
    Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Calder was aiming to grasp the ungraspable, to describe the indescribable.
    Jed Perl, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • And his voice—almost indescribable: a bracing, off-dry white whine.
    Wesley Stace, WSJ, 14 June 2018
  • Cox said he’s always felt the priest killed a piece of him — some indescribable but vital piece — that he’s been trying to reclaim ever since.
    Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2022
  • After an indescribable two weeks my other half is heading back across the pond.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 29 May 2018
  • Six families are currently contending with the indescribable burden of grief as a result of the loss of a loved one.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The task of crafting an intellectual definition of love — a feeling so indescribable and transcendent that empires have crumbled and countless lives have blown up just because humans craved a little more of it — is, by definition, an impossible task.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 5 July 2024

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