How to Use indistinct in a Sentence
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But the man’s face is indistinct, and the woman’s back is to the camera.
—National Geographic, 8 July 2017
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The three are indistinct, as are so many of the people in Whistler’s scenes of urban life.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
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The show’s premise, like its title, is both indistinct and somewhat trite.
—Judy Berman, Time, 18 Mar. 2022
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Their visages are indistinct and can be nothing more than ovals of blotchy paint.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
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The video rearview system worked well in daylight but was predictably grainy and indistinct at night.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2020
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Mansel had long been aware that the sharp outlines of life and time and daily event were becoming blurred and indistinct for him….
—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020
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The thing that flummoxes the steering is cruising straight at highway speeds, where the feel is dull and indistinct.
—Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 25 Oct. 2021
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But the face on Zoom is not the strangely ageless one known to viewers, as indistinct at its edges as the features of an infant.
—Karl Vick, Time, 4 June 2020
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Now this indistinct mass of person turned, unlocked himself from Thomas, and stood over me.
—Andrew Martin, The Atlantic, 12 June 2020
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The indistinct voice of someone whose mouth is hidden behind his hand.
—Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
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The twins’ words are drawn out into indistinct cries for a relationship that has forked with time.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 10 Dec. 2020
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There was a snapshot of the boy, his face indistinct in the engraving dots, a blond eighteen-year-old sitting on a rock and smiling.
—Joan Didion, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
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The top of the Washington Monument appeared to be swallowed by the night’s mist, and the statue atop the Capitol Dome was indistinct at best.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2019
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The Knicks have traveled a different road, as gravel turns to dirt turns to a hazily indistinct foot path.
—Michael Powell, New York Times, 4 May 2018
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Once the door closes, all that's discernible outside is an indistinct hum.
—William Thornton, AL.com, 9 Aug. 2017
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The blurry video shows a woman holding a lighter to an indistinct object on a Brooklyn street.
—NBC News, 6 June 2020
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But unlike dry and sandy Tatooine, this planet's surface is gassy and indistinct.
—Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
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The landscape, blanketed by indistinct miles of mossy trees, gives way, fading to a tight frame of Gary Duncan.
—Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
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In the gaping maw of the 5,000-seat Theater at Madison Square Garden, this big top feels little — and a little indistinct.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
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The dispatcher asked if anyone was with him, and Hummel said his sons, ages 10 and 9, were there, their voices indistinct in the background.
—Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, 27 June 2017
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Now, the crew has been reduced to wondering aloud if a three-top can become a four-top at an airy yet indistinct restaurant.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2022
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The breeze is gentle, carrying the indistinct sounds of children playing somewhere down the beach.
—Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2022
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Wilderness medicine was fuzzily indistinct from the kind of at-home first aid formalized by the Red Cross in the early 20th century.
—Matt Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2017
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The No Spot Twins were indistinct in the first days — a close pair of orange beltons (orange ticking, but no patches) that slept and fed together.
—Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
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Another, of indistinct origin, asked their teacher not to give them a lot of homework.
—Washington Post, 8 July 2018
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The flurries at the beginning of the finale, for example, sounded like indistinct rumblings on the bass.
—Dallas News, 4 June 2022
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But her character remains as indistinct to him as the figures on Warlight’s cover.
—Andrew Lanham, The New Republic, 8 June 2018
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This tiny but critical moment was indistinct in the current cut, because Riley ran out of time on the day of filming and had to shoot the sequence elsewhere.
—Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 22 May 2018
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His car will have to contend with indistinct grass curbs and protective hay bales that might move if someone else crashes into them or they get kicked by the crowd.
—Jack Stewart, WIRED, 7 July 2018
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An official can make a decision if the impact on their interests is indistinct from the impacts on the public.
—Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
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