How to Use inexpressible in a Sentence
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Few people, even once in their lives, dare to make the inexpressible real.
—Tove Ditlevsen, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
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The mortal dismay of those of them who are still alive at the elevation of Donald Trump is inexpressible.
—Conrad Black, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
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Open your eyes, feel your senses and marvel at the inexpressible beauty in each corner without any tourists.
—Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
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What stands out is the way that Fastvold’s film renders the furtive, the inexpressible, the typically-repressed in primary color.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2021
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Shams, gruff and guileless, badgered Rumi into risking a more vulnerable approach to the concealed and inexpressible—that is, the essence of God and of love.
—Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
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This is not the sound of irony or indifference but of bafflement in the face of inexpressible experience.
—Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
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At its height, MacDonald’s writing captures the inexpressible rhythm of being.
—Matt Damsker, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2020
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Amanda Gorman captured the country's inexpressible thoughts and mood by beautifully crafting inspiring words that touched the nation and viewers all over the world.
—Dr. Richard Osibanjo, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
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There is nothing inexpressible about Adrienne and Matteo.
—Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2020
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The narrative uses native wildflowers and plants to depict the inexpressible.
—Katherine Tulich, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
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Flights of doves, cymbals clanging, inexpressible feelings of relief.
—Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2017
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And doesn’t everybody have that inexpressible need – that impossible want – for something?
—Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 21 Mar. 2018
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Thousands, throats growling and laughing and expressing what had heretofore been inexpressible.
—June Millington, Billboard, 1 June 2017
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This includes what can be expressed and what is inexpressible, what leaders should or should not tell people and the whole inexplicable issue of worthiness and sacrifice for common good.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
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Happiness is unique, inexpressible, a state that exists outside of narrative.
—New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
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During the Vietnam era, according to these studies, these women were full of inexpressible rage against both their absent husbands and the pressures to satisfy their husbands’ emotional needs while endlessly stifling their own.
—Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
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As with many blue-collar workers, his religion is less about doctrinal adherence to faith and morals than solemn and inexpressible sentiments attached to rituals, embedded in a community.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
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The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him.
—Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
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Or the inexpressible joy of comedian Patti Harrison rhapsodizing about loving wine?
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 July 2021
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O'Riordan was capable of articulating seemingly inexpressible emotions, both through her towering cry and her intimate songwriting, resulting in some of the most indelible pop/rock hits of her generation.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2018
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Still, Annihilation’s commitment to older psychoanalytic (and deconstructionist) models for the self and its inexpressible shadows makes this a readily accessible drama of emotion.
—Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2018
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