How to Use uncategorizable in a Sentence

uncategorizable

adjective
  • In truth, Barthelme, who died in 1989, at fifty-eight, from throat cancer, is an uncategorizable writer.
    Susan Choi, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
  • In the twisty, uncategorizable Black Bear, the actor sheds any semblance of her former April Ludgate persona for her most thrillingly loose performance to date.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Or play it safer with the uncategorizable and (mostly) apolitical Can Xue?
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2021
  • What ensues is one of the strangest and most influential shows ever to air on network television, uncategorizable, surreal in the truest sense of the world, and definitely not a movie.
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 28 May 2020
  • Small distilleries like Empirical Spirits are working on uncategorizable drinks made of stuff like plum pits, for the resilient quaff of tomorrow.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 2 Aug. 2021
  • In the past decade, Ishibashi has quietly become one of Japan’s more dependable yet uncategorizable musical figures.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Evans nails a profile of a seemingly uncategorizable person by exploring her resistance to categories and generalizations, which makes Evans more than just a writer, but a thinker.
    Longreads, 3 Oct. 2017
  • As Holmberg muses, the uncategorizable quality of Tsurita’s manga may partially account for how little has been written about her.
    Gabrielle Bellot, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2020
  • But plenty of the program dwells in SXSW’s categorically uncategorizable sweet spot.
    Andrew Barker, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Suzanne Bocanegra, an adventurous visual artist who has been branching out into other disciplines, has been working in recent years on a series of artist lectures that are uncategorizable performance pieces.
    Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The intense scrutiny of her image and the rush to categorize this almost deliberately uncategorizable persona yielded years of ridiculous conversations.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Balenciaga debuted a similar style on their Spring 2017 runway, even going one step further and creating a style that turned into actual seamless stiletto heels, making them completely uncategorizable, but also totally awesome.
    Avery Matera, Teen Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
  • David Byrne’s hit musical/concert/uncategorizable experiment will play a return Broadway engagement starting September 17.
    Lee Seymour, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • This gives phantasmagoric shape to Carson’s characteristically uncategorizable translation.
    The New Yorker, 14 June 2021

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