How to Use unclassifiable in a Sentence

unclassifiable

adjective

• For a novelist on the rise, this unclassifiable book could be viewed as a risky career move.
  — Mark Haskell Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• The result is a book that is riveting and darkly funny and, in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.
  — The New York Times Books Staff, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• In 1965, a new, unclassifiable kind of rock music began bubbling up in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Oct. 2021
• The big-screen acting career of Bruce Willis is at once archetypal and unclassifiable.
  — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2022
• The unclassifiable artist developed in his last decades a method of painting in which tiny changes accumulated to strange new effect.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• And so his nearly unclassifiable and inexhaustible solo act was of a piece with his literary calling.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
• Children who followed an alternate pattern were four times as likely not to be up to date on their vaccines and those who followed an unclassifiable pattern were over twice as likely not to be up to date.
  — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN, 21 Feb. 2020
• The result is a record that is boundary-pushing, unclassifiable yet captivating from start to finish.
  — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
• Supernova is an unclassifiable Spanish pop record from—and for—the future.
  — Pitchfork, 12 Dec. 2023
• Part of that alchemy comes from Winfrey’s strange, unclassifiable celebrity.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
• Per logline, the sixth season of Black Mirror is the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
• Ron and Russell Mael — the brothers who have made up the eccentric, unclassifiable duo for more than 50 years — have played a pivotal, if unheralded, role in multiple musical movements, from glam rock to new wave to synth-pop.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2021
• Who better to trade banter about gaping vaginas, the unclassifiable dampness of one’s second-trimester nether regions, the lack-of-lactation blues, and uncontrollable bowel movements in the O.R.?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024
• After all, he’s got a reputation as an unclassifiable innovator to live up to.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Feb. 2023
• One of the most unclassifiable groups to emerge in the era was the multiracial London quartet Skunk Anansie, whose frontwoman Skin brought a confrontational energy to her bandmates’ funky, hard-rock, occasionally avant-garde songs.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2021
• Recorded a few years before Bob Dylan detonated a folk explosion in the Village, these songs were also nearly unclassifiable.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• But the fact that Hiddleston’s Loki registers no reaction to seeing his female self does acknowledge that the character has always known this part of his unclassifiable legacy.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 21 June 2021
• Indeed, Clampitt was one of a kind, her work stubbornly and satisfyingly unclassifiable.
  — Malcolm Forbes, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
• The work was too iconoclastic and withholding and unclassifiable for mainstream consumption, always demanding that the audience meet him on his terms, never theirs.
  — Vulture, 27 May 2023
• The films range widely in form—documentary, fiction, hybrid, and unclassifiable—as well as in tone, subject, style, and, for that matter, in originality and inspiration.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2021
• For the record, Louisville is meeting federal standards for particulates, even though EPA considers the area unclassifiable due to past monitoring issues.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 12 Feb. 2018
• Including the four Denisovan specimens (one pinky finger, two adult molars and a baby tooth), the cave has yielded 12 fossils from ancient humans, including teeth, toes, fingers and unclassifiable fragments.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• O’Connor wasn’t vilified simply for being erratic or unclassifiable, though that surely didn’t help.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2022
• Another 14% followed an unknown or unclassifiable schedule that did not follow a pattern and was not in line with national recommendations.
  — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN, 21 Feb. 2020
• Sorey, a remarkable and unclassifiable figure in contemporary American music, first established himself as an avant-garde-leaning jazz drummer and has more recently built up a compelling portfolio of works for classical ensembles.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
• This unclassifiable novel melds experimental form and film discourse with a terrifying horror story.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Somehow taking place simultaneously both in 1992 and the present day, the confrontationally unclassifiable Spanish-Swiss co-production blurs lines between documentary and fiction categories, and also deploys some arresting stylistic devices.
  — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2020
• The concerts Wright has presented have showcased everything from contemporary classical, outside-the-box jazz and electronica to entirely improvised music and an altogether unclassifiable amalgamation of styles.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2021
• Steve McQueen's boldly unclassifiable five-part investigation into Black history couldn't compete with superheroes.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 13 July 2021
• In other words, Centaurworld remains wonderfully unclassifiable.
  — Jenna Scherer, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024