How to Use undefinable in a Sentence

undefinable

adjective

• Over the course of the round, there would be shouts and screams and collective outcries that didn’t quite rise to the level of roars, but inched up to whatever line defines such undefinable things.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• And that undefinable thing that makes live shows so impactful.
  — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2021
• Those phrases defined the undefinable, which could be why goblin mode went mainstream, Syrett said.
  — NBC News, 2 Apr. 2022
• But there's an undefinable spookiness to him as well, recently channeled in Bones and All, and sure to be tapped for this update of Gene Wilder's blink-free 1971 portrayal of the candy king.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• The Marquesas have always had this sort of undefinable allure.
  — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
• The restaurants here define this undefinable cuisine–a mash-up of immigrant cuisines, both recent and ancient—and make Honolulu still my favorite place to eat.
  — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2020
• As a younger generation favors the Internet over cable, it’s given rise to a class of celebrity unknown and undefinable to many over a certain age.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• But something in him, that undefinable human spirit, keeps him going.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
• Maybe, the film suggests, being alive simply means being undefinable.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• And indeed, 40 years is a long trend for something as perennially mutable, and undefinable, as pop music.
  — Dj Louie Xiv, Vanities, 22 June 2018
• The show is actually undefinable—an indelible and engagingly weird universe that seemed to emerge fully formed from the minds of co-creators (and brothers) Donald and Stephen Glover.
  — Janice Williams, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2018
• Nonetheless, his life is an example of an enduring truth: American food, that undefinable thing, is best represented by the people who cook it and love it.
  — Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2021
• This is about how complex family is, and how mysterious and kind of undefinable the human experience is.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• That one tiny piece of undefinable whatever it might be provides a layer of subjectivity.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2020
• Hollywood has operated for decades off this strange, undefinable process, in which millions of creative decisions pass through a single person, for better or for worse.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2020
• But the specifics of those politics continue to remain singular and often undefinable.
  — Jesse Jarnow, WIRED, 5 June 2018
• This raises the question of following the law’s letter versus its spirit, whether the undefinable quality of a film supersedes the superficial criteria placed on it.
  — Charles Bramesco, Vox, 18 July 2018
• What Cora spoke to was the acknowledgement of a championship vibe, that undefinable, somewhat indescribable mix of confidence and experience (and perhaps a little bit of arrogance) that tells the players their time is now.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• The other, a manic, undefinable mash-up of genres and tonal values, populated by a mostly Asian cast playing versions of their characters in a rapidly expanding multiverse.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
• Beyond accolades and numbers, though, there are undefinable and immeasurable traits.
  — Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2020
• Chocolate, salted caramel, chile — and then something darker, turfier, almost bitter, undefinable.
  — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• These sales trends mean less than zero to the realm of natural wine—an amorphous, rather intentionally undefinable category that has been woefully underserved by business reporting and sales trends, despite its growing cultural primacy.
  — Jordan Michelman, Bon Appétit, 19 Oct. 2022
• This interest in the tangible world directly contrasts Taurus’ opposite sign’s passions: Scorpio is associated with mystery, transcendence, and undefinable emotions.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 30 Oct. 2017
• An extraordinary, undefinable talent & unique human-being-mensch.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 30 June 2023
• Biden’s new definition excludes congressional Republicans and somehow includes undefinable Republican support outside the Beltway.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024