How to Use undetectable in a Sentence

undetectable

adjective
  • Tests found the amount of dust in the air inside the fire station was undetectable.
    Anna Beahm | Abeahm@al.com, al.com, 19 July 2019
  • For years, the changes have been slow and almost undetectable.
    Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2018
  • More:We’re in the ‘undetectable era’ of plastic surgery.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The soft green tint is undetectable and helps even out redness.
    Allure Editors, Allure, 1 Dec. 2024
  • In the open ocean, tsunami waves can be small and may even be undetectable by a boat at the surface.
    Sally Warner, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The Hatch chiles and cheese sauce were almost undetectable though.
    Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Soto said the trauma Ching described would not have healed in that time to the point that the injury was undetectable.
    Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • On flat ground, the motor’s boost can be undetectable, but on a steep hill, the help can make a big difference.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The same undetectable backdoor works on the $200 Ledger Blue, which is billed as a higher-end device.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The gear ratios seem just right, and boost lag is almost undetectable.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 7 May 2023
  • Blend with a brush or sponge until undetectable for skin that appears smooth, soft, and blurred.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The result was so effective that the message of the bombers was undetectable in pictures in newsprint.
    Randal Doane, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • While such a faint signal would normally be undetectable, that should not be the case in voids.
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 8 June 2022
  • At first, these compounds may be undetectable by taste or smell.
    Eric Asimov, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The noise produced by some of the higher-end models is nearly undetectable to our ears.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Seeing it for the first time, the effect is soothing and layered, the hard graft behind it undetectable.
    Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2021
  • A year later, 16 patients were alive and the cancer was still undetectable.
    NBC News, 16 Apr. 2018
  • And even if the ship itself could be made completely undetectable, its wake might still give it away.
    Abe Dane, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
  • To the naked eye, a massive glacier moving 100 feet is almost undetectable.
    Stefanie Ellis, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The wires were also undetectable when lying on the bed, according to our tester.
    Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The first was that vodka was (allegedly) undetectable on your breath, the end-to-end encryption of its time.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Rodis wants both to shield sensitive body parts and to make their contours undetectable.
    Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • What had been obvious to his coach had been undetectable to his classmates.
    Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Indeed, Pinot Noir was not only near-undetectable in terms of taste but also on the label.
    Lettie Teague, WSJ, 25 June 2019
  • Newcomb Hollow beach now has a sensor, but a shark without a tag is undetectable to it.
    Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Christopher Payne/Esto The modern race to build undetectable submarines dates from the 1960s.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The hibiscus is undetectable, but the ginger is assertive and tasty.
    Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 13 July 2019
  • The trouble is that much of the trail of Anna Harvey’s influence is undetectable.
    Sarah Mower, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2018
  • So, what would happen if humans were undetectable by this pest?
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • This initial test did not generate all of life’s prerequisites, but Meng notes that other important compounds might have been present at undetectable levels.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2025

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