How to Use unplaceable in a Sentence

unplaceable

adjective

• The scene and its sound were influenced by the unplaceable Swedish genius Yung Lean.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ, 28 Jan. 2018
• She is given to folksy expressions and speaks with an unplaceable twang.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• The start of spring has an unmistakable, yet unplaceable smell.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2020
• Surrounding Merkel and Trump are a slew of other leaders, each with an unplaceable gaze.
  — Amy B Wang, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2018
• Instead, opt for one that is unplaceable and doesn’t fall into a specific look.
  — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 17 Aug. 2018
• Elsewhere, the bold and unplaceable bronze lamps turn out to have been commissioned by Fribourg, custom made for the house by the French sculptor Otto Freed.
  — Guy Trebay, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2021
• Among the exceptions are Elizabeth Strout’s fictions and the unplaceable work of Annie Ernaux.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• There are so many emergencies, so many disasters both past and present and probably future, that the images feel both familiar and unplaceable.
  — Darryl Ratcliff, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2020
• He is replaced by a choleric, more professional West Indian, a lean black man with a faint, unplaceable accent.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• What starts as one of those rare, unplaceable, maybe-satire, maybe-camp, high-wire pop confections morphs into a fairly straightforward biopic about a beloved superstar that seems overly wary of pissing off a living idol.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2022
• Yazbeck executes choreographer Michelle Dorrance’s tap sequences with the requisite suaveness (even if his on-and-off British accent is unplaceable).
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
• In some television appearances, Ivanka seems to present a simulacrum of herself — a for-public-consumption version that is at once both poised and guarded, complete with a breathy, unplaceable accent.
  — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Mar. 2018
• In some television appearances, Ivanka seems to present a simulacrum of herself - a for-public-consumption version that is at once both poised and guarded, complete with a breathy, unplaceable accent.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Artists were photographed wearing banker suits and smoking Montecristos, strove to be featured in ads for Absolut Vodka, caroused with real estate magnates and deep-pocketed promoters with unplaceable accents.
  — Luc Sante, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
• Over the last two decades, urban architecture has become increasingly unplaceable.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 2 May 2018
• Great lighting onstage has an unplaceable emotional effect.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• My First Film mastermind Zia Anger winds these elements into something altogether unplaceable and surreal.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024