How to Use unrecognizable in a Sentence

unrecognizable

adjective
  • More than half on the road -- a place where the Cavs have been strikingly unrecognizable.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
  • For too long, he was forced to endure their assault, and by the time the tram was working again, his face was a swollen, near-unrecognizable mass of bites.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • On Monday in Pompano Beach a man was hit and killed, and his truck was left unrecognizable.
    CBS News, 9 May 2022
  • For them, the dream of owning a home here is becoming more remote by the day, and parts of their city have grown unrecognizable.
    Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • And then she was beaten and bludgeoned to the point that her face was unrecognizable to her family and to her friends.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This year, the hosts may be just as unrecognizable to some viewers as the new Gen Z bit cast members trying to make it.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The planets and characters are for the most part new and unrecognizable.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Nov. 2022
  • When Allen is off the floor, Cleveland is unrecognizable -- at both ends.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
  • My own body odor was unrecognizable, like a stranger had been wearing my clothes.
    Taylore Glynn, Allure, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Motor City is unrecognizable from even a few years ago (and honestly, there was a lot to love even then).
    Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Green has surveyed the town's ruins twice, and said the magnitude of the destruction has left the area unrecognizable.
    Analisa Novak, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Perez was unrecognizable Monday in a dark business suit and his hair cropped close.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The dump truck is caved-in and unrecognizable after the crash, which occurred less than two miles from South Mecklenburg High School.
    Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • Oregon has been unrecognizable from the team that lost in Atlanta.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The driver's car, found pancaked at the bottom of the ravine, was unrecognizable, according to Leum.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 25 July 2023
  • Video in the aftermath of the crash shows flames still burning and smoke billowing out of the unrecognizable remains of a mobile home.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024
  • To step into the part as Candy, Biel is nearly unrecognizable in a short curly wig and large glasses.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2022
  • At the same time, age means there are fewer of those acts, while attrition has rendered some bands that refuse to quit unrecognizable.
    Christopher Borrelli, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Pyasetskiy said his face was unrecognizable, had to walk home naked.
    Ian Lovett, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Some have been wounded so badly or have been lying in the open for so long that their bodies are unrecognizable.
    Lauren Egan, NBC News, 13 June 2022
  • In short, these are ridiculous figures — and yet not so ridiculous as to be unrecognizable.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In the pics from the magazine, the 42-year-old model is totally unrecognizable in a black wig with thin, blonde eyebrows.
    Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The most interesting part of the footage is that Kai’s face is almost unrecognizable.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • As a long line of cars wound down the highway, the streets behind them were rapidly becoming unrecognizable.
    Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • But right now it’s all just been mixed together in this unrecognizable pile of debris.
    ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Prior to landing her role on Outlander, Balfe was a fairly unrecognizable name to viewers of TV and film.
    Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
  • The kitchen is now completely unrecognizable from its former state and looks brighter and fresher.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Rowe, whose home in the Lake Davis neighborhood didn’t flood, said the water was as deep as four feet in parts and left the normally scenic area with views of the downtown skyline unrecognizable.
    Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
  • His body sat in a county morgue for 514 days, decomposing to the point of being unrecognizable.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, the show and films' aesthetic is so distinct that some members of the cast are nearly unrecognizable out of their period garb.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 17 May 2022

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