How to Use unspeakable in a Sentence

unspeakable

adjective

• The weight of the unsaid and the unspeakable, the lost and the left out, hangs over the poem’s head.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• The unspeakable tragedy of that night didn’t end there.
  — Abigail Haworth, Marie Claire, 1 July 2019
• There are shades of It in the unspeakable evil that presents itself over the course of The Outsider.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 May 2018
• That’s when the visions would end, the brain editing out the unspeakable parts.
  — New York Times, 5 Oct. 2021
• The Walking Dead, now two-thirds of the waythrough its 11th and final season, has done the unspeakable.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• Even in the face of unspeakable heartache, its limbs reach outward and upward.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• The families of the children have shared tributes in the wake of this unspeakable tragedy.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024
• For a survivor of the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust, the ordeal did not stop when the war ended.
  — Liesbeth Heenk, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2022
• He has, of course, been tortured, in the usual, unspeakable hell.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Nov. 2022
• New Yorkers have seen all kinds of unspeakable things in the city's waters.
  — WSJ, 12 July 2022
• Life is hard and messy and full of unspeakable horrors and the wildest, most ordinary joys.
  — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 21 May 2018
• Jimmy’s dad hopes that something good can come out of the unspeakable loss.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2021
• The footage made clear that the deaths were horrific and the suffering unspeakable.
  — Marc Fisher and Naomi Nix, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• That means the Losers Club must confront the horrors of its past and put an end to the unspeakable evil that has terrorized the town for so long.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 July 2019
• Saying what for so long had been something that was very unspeakable to me.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• The murder of so fine a public servant has been an unspeakable agony for this city.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• The promise of a saner day, one cleansed and informed by unspeakable tragedy.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2021
• Since the beginning of this case, our hearts have been with the families of the 36 victims that died in this unspeakable tragedy.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• But today the house is a reminder of unspeakable tragedy, silent except for the lapping waves and the wind outside.
  — Stephanie Bauer, PEOPLE.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• Watch the series to find out all of the gritty details of the unspeakable crime, how the conviction came to be, and where Kelly is now.
  — Katey Clifford, al, 5 July 2020
• These Winter Street folk had made their way north, away from unspeakable horrors in their states of birth.
  — Susanna Ashton, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
• The mounds of flowers and gifts at the foot of the crosses are 2 feet tall -- a tangible expression of unspeakable grief.
  — Claire Galofaro, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
• Equal Pay Day — a day that comes in the midst of unspeakable tragedy and turmoil in our country — pass without remark.
  — Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Time, 4 June 2020
• There seemed to be a sense of rising unspeakable dangers to children.
  — Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
• And there were people in that room – first of all, of tremendous grief, unspeakable frustration and anger.
  — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024
• On the ghost floor, the quiet had dimension and weight, an unspeakable presence.
  — Kate Walbert, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
• Yes — people owned slaves, and yes, that is an unspeakable horror.
  — Katherine Timpf, National Review, 10 July 2019
• This was a composer tasked with saying the unsayable against the unspeakable.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• May God be pleased with her works and may peace, understanding and unspeakable joy be yours always.
  — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2024
• Alex, too, almost walked away from his unspeakable crimes with his reputation intact, but his downfall was secured by a twist of fate, some stray mistakes, and a fateful decision by an old friend who’d finally seen enough.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024