How to Use inconclusive in a Sentence

inconclusive

adjective

• The results of the test were inconclusive.
• The first two rounds of the boxing match were inconclusive.
• The outlook for the rest of the year remains inconclusive.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Years of inconclusive fighting has pushed the Arab world’s poorest nation to the brink of famine.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 16 Apr. 2022
• Years of inconclusive fighting has pushed the Arab world's poorest nation to the brink of famine.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 15 Nov. 2022
• Casey Schnack: The expert said that that was inconclusive.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2023
• The irony is that, at the time of DDT’s ban, the science linking its spray to human health was suggestive but inconclusive.
  — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 31 May 2022
• Part of the discussion today was about the science and, frankly, the science is inconclusive.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• But the effects of these compounds are so far inconclusive.
  — Madeleine Watts, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The zoo conducted necropsies on the owlets, but the results were inconclusive.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2022
• More news to know now An inconclusive vote in Spain leaves the country in a political labyrinth.
  — USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• But that replay was determined to be inconclusive, the out call was upheld, and the inning was over.
  — Mike Digiovannastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022
• Phinn ordered the tests in March, but the results have so far been inconclusive, court documents show.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2022
• But when evidence from the crime scene was finally sent to the DNA lab to be tested, the results were inconclusive.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
• But numerous studies over the past decades have proven to be rather inconclusive.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2022
• But none of the small, inconclusive studies that have been done on apple cider vinegar have studied the pill form—only the liquid.
  — Women's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
• As of this writing, others are busy running tests, and the results are inconclusive.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
• But much prior research has been small in scale, and at times, inconclusive, experts say.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
• If that sounds as if years of inconclusive activity may still lie ahead, that shouldn’t be a surprise.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• The play might have started offside, and Portland challenged, but it was deemed inconclusive.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2022
• Studies on the health benefits of ice baths are inconclusive.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Casutt launched his big idea after testing it with only a small group of 12 readers, and even then the findings were inconclusive.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 28 June 2022
• For more than ten years, my medical tests were inconclusive.
  — Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
• After two inconclusive tests, the third showed a positive result, prompting Heather to take two more for good measure.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022
• Ivy Choi, a spokeswoman for YouTube, said that the company was working closely with the Europeans and that the report’s findings were inconclusive.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Most of the testing yielded inconclusive or non-useful results, the motion filed Wednesday says.
  — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2022
• The death was determined to be inconclusive, which happens about half the time in non-musculoskeletal necropsies.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
• As of early Wednesday, both of those tests remain inconclusive.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
• Investigations into what caused the Tunnel Fire that burned near Flagstaff a year ago April have come back inconclusive.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• The report adds to a growing list of inconclusive theories about the pandemic's origins.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 24 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024