How to Use ineffable in a Sentence

ineffable

adjective

• What is the ineffable deficit between very good and great?
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022
• The ineffable is that which cannot or should not be uttered.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2018
• That ineffable quality that drew him to her in the first place?
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 25 Nov. 2018
• There's also an ineffable quality to the risk in all this.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 2 July 2018
• But this approach misses the essence of this ineffable concept.
  — Ray Kurzweil, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2012
• An attempt to capture the ineffable feelings of kids as summer ends falls flat.
  — Matthew Lickona, National Review, 13 Aug. 2022
• This speaks to an ineffable longing written on our hearts.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• There are people who, in the depths of some ineffable despair or rage, desire to exit the world in a hail of bullets and a flood of blood.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Oct. 2017
• The change has altered his music in ways both quantifiable and more ineffable.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2016
• There is something ineffable about a monarch's lying in state.
  — WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
• The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit and filled me with ineffable sadness.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• If so, the variations have been endless, the themes ineffable.
  — Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
• Sometimes an actor seemed to glow with a private, ineffable fire, only to lose the spark halfway through the play.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• La’eeb, the ineffable mascot, held a rainbow banner that was on fire.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• Others are drawn by the ineffable — the mystique around a place so close, but so unfamiliar.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• To me, its defining trait is an ineffable comic sound, as nervy and raucous as the subway during rush hour.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The sky felt infinite, ready to tip into some other ineffable ether.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2021
• The sloth, about the size of a large sheepdog, hung upside down and stared at me with an expression of ineffable sadness on its furry face.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• There's this ineffable sense of stiffness at lower frame rates that, for certain types of games, is a detriment.
  — Wired, 8 Dec. 2019
• By stirring us so powerfully, birds bring us up against the ineffable in a telling, pathos-laden way.
  — Ben Downing, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Watch the movie to get a sense of that ineffable ingredient, and the sometimes-subtle ways that Streisand deploys it.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2022
• For non-players of chess, there’s something far more ineffable.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 28 Oct. 2020
• But his true quest is to untangle the ineffable nature of connection itself.
  — Alex Mar, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2017
• There does seem to be something extra going on with the food these days: crispier dosas, brighter flavors, more of that ineffable taste of home.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2022
• The fact that such things do not happen anywhere else with anything approaching the same frequency—that too is the work of some ineffable mystery.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 June 2017
• But this new Blade Runner is lacking the ineffable thing that a self-aware android might crave most: a soul.
  — Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• And how to cook this complex and ineffable nostalgia into dinner?
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2019
• How the victories and defeats and teamwork and even tears would strengthen them in some ineffable but consequential way.
  — Mac Schwerin, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
• Sometimes what hurts us and also what moves us, is profoundly ineffable.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• What tenebrous horror is this, emerging from the ineffable darkness?
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024