How to Use inscrutable in a Sentence

inscrutable

adjective

• He was a quiet, inscrutable man.
• At times, her words were inscrutable and even volatile.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
• But the rest of the lymphatic system was more inscrutable.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2021
• But the dads most of us grew up with — and without — are a more inscrutable lot.
  — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 19 June 2017
• But Texas tends to be as inscrutable as Sims in the second half of games.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2021
• Teenage schoolgirls on a class trip go missing in the harsh and inscrutable wilderness.
  — Vulture, 18 Jan. 2022
• The degree to which some patents are inscrutable is comical.
  — Stephen Key, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• And yet there is a dimension to some people that seems inscrutable.
  — John Blake, CNN, 12 May 2018
• Now, the entire island people called paradise is the inscrutable view of a city laid to waste.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
• But the message was so inscrutable that the mystery only deepened.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 28 June 2018
• Zadok walks down his stairs, wearing jeans and an inscrutable look under the hood of a sweatshirt.
  — The New Yorker, 6 July 2021
• To some in the audience, the writing appeared inscrutable.
  — Andrew Pantazi, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2020
• No matter their length, sometimes the meanings of the stories remain inscrutable at the end.
  — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
• But for all the detail, Manafort the man remains inscrutable.
  — Mary Louise Kelly, idahostatesman, 2 Apr. 2018
• In a suburban office park, the signs aren’t so inscrutable.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2022
• Waugh stares at his Zoom camera for a good few seconds with an inscrutable smile.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 Sep. 2021
• Elizabeth, inscrutable even in her younger years, gives her a long look.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• Streaming is an inscrutable black box, about which so many stories might be told.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• Why would the sphinx appeal to the men and women who work to understand an inscrutable enemy?
  — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2022
• The show brought me back to my early pandemic sense of time as something shaky, even inscrutable.
  — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• There are times when the inner workings of the White House can feel inscrutable to outsiders.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
• Even then, Kruger is somewhat inscrutable on this aspect of her work.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2022
• Instead her gaze is inscrutable, like the woman herself.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2022
• Ruscha’s gas-station signs and Warhol’s soup cans are inscrutable.
  — The New Yorker, 21 July 2021
• And yet, for maybe the first time since that day, the question of who commissioned her killing no longer appears so inscrutable.
  — Alexander Clapp, 1843, 11 Dec. 2019
• The plan to recruit more of the touched to Amalia True’s inscrutable mission isn’t going so hot.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2021
• Once my account was live, placing a bet was somewhat inscrutable.
  — Rebecca R. Ruiz, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
• That such a mass of animals should go undiscovered for so long shows quite how inscrutable the sea has always been.
  — The Economist, 10 Mar. 2018
• Supreme Court justices are often inscrutable and press averse.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2022
• Who knows what dirty tricks the Trump campaign might try, or how inscrutable swing voters might react?
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 12 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024