How to Use inscrutable in a Sentence

inscrutable

adjective

• He was a quiet, inscrutable man.
• But the dads most of us grew up with — and without — are a more inscrutable lot.
  — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 19 June 2017
• Still others were more inscrutable.
  — Katie Palmer, STAT, 14 Jan. 2026
• The singer covered her mouth with her hand, making her words inscrutable.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
• Streaming is an inscrutable black box, about which so many stories might be told.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• Elizabeth, inscrutable even in her younger years, gives her a long look.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• Ruscha’s gas-station signs and Warhol’s soup cans are inscrutable.
  — The New Yorker, 21 July 2021
• The past, however, could be just as inscrutable.
  — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
• And yet there is a dimension to some people that seems inscrutable.
  — John Blake, CNN, 12 May 2018
• But Texas tends to be as inscrutable as Sims in the second half of games.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2021
• Even then, Kruger is somewhat inscrutable on this aspect of her work.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2022
• Waugh stares at his Zoom camera for a good few seconds with an inscrutable smile.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 Sep. 2021
• The mind resists getting too close to the inscrutable hot dog’s true nature.
  — Whizy Kim, Vox, 1 July 2024
• Teenage schoolgirls on a class trip go missing in the harsh and inscrutable wilderness.
  — Vulture, 18 Jan. 2022
• The story’s inscrutable moments even take on a sort of beauty.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
• Some of these attacks come from the left, or from people with inscrutable worldviews.
  — Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
• That night, at Shakespeare’s, the future was just as inscrutable for us all.
  — Óscar Martínez & Carlos Martínez, The Dial, 16 Sep. 2025
• Zadok walks down his stairs, wearing jeans and an inscrutable look under the hood of a sweatshirt.
  — The New Yorker, 6 July 2021
• You’re supposed to be inscrutable, woman!
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
• People generally think of him as a sort of kind of inscrutable guy.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025
• Now, the entire island people called paradise is the inscrutable view of a city laid to waste.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 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
• The findings add to the mystique of the most inscrutable part of our world, Vidale said.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
• Something inscrutable flashes behind those keen hazel eyes.
  — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
• But the message was so inscrutable that the mystery only deepened.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 28 June 2018
• But for all the detail, Manafort the man remains inscrutable.
  — Mary Louise Kelly, idahostatesman, 2 Apr. 2018
• 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
• No matter their length, sometimes the meanings of the stories remain inscrutable at the end.
  — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
• The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of the cosmos.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2026
• There are times when the inner workings of the White House can feel inscrutable to outsiders.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018