How to Use unsayable in a Sentence

unsayable

adjective

• Well-meaning observers want to split the difference between the sayable and unsayable.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2026
• All fair, but an uncomfortable couch and a passion for the art of the unsayable are not reasons enough to kill oneself.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
• All the secrets pour out, the revelations of infidelity and addiction and so on, as the group gives vent to the stuff that’s previously been unsayable—not to fix anything, mind you, since some things can’t be fixed.
  — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
• But Woolf’s broad, sweeping pronouncements about what literature is and isn’t capable of were always meant sarcastically; her life’s work, after all, was to push the boundaries of literature so as to say the unsayable.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
• What the novel is working toward is not the exposure of a violation, let alone the processing of any real-life event, but a recognition of the self—a self who survives the scourges of childhood, and a storytelling-self who learns that fiction can reveal otherwise unsayable truths.
  — Honor Jones, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026