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Recent Examples of indescribable Drowning in an indescribable emptiness, Day chases Dusk to the throne room and beats the ever-living hell out of him, but Dusk has something Day doesn’t — nanites. Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025 The emotional and spiritual endpoint for most Camino routes in Santiago de Compostela—the overwhelming sense of accomplishment—is indescribable. Hayley Domin, AFAR Media, 10 Sep. 2025 In Europe, there is indescribable frustration and fear over the U.S. stepping back from leading the Western alliance—to the incredible point of seeming to actually align itself with the West's authoritarian enemies (as Trump did in recent elections in Romania and Poland). Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 It’s been such a privilege to compete here, and to be in the final is just indescribable. Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for indescribable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indescribable
Adjective
  • Just glad the world will now get to see what these incredible individuals next to me and off-camera have created.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • We’ve been given so many incredible opportunities, so now the main thing for us is to share with other people.
    Sophie Williams, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Skinwalkers are believed to be those who have committed unspeakable acts, gaining dark powers in return.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Harwicz’s books are most generously appreciated as spelunking missions into the cave of the unwell mind, untethered from our op-ed pages or the unspeakable carnage available to us every day on our Instagram reels.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • If everything is systematically interlinked, then life’s transcendent beauty is inextricable from its inexpressible horrors and outright silliness, like the jarring swings between slapstick and tragedy in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.
    Jack Denton, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, there were chuckles to hold back anger and carefully chosen words to express what felt inexpressible.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • These dishes have been there for generations, like the ineffable energy that seeps from the walls of this special Bay View nook.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • What else is there to say in the face of the ineffable?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Two high voices — LACO features soprano Amanda Forsythe and countertenor John Holiday — intertwine with the orchestra turning this hymn to the Virgin Mary’s suffering into unutterable sweetness and treating death as life’s engenderment.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.
    Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
Adjective
  • For all Sacks’ efforts to remain an indefinable cult figure outside the mainstream, he has lately been caught in Hollywood’s tractor beam, with several film scripts in advanced stages of development.
    Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This East Coast city earns high marks year after year for its various dining options, museums, and the indefinable, electric energy of the city that never sleeps.
    Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025

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“Indescribable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indescribable. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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