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Recent Examples of indescribable People pouring through our borders, unchecked, people doing things that are indescribable and not for today to discuss. Avery Lotz, Axios, 26 May 2025 The taste, a pink electrocution of the tongue, was indescribable—and there was a version that was more so? Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025 No matter how much authenticity a film production strives for in a Holocaust drama, the end product will never fully capture the indescribable horrors of the Nazi effort to exterminate Europe’s Jewish population during World War II. Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025 Changes in estrogen levels during these times can lead to a host of symptoms that could contribute to an indescribable burning sensation. Cheyenne Buckingham, SELF, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for indescribable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indescribable
Adjective
  • In the fewer than five years since then, the tracks have collectively moved an incredible five million additional equivalent units.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Told in the second person – a love letter from a younger sister to an older – this incredible novel, from the author of The Wedding People, explores how absence can be the biggest presence.
    Fran Littlewood June 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Set primarily in Jacksonville, Moniz’s stories trace the contours of her characters’ inner lives, including private pains and unspeakable secrets, showing us ordinary people with extraordinary things broiling just beneath the surface.
    Grace Flahive June 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
  • Luke's exile Luke agrees to train Leia and Han's son in the ways of the Force, but his fear over Ben Solo turning to the Dark Side prompts an unspeakable act: Luke tries to kill Ben in his sleep, but the Padawan stops him.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • An ineffable, but important community component was lost in that economic and social transition.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
  • The city has captured the hearts of travelers of centuries for its innate elegance and beauty, along with that ineffable je ne sais quoi.
    Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 3 June 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
  • Her work often explores indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2025
  • An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024

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“Indescribable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indescribable. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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