Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of inexpressible Writing gives mothers the space and the time to express the inexpressible, even when the space and time do so are stolen away. Alice Vincent, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2025 Some people also use wills to try to express the inexpressible or unsaid. R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025 Lana’s murder at 40 fills me with an inexpressible grief because in many ways, my 40th year was when my own life began. Meg Pillow july 31, Literary Hub, 31 July 2025 Saunders, who wanted to be recognized not only as a Black artist but as an American artist, believed art was a way of expressing the otherwise inexpressible. News Desk, Artforum, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for inexpressible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inexpressible
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
  • In the final chapter, Heather has the chance to hear from two sisters, Jennie and Lizzy, who suffered indescribable abuse at the hands of their father.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The grief felt by our entire staff is indescribable.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And nothing is more isolating, more incommunicable, than the grief of a parent who has been unable to save their child’s life.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • In a way, Tiffany’s rendering of fandom as specific and incommunicable risks undermining her premise, which has to do with the massed power of people online.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 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
Adjective
  • For Sturdevant, the ebbs and flows are unexplainable.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
  • All seems well until Caitlyn starts to slowly lose her mind as strange, unexplainable things start to happen within her family.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

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

More from Merriam-Webster on inexpressible

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!