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beyond the power to describe
continually encountered unspeakable beauty in their travels through the Alps
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Recent Examples of unspeakable
Or marry Selden, if you’re actually attracted to him, and endure the not-very-unspeakable fate of being merely upper middle class rather than super-rich.
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Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
The unspeakable drama of these killings is an understandable draw to filmmakers interested in humanity’s worst impulses.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
Most Call of Cthulhu campaigns are set during the 1920s or in the modern day, This one pits the players against the unspeakable Hastur in Japan during the 1980s.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Critics tend to argue that the atomic bombs were unnecessary, inflicting unspeakable devastation on cities filled with civilians against an enemy that was already defeated and soon going to surrender.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unspeakable
Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
The unspeakable drama of these killings is an understandable draw to filmmakers interested in humanity’s worst impulses.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
Most Call of Cthulhu campaigns are set during the 1920s or in the modern day, This one pits the players against the unspeakable Hastur in Japan during the 1980s.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Critics tend to argue that the atomic bombs were unnecessary, inflicting unspeakable devastation on cities filled with civilians against an enemy that was already defeated and soon going to surrender.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unspeakable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspeakable
Adjective
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Vacheron Constantin unveiled a bonkers automation clock and an incredible Métiers d’Art watch to match.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
30 Sep. 2025
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Neurons are incredible pieces of biological hardware that enable complex processes like thought, emotion, and movement via specialized communication across vast networks using electrical and chemical signals.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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The scene was terrible, indescribable, a tragedy.—
Jillian Frankel,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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That ineffable charge continued to feel palpable as the lights went down and a thunderous roar went up.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
19 Sep. 2025
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Every man will seek with ineffable ardour the good of all.—
Roy Scranton,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Much like the famed British poets of World War I, who sought to express the inexpressible, Abu Toha strives to capture the unspeakable carnage, futility, and despair of war.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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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
Adjective
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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
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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
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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
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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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“Unspeakable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspeakable. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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