unattainable
Example Sentences
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Unattainable standards of physical attractiveness didn’t establish themselves overnight.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2018
I knew why he sighed—there is so much of it — the Unattainable!
From Hermione's Group of Thinkers by Marquis, Don
Then the former swineherd went in to share his Christmas dinner with the King-Count's daughter, Alianora, whom people everywhere had called the Unattainable Princess.
From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch
Paris, where, as he says, "talent is mediocrity; art, a frenzied endeavour to express the Inexpressible; human endeavour, a spasmodic straining to clutch the Unattainable."
From Lafcadio Hearn by Kennard, Nina H.
Nevertheless, you are the Unattainable Princess, whose loveliness recalled me from vain grieving after Niafer, within a half-hour of Niafer's loss.
From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch
Vocabulary lists containing unattainable
Power Prefix: un-
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "U"
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: un-
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