incommunicable

Example Sentences

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Mr. Dyer remained a dutiful son but, sensing that part of his life was now incommunicable to his parents, withheld his most important feelings from them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Abstract artists, including Alberto Burri, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Jack Whitten and Mark Bradford, all found unique ways to use such materials to conjure the weight of incommunicable things.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021

Her new book, “Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children,” is a ravishing novel charged with the idea of the incommunicable.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2018

Flanagan said that he and his five siblings grew up “children of the Death Railway. We carried in consequence many incommunicable things.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 15, 2014

That I was not dueling with Argaven, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin