ineffable

Example Sentences

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"We are grateful for her passion, her wit, her ineffable style, and all the summers she spent in the tent."

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

Then, after a short silence, the music resumed, but now with the addition of Mr. Muhly on prepared piano, lending ineffable poignancy to strains of unsentimental emotionalism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

This trend is often blamed on an ineffable consumer preference, or Americans’ being fat, but that isn’t exactly true.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

That ineffable feeling of danger is what drew so many people to FLAG’s Memorial Day performance.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025

It all added up to more than he could really put into words, maybe more than even a poet could—something beyond the sum of its parts, something mysterious and ineffable and gorgeous to behold.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown