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

Auden and William Carlos Williams, because it depicts, with brutal humor, a simple fact that most of us are loath to acknowledge: Suffering is incommunicable.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020

I mean it was the first real book, and also the first book I ever read, in the sense that I had a private vision of what I was reading about—unexpected, incommunicable, painfully exciting.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2015

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

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer