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
When Ishmael stops by the Whaleman's Chapel before his fateful journey, "each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable."
From Salon • Dec. 11, 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
“Like religious experiences, it was profoundly incommunicable: a void opened up between him and everyone else, he thought, just for having seen what he’d seen, for having touched what he’d touched.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2018
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
