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

With Frankenstein, he worries he’ll jinx the monster by talking too much about him, snuffing out the ineffable thing that he says fueled his performance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 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

Chancellorsville came down to some ineffable, magical decision-making ability that Lee possessed and Hooker did not.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell