ineffable
Example Sentences
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The bigger half is that ineffable star-stuff: the essence, the soul.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026
"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
“It’s not just fatigue — it’s an ineffable, system wide cry for help and I don’t know how long I can remain in this state,” Moriarty continues in her text to her mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025
She sighed a sigh of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing ineffable
The Great Gatsby
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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