How to Use indeterminate in a Sentence

indeterminate

adjective

• To keep tomatoes from competing for light, choose either indeterminate or determinate-type tomatoes, but don’t mix the two types in a single planting row.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2024
• What does stay with us is the voice — a fluttery quasi-falsetto of indeterminate gender — as the stranger approaches Lee in the snowy grounds outside her isolated home.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2024
• But the space is indeterminate and the whole thing’s hard to read.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2022
• Then the boy is an indeterminate age, but still teaching his Mom about love and life, as kids do.
  — Renee Valois, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
• The other options are life in prison or an indeterminate term of 25-years-to-life.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2021
• Teigen held a coupe of … something indeterminate and made a toast.
  — Helin Jung, Cosmopolitan, 21 Aug. 2017
• Between the rabid fans of the sci-fi franchise and his indeterminate work on a new chapter for the space saga, that’s no easy task.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 1 Dec. 2019
• Another spinoff, which added a slice of indeterminate cheese and a few strips of chewy bacon, was even more of a mish-mashed mess.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• And, to be clear, a wave -- of indeterminate size -- remains the most likely outcome.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 8 May 2018
• First up, Skull & Bones is delayed yet again, this time to some indeterminate date.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 17 May 2019
• An indeterminate variety will often just keep adding foliage and does not set fruit in time to beat the hot, or in the fall, the cold weather.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 12 July 2019
• As the title suggests, much of the movie takes place during this train ride, in an indeterminate time before cell phones.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2022
• That would have been a tremendous amount of job loss and money taken out of the economy for an indeterminate amount of time.
  — Nr Interview, National Review, 23 June 2021
• Ground overruns figure and space grows indeterminate, and within the mists bodies skew and bend, feet appear in the wrong places.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Gilded creatures of indeterminate species are locked in combat with a wild boar as dark as night.
  — John Hooper, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• At some indeterminate time after the concert, Kit shows up at Matt’s suite.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 15 Feb. 2021
• Most tomato cages are too small for indeterminate tomato plants destined to grow to six feet or so.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• The glue used to attach the fibers to the backing was off-gassing VOCs (volatile organic compounds) and would do so far into the indeterminate future.
  — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2024
• Congee is my reminder that, under the hard surfaces, the stuff of life is mostly soft and indeterminate.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2021
• Top off indeterminate plants so there isn’t any new growth and baby the existing fruits.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2019
• Judge Peter Lynch sentenced Hussain to an indeterminate term of 5 to 15 years in prison.
  — CBS News, 31 May 2023
• Riding on a camel or in the open back of a jeep, one traverses miles and miles only to encounter more indeterminate vastness.
  — Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2019
• The state asked the judge to give Baker a judgment of one year fixed and two years indeterminate in prison — and then suspend that sentence and place the defendant on probation.
  — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 8 May 2024
• As the pandemic drags on into a bleak and indeterminate future, so does the question of its origins.
  — Adam Federman, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2021
• This is because suicide is indeterminate, much like the X plus Y equals 1 equation.
  — Joseph Franklin, Scientific American, 11 June 2018
• The next scene takes place at some indeterminate future point, but Kim isn't in it and neither is Jimmy, really.
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 19 July 2022
• In apparent homage to the leisure suit, the blazer is double breasted, the trousers are flared wide, and the turtleneck is mock and of indeterminate synthetic fabric.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2022
• Even the lower growing determinate types that reach three to four feet should be trained upwards and indeterminate types that grow to more than eight feet need a cage.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Their pain was extreme and indeterminate, the end of time being its outer limit.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• Now, the country is facing the prospect of an election at an indeterminate future point without the party that won the most votes from citizens.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2021

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024