How to Use indistinct in a Sentence

indistinct

adjective

• But the man’s face is indistinct, and the woman’s back is to the camera.
  — National Geographic, 8 July 2017
• The three are indistinct, as are so many of the people in Whistler’s scenes of urban life.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• The show’s premise, like its title, is both indistinct and somewhat trite.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 18 Mar. 2022
• Their visages are indistinct and can be nothing more than ovals of blotchy paint.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• The video rearview system worked well in daylight but was predictably grainy and indistinct at night.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2020
• Mansel had long been aware that the sharp outlines of life and time and daily event were becoming blurred and indistinct for him….
  — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020
• The thing that flummoxes the steering is cruising straight at highway speeds, where the feel is dull and indistinct.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 25 Oct. 2021
• But the face on Zoom is not the strangely ageless one known to viewers, as indistinct at its edges as the features of an infant.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 4 June 2020
• Now this indistinct mass of person turned, unlocked himself from Thomas, and stood over me.
  — Andrew Martin, The Atlantic, 12 June 2020
• The indistinct voice of someone whose mouth is hidden behind his hand.
  — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• The twins’ words are drawn out into indistinct cries for a relationship that has forked with time.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 10 Dec. 2020
• There was a snapshot of the boy, his face indistinct in the engraving dots, a blond eighteen-year-old sitting on a rock and smiling.
  — Joan Didion, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
• The top of the Washington Monument appeared to be swallowed by the night’s mist, and the statue atop the Capitol Dome was indistinct at best.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2019
• The Knicks have traveled a different road, as gravel turns to dirt turns to a hazily indistinct foot path.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 4 May 2018
• Once the door closes, all that's discernible outside is an indistinct hum.
  — William Thornton, AL.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• The blurry video shows a woman holding a lighter to an indistinct object on a Brooklyn street.
  — NBC News, 6 June 2020
• But unlike dry and sandy Tatooine, this planet's surface is gassy and indistinct.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
• The landscape, blanketed by indistinct miles of mossy trees, gives way, fading to a tight frame of Gary Duncan.
  — Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
• In the gaping maw of the 5,000-seat Theater at Madison Square Garden, this big top feels little — and a little indistinct.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
• The dispatcher asked if anyone was with him, and Hummel said his sons, ages 10 and 9, were there, their voices indistinct in the background.
  — Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, 27 June 2017
• Now, the crew has been reduced to wondering aloud if a three-top can become a four-top at an airy yet indistinct restaurant.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2022
• The breeze is gentle, carrying the indistinct sounds of children playing somewhere down the beach.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2022
• Wilderness medicine was fuzzily indistinct from the kind of at-home first aid formalized by the Red Cross in the early 20th century.
  — Matt Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2017
• The No Spot Twins were indistinct in the first days — a close pair of orange beltons (orange ticking, but no patches) that slept and fed together.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
• Another, of indistinct origin, asked their teacher not to give them a lot of homework.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2018
• The flurries at the beginning of the finale, for example, sounded like indistinct rumblings on the bass.
  — Dallas News, 4 June 2022
• The impetus for the decision was long-standing concern that the symbols were racist and of poor, indistinct designs.
  — Mark Wasson, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2024
• But her character remains as indistinct to him as the figures on Warlight’s cover.
  — Andrew Lanham, The New Republic, 8 June 2018
• This tiny but critical moment was indistinct in the current cut, because Riley ran out of time on the day of filming and had to shoot the sequence elsewhere.
  — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 22 May 2018
• His car will have to contend with indistinct grass curbs and protective hay bales that might move if someone else crashes into them or they get kicked by the crowd.
  — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 7 July 2018

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024