How to Use ineffable in a Sentence

ineffable

adjective

• What is the ineffable deficit between very good and great?
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022
• The ineffable is that which cannot or should not be uttered.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2018
• That ineffable quality that drew him to her in the first place?
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 25 Nov. 2018
• That will to stardom, that ineffable self-belief, is the key to Fanny’s code, and Michele cracks it.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• There are people who, in the depths of some ineffable despair or rage, desire to exit the world in a hail of bullets and a flood of blood.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Oct. 2017
• But this new Blade Runner is lacking the ineffable thing that a self-aware android might crave most: a soul.
  — Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• Sometimes an actor seemed to glow with a private, ineffable fire, only to lose the spark halfway through the play.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• There's also an ineffable quality to the risk in all this.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 2 July 2018
• Some ineffable X factor that transcends all of the above?
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Watch the movie to get a sense of that ineffable ingredient, and the sometimes-subtle ways that Streisand deploys it.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2022
• When trying to quantify the ineffable allure of the femme française, one obvious trait is right in our faces—and theirs, much of the time: French girl hair.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2017
• After a lifetime of her ineffable grace on stage, in film, and on television, Tyson died on Jan. 28 at 96.
  — Natalie Johnson, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2021
• That ineffable Kylie essence is always present regardless of whether Minogue wrote on a song or not.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
• If so, the variations have been endless, the themes ineffable.
  — Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
• When Liszt was on the rise, in his teens and twenties, the man of the hour was Sigismond Thalberg, an Austrian pianist prized for his ineffable singing line.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The sloth, about the size of a large sheepdog, hung upside down and stared at me with an expression of ineffable sadness on its furry face.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• There's this ineffable sense of stiffness at lower frame rates that, for certain types of games, is a detriment.
  — Wired, 8 Dec. 2019
• La’eeb, the ineffable mascot, held a rainbow banner that was on fire.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• There does seem to be something extra going on with the food these days: crispier dosas, brighter flavors, more of that ineffable taste of home.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2022
• The whole event is a collaboration between the ineffable space of your unique soul and a world made by others; and the end result is a one-of-a-kind encounter.
  — Time, 20 Sep. 2023
• The object of Hoare’s own quest is less actual whales than Dürer’s access to the ineffable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• An attempt to capture the ineffable feelings of kids as summer ends falls flat.
  — Matthew Lickona, National Review, 13 Aug. 2022
• By stirring us so powerfully, birds bring us up against the ineffable in a telling, pathos-laden way.
  — Ben Downing, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• To me, its defining trait is an ineffable comic sound, as nervy and raucous as the subway during rush hour.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• But this approach misses the essence of this ineffable concept.
  — Ray Kurzweil, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2012
• From its honeyed starch to its tangy tartar and savory fillet, the taste of the Filet-O-Fish carries an ineffable umami-ness.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2021
• There is something ineffable about a monarch's lying in state.
  — WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
• Father Couturier’s belief in art as an expression of the ineffable was the great epiphany to the de Menils.
  — Meryle Secrest, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
• Your voice is the ineffable quality that makes your writing unmistakably yours.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
• But the most common symptom described by athletes is simply an ineffable, confounding lack of ability.
  — Meaghen Brown, Outside Online, 12 June 2015

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024