How to Use inscrutable in a Sentence

inscrutable

adjective

• He was a quiet, inscrutable man.
• The folded piece of paper in his wallet was perhaps the most pregnant and inscrutable remnant of all.
  — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
• Each stop gradually peels back some slight emotional layers of its somewhat inscrutable main pairing.
  — Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 2 Nov. 2024
• But Texas tends to be as inscrutable as Sims in the second half of games.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2021
• But the dads most of us grew up with — and without — are a more inscrutable lot.
  — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 19 June 2017
• The findings add to the mystique of the most inscrutable part of our world, Vidale said.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
• At times, her words were inscrutable and even volatile.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
• But time and again, Carol proves to be an inscrutable hero.
  — Stephanie Merry, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• The plan to recruit more of the touched to Amalia True’s inscrutable mission isn’t going so hot.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2021
• But the rest of the lymphatic system was more inscrutable.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2021
• Ruscha’s gas-station signs and Warhol’s soup cans are inscrutable.
  — The New Yorker, 21 July 2021
• There are times when the inner workings of the White House can feel inscrutable to outsiders.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
• Teenage schoolgirls on a class trip go missing in the harsh and inscrutable wilderness.
  — Vulture, 18 Jan. 2022
• Now, the entire island people called paradise is the inscrutable view of a city laid to waste.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
• But for all the detail, Manafort the man remains inscrutable.
  — Mary Louise Kelly, idahostatesman, 2 Apr. 2018
• The mind resists getting too close to the inscrutable hot dog’s true nature.
  — Whizy Kim, Vox, 1 July 2024
• All that’s left to decide is what Leonard—one of the most inscrutable players in the league—really wants.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 24 June 2019
• Zadok walks down his stairs, wearing jeans and an inscrutable look under the hood of a sweatshirt.
  — The New Yorker, 6 July 2021
• And Capela, as his pick-and-roll partner, has to see the truth beneath Harden’s inscrutable moves.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 18 May 2018
• Waugh stares at his Zoom camera for a good few seconds with an inscrutable smile.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 Sep. 2021
• Elizabeth, inscrutable even in her younger years, gives her a long look.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• In a suburban office park, the signs aren’t so inscrutable.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2022
• Even then, Kruger is somewhat inscrutable on this aspect of her work.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2022
• No matter their length, sometimes the meanings of the stories remain inscrutable at the end.
  — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
• The degree to which some patents are inscrutable is comical.
  — Stephen Key, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• And yet there is a dimension to some people that seems inscrutable.
  — John Blake, CNN, 12 May 2018
• To some in the audience, the writing appeared inscrutable.
  — Andrew Pantazi, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2020
• Finally, a chance to plumb through the grim depths of A&E without needing to parse through any inscrutable genre tags!
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 18 June 2021
• And yet, for maybe the first time since that day, the question of who commissioned her killing no longer appears so inscrutable.
  — Alexander Clapp, 1843, 11 Dec. 2019
• Streaming is an inscrutable black box, about which so many stories might be told.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024