How to Use invisible in a Sentence

invisible

adjective
  • She feels as if her success is being blocked by an invisible barrier.
  • Homelessness is no longer an invisible problem for this city.
  • With the telescope we can see details of the planet's surface that are ordinarily invisible.
  • Not just the bull’s-eye, but the invisible dot in the middle of the bull’s-eye that’s only big enough for him.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Flies flocked to just one of the blades, enticed by traces of blood invisible to the human eye.
    Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • And ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds, Of a need to call out through the dark.
    TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • For all their numbers, the migrants, in most of the city, are invisible.
    Olivia Bensimon Todd Heisler, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The true task of my work is trying to find a way to take that invisible world and make a tiny window through it.
    Vulture, 27 Dec. 2023
  • On the other are fields of brush aflutter with tiny, invisible birds.
    John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In the meantime, the presence of Swift’s music may be the best way to predict who will be at the other end of Belly’s invisible string.
    Bella Arnold, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But what does that mean, love, for a color to be there but be hidden, what is an invisible color?
    Ben Lerner, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The tiny stars, the starless worlds, invisible asteroids, alien comets and more.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The tiny stars, the starless worlds, invisible asteroids, alien comets, and more.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
  • As the ground dries out, the invisible spores can be lifted out of the soil by a bulldozer, a rake, a hiking boot, an earthquake, or even a strong gust of wind.
    Zoya Teirstein, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Because Parker was entombed in about 4 feet of snow, invisible to the dozens of people who by now had amassed on the face of the mountain to look for survivors.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth – in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak.
    Town & Country, 30 May 2023
  • The wear, the tear and pain, all just invisible reminders that eventually every round comes to a close.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
  • Wyatt was almost invisible the first 15 weeks of the season.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The Rafael Peralta and the Ottawa began to weave their way through the fishing boats, which were nearly invisible in the darkness.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Latu and Willis were 2023 draft picks, but invisible rookies.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Instead, on the front of the dream book, the title was spelled out in metal type that floated just above the cloth of the binding, as if set in an invisible letterpress chase.
    Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In my fictional town, the have-nots are all outside PV’s high walls and therefore invisible.
    Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • These changes are invisible to the human eye but detected by AI.
    Josh Hendrickson, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The public in this case was the invisible faces now made visible by a justice movement.
    Mark Arax, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • Yet amid the region’s worst crisis in decades, Russia and China are all but invisible.
    Gregg Carlstrom, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, much of the soils on your towels are invisible body soils.1 Another culprit?
    Tamara Gane, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Doesn’t need many quality chances - can be invisible for long stretches, but is sure to score on his only chance.
    Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • At a certain point, feeling invisible can begin to take a toll on your mental health.
    Austin Williams, Men's Health, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The dress also features side-seam pockets, an invisible zipper for easy on and off, and a lined bust for extra support.
    Megan Schaltegger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Increasingly, they are also used to build other types of imaginary worlds, becoming a kind of invisible infrastructure.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024

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