How to Use undetectable in a Sentence

undetectable

adjective
  • Tests found the amount of dust in the air inside the fire station was undetectable.
    Anna Beahm | Abeahm@al.com, al.com, 19 July 2019
  • For years, the changes have been slow and almost undetectable.
    Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2018
  • In the open ocean, tsunami waves can be small and may even be undetectable by a boat at the surface.
    Sally Warner, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The Hatch chiles and cheese sauce were almost undetectable though.
    Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Soto said the trauma Ching described would not have healed in that time to the point that the injury was undetectable.
    Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • On flat ground, the motor’s boost can be undetectable, but on a steep hill, the help can make a big difference.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The same undetectable backdoor works on the $200 Ledger Blue, which is billed as a higher-end device.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The gear ratios seem just right, and boost lag is almost undetectable.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 7 May 2023
  • The result was so effective that the message of the bombers was undetectable in pictures in newsprint.
    Randal Doane, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • While such a faint signal would normally be undetectable, that should not be the case in voids.
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 8 June 2022
  • At first, these compounds may be undetectable by taste or smell.
    Eric Asimov, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Seeing it for the first time, the effect is soothing and layered, the hard graft behind it undetectable.
    Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2021
  • A year later, 16 patients were alive and the cancer was still undetectable.
    NBC News, 16 Apr. 2018
  • And even if the ship itself could be made completely undetectable, its wake might still give it away.
    Abe Dane, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
  • To the naked eye, a massive glacier moving 100 feet is almost undetectable.
    Stefanie Ellis, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The wires were also undetectable when lying on the bed, according to our tester.
    Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The first was that vodka was (allegedly) undetectable on your breath, the end-to-end encryption of its time.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Rodis wants both to shield sensitive body parts and to make their contours undetectable.
    Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • What had been obvious to his coach had been undetectable to his classmates.
    Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Indeed, Pinot Noir was not only near-undetectable in terms of taste but also on the label.
    Lettie Teague, WSJ, 25 June 2019
  • Newcomb Hollow beach now has a sensor, but a shark without a tag is undetectable to it.
    Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The hibiscus is undetectable, but the ginger is assertive and tasty.
    Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 13 July 2019
  • The trouble is that much of the trail of Anna Harvey’s influence is undetectable.
    Sarah Mower, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2018
  • So, what would happen if humans were undetectable by this pest?
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • By the twenty-eighth day, a viral load was undetectable in the three surviving monkeys.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
  • On my skin tone—which is similar to the powder color—the bronze is nearly undetectable, leaving just a ton of shine.
    Deanna Pai, Glamour, 23 Apr. 2018
  • What made it that much worse was that her cancer was undetectable in a routine mammogram.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Check out the best backless bras that stay undetectable beneath clothing.
    Amanda Constantine, Good Housekeeping, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Some can be buried within the training data in a way that is undetectable to humans but still manipulates the machine.
    Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
  • If patients reach a point where amyloid plaque levels in the brain are nearly undetectable, the FDA said doctors can stop prescribing Kisunla, possibly reducing costs.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 2 July 2024

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