How to Use unidentifiable in a Sentence

unidentifiable

adjective
  • The year the letter was sent is unidentifiable from the photos.
    Matt Reynolds, Wired, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Doocy asks, as a second unidentifiable voice from out of shot does the same.
    Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • His body was one of the unidentifiable bodies found in Gacy’s crawl space.
    William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Huge amounts of unidentifiable plastic bits, and a whole lot of road sand.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Finally, the car, fuzzy and unidentifiable in the footage.
    Robert Anglen, azcentral, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Zhang, a 42-year-old Uber driver, said he had been knocked out by a stranger at his door with an unidentifiable mist.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
  • Taken on an unidentifiable track, her leash is held tight at the collar by a man who is cut off at the torso.
    Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Tioni might wind her waist alone to the music, or dance in a thong, or grind against the waistband of an unidentifiable male wielding the camera.
    Reginald Dwayne Betts, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • From what is visible in the video, the largest living thing behind the wheel of the Endurance is an anemone (species unidentifiable).
    New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
  • In the clip, several unidentifiable men can be seen in a boat with their hands in the air and a helicopter overhead.
    Jonny Hallam and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 6 May 2020
  • Some clothes, a few toys, unidentifiable stains, and sometimes blood.
    Cory Stieg, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Since then, nearly every unidentifiable piece within the star’s wardrobe has been rumored to be a part of the label.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 21 May 2019
  • Stray dogs ripped at the corpse of an unidentifiable animal.
    I Made Sentana, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
  • The carnage in south Texas killed 19 school-age children, some of whose bodies were unidentifiable to their parents.
    Farnoush Amiri, Chron, 20 July 2022
  • Grave markers of veterans are in many cases unidentifiable due to leaves and weeds clinging to the stones.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Behind her -- hunched down, sitting askew and with a hat pulled low -- is an unidentifiable person.
    OregonLive.com, 10 July 2017
  • The unidentifiable tattoo was placed on his right forearm among a sleeve of other artwork.
    Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • North Korea later released grainy footage showing an unidentifiable man taking the long board from the wall and propping it down on the floor.
    Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The man is unidentifiable in the video; the camera is positioned behind Sterling.
    Nick Valencia, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Trucked back to Gaza, the bodies are often decomposed and unidentifiable, buried quickly in a mass grave.
    Julia Frankel and Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • One unidentifiable outfit still haunts the brothers: a souvenir jacket Kanye wore in a Francis and the Lights music video.
    Cam Wolf, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Over 99 percent of the debris is made of plastic—most pieces are unidentifiable fragments.
    Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 16 May 2017
  • The person was seen on video throwing unidentifiable objects at the animal, walking up to the dog, placing a leash around its neck and then swinging the dog around by the leash.
    Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • By the time police uncovered the crawlspace in Gacy's home in 1978, Haakenson's body was unidentifiable.
    Jessica Suerth, CNN, 19 July 2017
  • Sea birds — gulls and other unidentifiable species — filled the sky with aggressive dark wings and raucous cawing.
    Joseph Hernandez, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Its subject, an unidentifiable creature, is somehow both grotesque and gentle; sleepy-eyed and floppy-eared, its arms are curled up by its face.
    The Economist, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Only Benjamin remained in the village of Portbou, buried in a now unidentifiable grave.
    Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2022
  • Eventually, the two subjects, who are unidentifiable by their faces but seem to be wearing the same clothing, appear back in frame.
    Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • His hip is apparently some unidentifiable shade of black and blue.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The staff could not draw a list of the victims because most were unidentifiable, or did not carry any documentation.
    Mujib Mashal and Jawad Sukhanyar, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2018

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