How To Use Inexpressible In A Sentence
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Information of your being lost, beame an inexpressible Affliction.
Exilius
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The feeling of regain treasure is inexpressible.
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The fallen leader's statues often go down with him, like the scapegoat cast out at the year's end, a focus for normally inexpressible feelings of violence.
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It was inexpressible, naturally, but they all knew it: they were intimidated.
THE SCAR
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When I look upon these people who are being trained with this attitude, and work up a good sweat with them, I feel a sort of inexpressible sorrow along with a great responsibility.
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Your enemy will on the instant feel a certain inexpressible and cutting anguish of the heart, together with an agued chilliness and failure throughout the body.
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It was inexpressible, naturally, but they all knew it: they were intimidated.
THE SCAR
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley
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To which he replied in choked accents which yet could not conceal the inexpressible elation of his heart:
The Filigree Ball
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To his inexpressible relief, the fledgling came back into sight, still flying in a broad circle, rather than striking off to the east.
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the inexpressible, unpaintable `tick' in the unconscious
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The news filled him with inexpressible delight/joy/horror/pain.
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It seemed to speak of an intense pressure, a little circle of unending pain, unreachable and inexpressible, utterly private.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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He felt a sudden inexpressible loneliness.
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Any ale drapers and mutton mongers at the back should sit up straight and stop fiddling with their inexpressibles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Help us to give our hearts to you so that you can fill us with your inexpressible joy.
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These latter habiliments, impregnated with the wet of the day, but the dirt of a life, and lined with what another foot traveller in these parts call "rammish clowns," evolved rank vapours and compound odours inexpressible, in steaming clouds.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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It would only be used to contain an inexpressible evil, or uncontrollable force.
SABRIEL
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I could wish, indeed, that the word scold might be changed for some more gentle term, of equal signification; because I am convinced, that the very name is as offensive to female ears, as the effects of that incurable distemper are to the ears of the men; which, to be sure, is inexpressible.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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The news filled him with inexpressible delight/joy/horror/pain.
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He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow.
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He testified faithfully to God's glory and knew the inexpressible joy that ensues from such testimony, but how was his testimony received?
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Inexpressible were the anguish and confusion of the defendant, when she found herself thus entrapped, and reflected, that she was on the point of being detected of felony; for she at once concluded, that the snare was laid for her, and knew that the officer of justice would certainly find the unlucky watch in one of the drawers of her scrutoire.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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The news filled him with inexpressible delight/joy/horror/pain.
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I found, to my inexpressible satisfaction, the shopkeeper was my countryman.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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inexpressible anguish
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How inexpressible the fullness of my heart when I knew that thou wert still my friend amidst it all - I could only exclaim Heaven bless thy pure heart, thy generous soul.
Letter from Mary Houston to Young John Allen,September 14, 1855
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She had laughed, so close to tears, so close to letting the hollow gaping wound surface and sweep her away in a wave of inexpressible rage.
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In these contexts it's not so much a word struggling to express the inexpressible as a word used to sound good and to avoid real thinking.
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Her untamed sexuality, her unknowable desires, her inexpressible emotions, frighten and drive him further away.
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And this impression is greatly helped by the fantastical finery of his dress: sky-blue satin cravat, yards of gold chain, white French gloves, light drab great-coat lined with velvet of the same colour, invisible inexpressibles, skin-coloured and fitting like a glove, etc., etc.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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On the day of the wedding, I remember dressing in that pink dress with inexpressible joy, for it was the moment I had been waiting for since the seamstress had first measured me for my clothing.
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The epilogue catches perfectly the endless withdrawing melancholy of summer evenings in the high north, when pleasure goes on so long it turns into an inexpressible sadness.
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It filled his soul again with inexpressible joy and pleasure, as if everything else seemed dark by comparison with that infinite brilliance and radiant light-for it was night.
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He attributes the decline of literary style in great part to the poetry of World War I, which tried to describe inexpressible horrors as bluntly and simply as possible.
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When sound and music are rendered, something previously inexpressible can be revealed, and the concert hall can become a site to engage our desires and fantasy lives.
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What is inexpressible in words may seem even further removed from any kind of visualization.
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His face seemed simply to be expanding with inexpressible rage, but then he began to change.
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'Have you never observed through my inexpressibles a large prominency circa genitalia?' he inquired with exquisite delicacy of a colleague.
Archive 2004-03-01
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Mr. Finch is the most sedate young man I have ever seen; -- but his sedateness is temper'd with a _sweetness_ inexpressible; -- a certain mildness in the features; -- _a mildness_ which, in the countenance of that great commander I saw at Brandon Lodge, appears like _mercy_ sent out from the heart to discover the dwelling of _true courage_.
Barford Abbey
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He has so much, grandeur, his appearance is imposing and in general His Divine countenance overflows with heavenly grace and an inexpressible ultramundane beauty.
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The news filled him with inexpressible delight/joy/horror/pain.
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The daily grind of nastiness and spite, of uncaring and uninterest, the dull fog of low-grade terror is close to inexpressible.
National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week: The four big lies.
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It is this potential for music to express contradictory, sometimes inexpressible emotions that drives Ward to write songs.
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Their ride brings them inexpressible glee and joy.
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Her new born female child inherited a terrible, inexpressible fear, that someone, somewhere, was buried alive.
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I shrieked, my voice quaking with inexpressible wrath.
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Scotch, the sorriest of jargons, compared with which even Roth Welsch is dignified and expressive, has yet one word to express what would be inexpressible by any word or combination of words in any language, or in any other jargon in the world; and very properly; for as the nonsense is properly Scotch, so should the word be Scotch which expresses it -- that word is "fushionless," pronounced
The Romany Rye
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It seemed to speak of an intense pressure, a little circle of unending pain, unreachable and inexpressible, utterly private.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow.
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Suddenly it stood still to an inexpressible feeling that thrilled it through, and passed at once to my head and extremities.
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It would only be used to contain an inexpressible evil, or uncontrollable force.
SABRIEL
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The inexpressible grief of the family of the murdered boy will never cease.
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The darkness of their own mind and inexpressible vanity, -- wherein I place the principal effect of our apostasy from God, -- do disenable, hinder, and divert them from such apprehensions.
Pneumatologia
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It may be that in harping in highest exultation how they had won to, and touched, the Path Ambrosial – the Amataŋ Padaŋ40 – Nibbana, they implied some state inconceivable to thought, inexpressible by language, while the one and the other are limited to concepts and terms of life; and yet a state which, while not in time or space, positively constitutes the sequel of the glorious and blissful days of this life's residuum.
Psalms of the Sisters
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Refinement of the language and surprising imagery are ways to evoke the inexpressible.
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The news filled him with inexpressible delight/joy/horror/pain.
