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to an inexpressible degree
she was looking very young tonight, and, as usual, indescribably beautiful, in a simple strapless dress of a green and white silky cotton
How To Use inexpressibly In A Sentence
- The jokes were inexpressibly awful.
- Observe, God's eternal love or good-will towards his creatures is the fountain whence all his mercies vouch-safed to us proceed; and that love of God is great love, and that mercy of his is rich mercy, inexpressibly great and inexhaustibly rich. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- The work has its longueurs, but it is worth waiting around for this inexpressibly limpid and lovely solo.
- The thing which might have been mistaken for a tricycle turned upside-down was the inexpressibly important instrument to which the corkscrew was the key. The Ball and the Cross
- The problem, inexpressibly sad as it is to have to say it, is that you're better served to listen to my "pontification" than that of the legitimate Pontiff, because I am, in my very limited way, saying what HE should be saying, but isn't. Clarification
- Rue looked at him with a little dismay; she was inexpressibly grateful for him, but she was unused to speaking in fervencies. The Glass Slipper
- While I can imagine that he might value his daughter's ridicule of the undignified and embarrassing aspects of his final illness as a farcical, tragicomic gag at his own expense, I believe that he would be "inexpressibly sad," a phrase he used, for the world to learn that he died unliked and unloved by one of his own children. A Roaring Literary Lion
- something inexpressibly taking in his manner
- The problem, inexpressibly sad as it is to have to say it, is that you're better served to listen to my "pontification" than that of the legitimate Pontiff, because I am, in my very limited way, saying what HE should be saying, but isn't. Clarification