How To Use Undefinable In A Sentence

  • Slang is almost by definition undefinable, deliberately outside the dictionary.
  • She has an undefinable quality and she stands for dignity and respect.
  • Defining the undefinable is their dirty job, and they have my sympathy. Definitions and manifestos
  • The best journalists are often those who bring the undefinable, the intangible, to their work.
  • Theodore Brandeis 'roseleaf skin, and over, and above all these, weaving in and out through the whole, an expression or cast -- a vague, undefinable thing which we call a resemblance -- that could only have come from the woman of the picture, Theodore Brandeis' wife, Olga. Fanny Herself
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  • Thus they form a heterogeneous assemblage of liquid hydrocarbons, of which naphtha and maltha may be said to form the extremes, and which have little in common, except their undefinable name. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
  • While they haven't completely gone in a new direction, their sound just continues to evolve in an increasingly complex, and previously undefinable way.
  • The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into realm of the undefinable.
  • It's very cleverly done, but with an undefinable innocence that suggests the dewy-eyed thrill of very early pop, beaches and bikinis.
  • But if you cannot even be bothered to look up the term on your own, and are so proud of your ignorance that you dismiss it out of hand as 'undefinable' or 'just a word', the discussion is pointless. "How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?"
  • In truth, however, their relationship is undefinable, the only truth found not in explanation but description.
  • The shuffling enigma, head occasionally cocked in bird-like inquisitiveness, befriends his fellow patients to mesmerising and medically undefinable effect.
  • She has an undefinable quality and she stands for dignity and respect.
  • The subtle, ungraspable, undefinable but so vital and crucially important factors are more similar to energy than to matter, hence the name life-energy, life force.
  • Come November, U.S. voters, after well over two centuries, still will not elect to the presidency a Black person who is the descendant of "we the people" who were enslaved not long ago in the U.S.A. These descendants are the Black American people, the group of Blacks whom Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui somehow has come to deem "undefinable" or "unmentionable", or who somehow should not be singled out n view of our long historical existence, lest in some way we might be seen as an "elite. BHM (Black History Month)
  • If so, written constitutions are worse than useless; they are not obligatory, there is no penalty for their violation; obedience to them cannot be enforced; there is no government but that of opinion, fluctuating and uncertain, undefined and undefinable, which is paramount to the fundamental law. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • I bashed and pulled the broomstick railings out, revealing the sawed off bottoms of the old balusters and a thick layer of paint and something undefinable (distemper, maybe) in between them.
  • Throughout his career, Kenton pursued a Quixote-like quest for a kind of undefinable art music that, in his own eyes, he never achieved although the symphony-sized "Neophonic" orchestra of the mid-'60s probably came closest. A Restless Soul Revealed
  • So its interesting that force is accepted as an elemental "undefinable" term and the ground of mechanics, and that not on the basis of what we observe passively but in terms of our own actions. But it's not Science!
  • In both traditions it is undefinable and unexplainable, elusive, frustratingly near and far, always so close yet just outside intellect's reach.
  • To savour that undefinable feeling and sense of satisfaction when the final whistle blew almost makes the trials and tribulation of recent days worthwhile.
  • They're one of those "undefinable" bands - they call themselves when they have to "Folkgrass" - some kind of cross between folk music and bluegrass. My Fun Filled Friday Night
  • He had a great respect for the priesthood, and has left many a charming and sympathetic picture of the parish _cure_, such as l'Abbe Janvier in "Le Medecin de Campagne," who acts hand in hand with the good doctor Benassis, as an enlightened benefactor to the poor; or l'Abbe Bonnet, the hero of "Le Cure du Village," whose face had "the impress of faith, an impress giving the stamp of the human greatness which approaches most nearly to divine greatness, and of which the undefinable expression beautifies the most ordinary features. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
  • Slang is almost by definition undefinable, deliberately outside the dictionary.

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