indeterminable

Example Sentences

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“When this project initially comes online, there likely won’t actually be any hydrogen in the mix, so we’ll still just be burning 100% methane for potentially an indeterminable amount of time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

To Harriet’s dismay, Wikipedia describes her homeland as “an alleged nation state of indeterminable geographic location.”

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2019

During the original investigation, the Galveston medical examiner, William Korndorffer, had declared Beason’s cause of death indeterminable; but Gill-King took one look at her remains and saw that her bones had never been properly cleaned.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2018

At first, Bradley argued that testing the bandana would open the floodgates to an indeterminable amount of new evidence.

From Time • Oct. 12, 2011

But if a grownup American of indeterminable age asked her for directions, invariably speaking too quickly, she merely shrugged and smiled an inane smile.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez