inexpressible

Example Sentences

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“Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023

Let’s hope it works, because the alternatives are literally inexpressible.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023

Like those pilots, in Vietnam I connected and cried with people I'd never met, people who live on the other side of the world and who endured inexpressible suffering.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2022

This includes what can be expressed and what is inexpressible, what leaders should or should not tell people and the whole inexplicable issue of worthiness and sacrifice for common good.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2020

Harry felt an inexpressible sense of gratitude to Dumbledore for asking the others not to question him.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling