incommunicable
Example Sentences
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Mr. Dyer remained a dutiful son but, sensing that part of his life was now incommunicable to his parents, withheld his most important feelings from them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Auden and William Carlos Williams, because it depicts, with brutal humor, a simple fact that most of us are loath to acknowledge: Suffering is incommunicable.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020
Her new book, “Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children,” is a ravishing novel charged with the idea of the incommunicable.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2018
Flanagan said that he and his five siblings grew up “children of the Death Railway. We carried in consequence many incommunicable things.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 15, 2014
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
