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

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

He exists in what one might call a "problem space" that is singular, novel and largely incommunicable.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2011

That I was not dueling with Argaven, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin