indefinable

Example Sentences

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That is what cinema is all about, an indefinable presence, faces full of expression, voices that cannot be easily replicated, eyes that channel energy that can move and frighten and surprise us.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

It expresses a general anxiety the prompt of which is indefinable, a nagging sense that has no singularly compelling explanation.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024

A certain indefinable, know-it-when-you-hear-it sense of reverence and good cheer?

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2023

The crushing of the belief that the Seattle ballclub, by dint of some indefinable flaw in their DNA, would always wilt and wither in crunchtime.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

There was a new quiet feeling and an indefinable smell, new and faintly fragrant.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith