indefinable

Example Sentences

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He had that indefinable, invisible glow that changes the atmosphere and draws people in, like a sub-lethal dose of radiation.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

Patinkin, in an indefinable accent, is his usual Big Presence, but Beane holds her own, and the arrival of Linda Emond as Interpol agent Hilde Eriksen pays constant comic dividends.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2024

And that work, which exists in some indefinable terrain between off-the-rack categories like “traditional” and “modern,” is truly magnetic.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2022

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

Nothing material, not a hair-pin on a dressing-table, not an empty bottle of aspirin tablets, not a handkerchief beneath a pillow, but something indefinable, a moment of our lives, a thought, a mood.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier