indistinct

Example Sentences

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Yet from that painful personal source emerges something unfortunately indistinct, as though softly blanketed by the snow that sifts slowly down during this holiday drama.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Otherwise, Doug Liman’s 2005 action comedy is a slight distraction – fun, but indistinct.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2024

This galaxy, AzTECC71, was first detected as an indistinct blob of dust emission by a camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii that sees in wavelengths between far infrared and microwave.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023

The first weeks after a sperm fertilises an egg is a period of dramatic change - from a collection of indistinct cells to something that eventually becomes recognisable on a baby scan.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2023

An indistinct reply echoed from a doorway at the back of the room.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss