ineffably
Example Sentences
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The L.A. hot girl archetype is at once ineffably elusive and immediately identifiable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
For Van Gogh, green wheat captured a sense of both transience and calm: “Young wheat can have something ineffably pure and gentle about it,” he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
Shakespeare — and especially his war horses like “Hamlet” and “As You Like It” — is ineffably sturdy.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
As legally sanctioned segregation ended in the 1960s, intellectuals and activists sought to describe a world in which laws had changed and yet much remained ineffably the same.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2020
Under the inmates’ surface bluster, their cruelty and selfishness, was almost always something ineffably sad.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
