ineffably

Example Sentences

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And yet in these moments, for reasons as tough to articulate as they are to shake off, it feels ineffably, unmistakably ours.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2022

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