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

Is this the definition of true luxury — things just being ineffably, subtly yet marvelously better than usual?

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 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

And, in an extension of Siah Armajani’s traveling survey at the Met Breuer, the Public Art Fund installed that artist’s ineffably poetic “Bridge Over Tree” on the East River between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2019

Under the inmates’ surface bluster, their cruelty and selfishness, was almost always something ineffably sad.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover