inscrutable

Example Sentences

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Customers complain of language barriers and agents with inscrutable accents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Melania, the documentary about the First Lady, is a lot like its subject: extremely expensive and fundamentally inscrutable.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

Pegula described the inscrutable Rybakina as "cool as a cucumber".

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

He sat and stared at his screen, positioned away from the audience, as inscrutable as someone at a cafe working on a laptop.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

The scythe looked at her with those cold, inscrutable gray eyes.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman