uncommunicable

Example Sentences

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But Bernard Levin, writing in The London Observer that same year, noted that “as a communication of the uncommunicable, ‘Conundrum’ is very good indeed.”

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2020

But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

She smiled, but the smile only gave you a new thrill; it was vacant and had no joy in it, rather an uncommunicable grief.

From Marm Lisa by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Schubert at once assumed what was intended to be a sly look, of uncommunicable knowledge.

From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot

Methinks his spirit remains here as well as that dust, which, uncommunicable though it be, is more precious in its nothingness than aught else widowed earth clasps to her sorrowing bosom.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft