Example Sentences

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Gavin Brown, Jafa’s gallerist and now a partner at Gladstone, said the artist had hinted at this work, inchoately.

From New York Times • May 27, 2021

Or go right back to the origins of performance at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916 when the Dadaist poet Hugo Ball babbled inchoately at the nighthawks of Zurich.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2015

It’s not that I didn’t make my share of mistakes, or act stupidly and inchoately, but it was embarrassing, not traumatizing.

From Newsweek • Mar. 20, 2015

The way that we address it, whether coherently or inchoately, is in turn musical.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2013

The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers