inexpressibly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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He is inexpressibly affecting in depicting how desperately happy Chris is to be reunited with Anna, to whom he takes a fiercely protective attitude, out of both love and remorse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
It doesn’t even rate as a footnote as the bombs fall and families cower in bomb shelters, but there is something inexpressibly sad about seeing two of the world’s great chess-loving nations at war.
From Washington Times • Mar. 1, 2022
And he seems to have a sixth sense for what his customers, both prominent and obscure, inexpressibly crave.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2011
What binds them together – in a dark ecstasy of despair – is an inexpressibly painful event in their past, a terrible, mutual loss.
From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2011
Both her sisters, inexpressibly inferior to her, were splendidly married, each to a king.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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