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
When it opened in Connecticut, The Drag was a success with audiences, although Variety called it “an inexpressibly brutal and vulgar attempt to capitalise on a dirty matter for profit”.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2017
As Red Smith might have put it, only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic, can ever be plausible again, etc., etc.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2017
There was something inexpressibly sad in his eyes.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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