Example Sentences

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A battle sequence is clumsily staged, with Mary, on horseback, looking on inexpressively, like an actress waiting for direction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2018

My father often said funny things without cracking a smile and could listen to them just as inexpressively.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

The bishop frequently used strange, and to me unintelligible expressions; disgusting from any man, but from him inexpressively offensive and odious; yet the full import of them I did not so much as suspect.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

Fowey said something inexpressively cynical about the resemblance of the scene below to a congregation of bacilli crawling upon a slide beneath a microscope.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

As for her parents, she fancied her mother's taking it stolidly and inexpressively; but her father, ah, that would be a different matter!

From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)