Example Sentences

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She finds him impossible, brilliant, manipulative, honest, constantly scheming, always looking out for her and inscrutably devoid of impulse control, especially for a veteran diplomat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Now you’re watching them do it in a sequel, which means you’re also watching something more inscrutably sad: karaoke of karaoke.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2018

Even in the context of the inscrutably weird Reddit community at large, commenters in the Surreal Memes subreddit comprise an alien tribe from an alternate universe.

From Slate • May 11, 2018

We went to Plage des Raisins Clairs — the beach of light grapes, inscrutably — because we’d heard that it had good food trucks.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2018

I looked at him and shook my head as he watched me inscrutably.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison