Example Sentences

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“The American story is wild, uncapturable and discomfiting, and our fiction — our literature — is poised to challenge and deeply change us as it becomes ever more inclusive and ecocentric.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2021

There’s a touch of Wile E. Coyote in Doof’s endless -inators and more than a little Road Runner in his silent, uncapturable platypus foil.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2015

The old-fashioned high-falutin' phrase is the best description I can give of the elusive uncapturable nature of this wife of mine.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

To-night these visions were uncapturable, and beyond the darkness they had forsaken stretched a terrifying void and beyond the void was nothing but light that seemed to have the power of thinking, "I am Truth!"

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

"I used to love haymaking," said Pauline, feeling a little wistful for some of those simple joys that now seemed uncapturable again.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton