Example Sentences

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That’s how I think he’ll be remembered here: as kind of aloof, brilliant, bold, strong and very unembraceable.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2022

The unspecificity of the FBI's warning tends to incite panic--so darkly imaginative does the mind become when it attempts to embrace the unembraceable.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, the shrewd little oyster responds to its environment, clasping a twig with claws or cementing itself to an unembraceable host in accordance as contingencies insist.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)