Example Sentences

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Haring couldn’t change the way people stared at single Black mothers, and she couldn’t heal whatever unnamable pain had plagued the woman who died.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2021

When I think back on that period of my life, what I recall most viscerally is an unnamable sense of dread.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2017

Tim Burton’s earlier Batman movies may have seemed lighter on the surface, but they were more deeply infused with sadness, of an almost unnamable kind.

From Time • Aug. 2, 2016

Consultants like Morris have worked hard to convince leaders in both parties that they should ignore the better angels of our nature and speak directly to our unnamable fears and desires.

From Salon • May 15, 2016

I do not search Mexican graveyards for ties to unnamable ancestors.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez