Example Sentences

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So much of great writing when I read it is naming the unnameable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

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

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2021

All through the next year that unnameable guilt dogged me, until I longed for Lent to come.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2019

When the dancers adopt them, you see an unnameable emotional state take form.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2015

Out of it came a stench, not the sickly odour of decay in the meads of Morgul, but a foul reek, as if filth unnameable were piled and hoarded in the dark within.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien