Example Sentences

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This simultaneous ubiquity and unspeakability is the thrumming pulse under Alice Winn’s glorious, addictive debut, “In Memoriam.”

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

And you can just hear in that how there was a sense of shame about what was happening and an unspeakability.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2021

And then when words break through unspeakability, what was tolerated by a society sometimes becomes intolerable.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2017

Academic notions of the unspeakability of historical horrors become very immediate in the face of a child.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2012