Example Sentences

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The novel is one of the most vital cultural resources we have--a private, potent means of sharing the unspeakableness of daily life with one another.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are enjoying your story with our usual unspeakableness; and I'm right glad you threw in the shipwreck and the mystery—I like it.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

But when she lifted her big kind hazel eyes to him, the earnestness of her emotion made them pathetic, as the unspeakableness of her pleasures often did.

From Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)