How to Use unspeakable in a Sentence

unspeakable

adjective
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  • The weight of the unsaid and the unspeakable, the lost and the left out, hangs over the poem’s head.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The unspeakable tragedy of that night didn’t end there.
    — Abigail Haworth, Marie Claire, 1 July 2019
  • There are shades of It in the unspeakable evil that presents itself over the course of The Outsider.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 May 2018
  • Strength is the voice of community and love in the face of the unspeakable.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2017
  • That’s when the visions would end, the brain editing out the unspeakable parts.
    — New York Times, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The Walking Dead, now two-thirds of the waythrough its 11th and final season, has done the unspeakable.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Even in the face of unspeakable heartache, its limbs reach outward and upward.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The families of the children have shared tributes in the wake of this unspeakable tragedy.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024
  • For a survivor of the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust, the ordeal did not stop when the war ended.
    — Liesbeth Heenk, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2022
  • He has, of course, been tortured, in the usual, unspeakable hell.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Nov. 2022
  • New Yorkers have seen all kinds of unspeakable things in the city's waters.
    — WSJ, 12 July 2022
  • Life is hard and messy and full of unspeakable horrors and the wildest, most ordinary joys.
    — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 21 May 2018
  • Jimmy’s dad hopes that something good can come out of the unspeakable loss.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The footage made clear that the deaths were horrific and the suffering unspeakable.
    — Marc Fisher and Naomi Nix, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • That means the Losers Club must confront the horrors of its past and put an end to the unspeakable evil that has terrorized the town for so long.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 July 2019
  • That character led him to speak out against the unspeakable.
    — Christine Flowers, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 July 2017
  • Saying what for so long had been something that was very unspeakable to me.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The murder of so fine a public servant has been an unspeakable agony for this city.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The promise of a saner day, one cleansed and informed by unspeakable tragedy.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Since the beginning of this case, our hearts have been with the families of the 36 victims that died in this unspeakable tragedy.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • But today the house is a reminder of unspeakable tragedy, silent except for the lapping waves and the wind outside.
    — Stephanie Bauer, PEOPLE.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Watch the series to find out all of the gritty details of the unspeakable crime, how the conviction came to be, and where Kelly is now.
    — Katey Clifford, al, 5 July 2020
  • These Winter Street folk had made their way north, away from unspeakable horrors in their states of birth.
    — Susanna Ashton, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
  • The mounds of flowers and gifts at the foot of the crosses are 2 feet tall -- a tangible expression of unspeakable grief.
    — Claire Galofaro, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
  • Equal Pay Day — a day that comes in the midst of unspeakable tragedy and turmoil in our country — pass without remark.
    — Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Time, 4 June 2020
  • There seemed to be a sense of rising unspeakable dangers to children.
    — Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In the wake of unspeakable tragedies like the Las Vegas shooting, people find solace and wisdom in the words of their leaders.
    — John Patrick Pullen, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2017
  • And there were people in that room – first of all, of tremendous grief, unspeakable frustration and anger.
    — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The film follows leaders of the most powerful nations at the G7 Summit who get lost in the woods—and face unspeakable horrors.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Ngannou will do so though against a backdrop of unspeakable tragedy following the death earlier this year of his beloved 15-month-old son Kobe.
    — Patrick Snell, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024

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