Example sentences for: ineffable

How can you use “ineffable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • God's ineffable name as told to Moses is unutterable [Exodus 6:3] so why make an issue of it?

  • There are compelling grotesqueries--"The Fatal Flower Garden," by Nelstone's Hawaiians--and items of ineffable grandeur, such as the hymn "," by the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers.

  • Style is an ineffable creature--what can't be seen can always be felt.

  • Hawthorne gives Winslow an air of gorgeously ineffable sadness; he seems to carry on his ever shakier shoulders the knowledge that this gray way of life, this England, is doomed.

  • The context: replying to a question about the ineffable deterrent value of the death penalty.


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