INARTICULATE in a Sentence

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Reading his dismissal in her eyes, he held out his hand with a gesture which conveyed something of this inarticulate conflict.

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 Meanings and Examples of INARTICULATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inarticulate
 a.  speechless; without or deprived of the use of speech or words
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  His first rush of inarticulate resentment had been followed by a steadiness and concentration of tone more disconcerting to Lily than the excitement preceding it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
4  Gerty Farish had opposed the plan with all the energy of her somewhat inarticulate nature.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
5  She had in truth never seen him so shaken out of his usual glibness; and there was something almost moving to her in his inarticulate struggle with his emotions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
6  Reading his dismissal in her eyes, he held out his hand with a gesture which conveyed something of this inarticulate conflict.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
7  It is probable that the agitated citizen has within his circle at least one inarticulate rebel with aspirations as wayward as Carol's.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  She broke continually into shouts of a wild, inarticulate, and sometimes piercing music.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
11  Her sobs broke out afresh, and she murmured some inarticulate thanks to me for not having driven her away from the door.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
12  Always inarticulate and stifled.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD
13  Then, with an inarticulate roar of fury, the prisoner wrenched himself free from Holmes's grasp, and hurled himself through the window.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
14  He saw her lips formed into a no, though the sound was inarticulate, but her face was like scarlet.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  The cries, which had sunk down into a hoarse, inarticulate shouting, came from the room which we had first visited.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
Example Sentence:
1  He became inarticulate with rage and uttered sounds without meaning.