INTANGIBLE in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for INTANGIBLE, such as:

1. But these are intangible points.
2. She has that intangible quality which you might call charisma.
3. There are intangible benefits beyond a rise in the share price.
4. All was destroyed, except something intangible yet powerful and indestructible.
5. Of late there had been other signs of her disfavour, as intangible but more disquieting.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTANGIBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intangible
 a.  not able to be perceived by senses, as touch; vague
Classic Sentence:
1  Of late there had been other signs of her disfavour, as intangible but more disquieting.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  It was the same intangible, unspectacular courage that all the Wilkeses possessed, a quality which Scarlett did not understand but to which she gave grudging tribute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  They were troubled and feverish hours, disturbed with dreams that were intangible, that eluded her, leaving only an impression upon her half-awakened senses of something unattainable.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
4  This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
5  But these are intangible points.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
6  The enemy ceased firing, and that stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
7  All was destroyed, except something intangible yet powerful and indestructible.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIV
8  The dramatic form is reached when the vitality which has flowed and eddied round each person fills every person with such vital force that he or she assumes a proper and intangible esthetic life.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  One beholds floating, either in space or in one's own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the dreams of sleeping flowers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
10  Pearl either saw and responded to her mother's feelings, or herself felt the remoteness and intangibility that had fallen around the minister.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
Example Sentence:
1  There are intangible benefits beyond a rise in the share price.
2  The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
3  She has that intangible quality which you might call charisma.
4  The long-term intangible benefits of the Health Corps are immeasurable, but just as real.
5  He might have to explain colloquial English to her, but he did not have to explain the intangibles of their lives and work.
6  Common sense and creativity are some of the intangibles we're looking for in an employee.