UNSPEAKABLE in a Sentence

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In life, we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNSPEAKABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unspeakable
 a.  defying expression or description
 a.  too sacred to be uttered
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  He always has been and now he's unspeakable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  To grope down into the bottom of the sea after them; to have one's hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
3  Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it was to no purpose.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
4  It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor about it, such as may lurk in the vicinity of funereal pyres.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
5  I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
6  Some talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were advancing with relentless curses and chewing tobacco with unspeakable valor; tremendous bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping along like the Huns.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  He eyed the story-teller with unspeakable wonder.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  Into the unspeakable jumble in the roadway rode a squadron of cavalry.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
9  The private felt a sudden unspeakable indignation against his officer.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
10  Some arrows of scorn that had buried themselves in his heart had generated strange and unspeakable hatred.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
11  But there he would sit, with a blank entranced expression on his face, like a person losing his mind, and listen, or seem to listen, to the unspeakable thing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  Sharp soft waves of unspeakable pleasure washed over her as he entered her, and started the curious molten thrilling that spread and spread till she was carried away with the last, blind flush of extremity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
13  He is accused of all unspeakable things and curiously enough, the woman has managed to get the bulk of the colliers' wives behind her, gruesome fish, and the village is putrescent with talk.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  It was sheer, unspeakable, impotent hate.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
15  It would have been an unspeakable indulgence.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  The assassination is a terrible, terrible, unspeakable loss for his family and friends.
2  In life, we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.