Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "ineffable"

Lexicographically close words:
inedite; inedited; inedites; inedito; inedits; ineffably; ineffaceable; ineffaceably; ineffective; ineffectively
  1. First my temple service, and then five miles tramp over the tender, dewy fields, with their ineffable earthly smell, until I reach the little church at the foot of the grey-green down.

  2. Let them teach, if they please, that their God transforms himself into bread, but let them never teach that we ought to hate or destroy those who refuse to believe this ineffable mystery.

  3. What kind of being shall we contemplate, when we add to this the ineffable attributes ascribed to him in the Christian theology?

  4. By the time that she had completed it her eyes were turned upon the ground, but there was an ineffable amount of scorn expressed in the lines of her month.

  5. Lord Dumbello had remained silent one whole evening in London with ineffable disgust, because Lord Lufton had been rather particular in his attentions; but then Lord Dumbello's muteness was his most eloquent mode of expression.

  6. A smile of ineffable pleasure then seized upon his features, and with the breaking forth of the chorus he rose to joyous action.

  7. We are neither of us young things full of ineffable inanities on the subject of romance and I experienced a sober desire for all possible finality in the midst of the jumbled and painful confusion into which Fate had seen fit to cast me.

  8. Illness was the one thing lacking to my ineffable Pilgrim's Progress, so infallibly illness has appeared.

  9. The sun had just set; the silence of the sky was full to the brim with ineffable peace and beauty.

  10. The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music.

  11. Suppositions treated as too absurd to pass muster in the finite world which we inhabit, the absolute must be able to make good 'somehow' in his ineffable way.

  12. The handsome and expressive head was marked with stern powerful lines, which did not exclude an admirable air of suffering, resignation, and ineffable goodness.

  13. Transported by that ineffable hope, she rises, and lifts her eyes to heaven, clasping her hands in an attitude of fervent prayer.

  14. On this allusion, which reminded her how her poor, laborious hand had been respectfully kissed by the fair and rich patrician, the young workwoman felt a sentiment of gratitude, which was at once ineffable and proud.

  15. The handsome countenance of Djalma, doubly embellished by the mild, ineffable expression with which it had been animated whilst he was talking to the half-caste, now seemed illumined with almost divine radiance.

  16. Rose, still encircling with her right arm the waist of her sleeping sister, contemplated her with an expression of ineffable tenderness, akin to maternal; for Rose was the eldest for the day, and an elder sister is almost a mother.

  17. Djalma started, and could not restrain a cry of surprise and joy; but this almost trembling exclamation was so soft and sweet, that it seemed rather the expression of ineffable gratitude, than of exulting passion.

  18. If Adrienne's first impression at sight of Rose-Pompon had been horribly painful, reflection soon awakened doubts, which were to become shortly ineffable hopes.

  19. Having heard this answer, Djalma seated himself, and hid his face in his hands, as if completely absorbed in some ineffable meditation.

  20. You were spoken to just now of the pollution of marriage; then you are shown adultery in all its poesy, in its ineffable seductions.

  21. How she longed for the ineffable sentiments of love that she had tried to figure to herself out of books!

  22. He has not the obduracy of Lord Brock, nor the ineffable manner of Mr. Mildmay, nor the brilliant intellect of Mr. Gresham.

  23. She understood it all, and though she was moved to continual solitary tears by this ineffable tenderness, yet she rebelled against them.

  24. Or rather, in a living communion of thought and feeling, they will most intimately sympathize in this ineffable majesty, being absorbed in the never-failing stream of the infinite plenitude of divinity.

  25. She looked up at me with an ineffable expression, in which I read a trace of tears.

  26. At the door of the warehouse of Breck and Company I was greeted by the ineffable smell of groceries in which the suggestion of parched coffee prevailed.

  27. The scene was now inexpressibly terrific; cries and groans, and the ineffable roar and yell of human passion, resounded demonlike through the shade of the leafless trees.

  28. Thee I implore, Omnipotent King, Redeemer of that lost remnant whose nature Thou didst assume, ineffable and everlasting Love!

  29. All is transformed; all is a New Jerusalem--splendour, peace, ineffable and mysterious Beauty.

  30. The passion of motherhood seemed to pervade her whole yearning body, curving the soft lines to an ineffable beauty.

  31. When Father Paradis came from the chamber of death there was upon his face an expression of ineffable peace, as of one in communion with the eternal world; and his eyes had the far-away look of one who gazes upon things unseen.

  32. And when one thus gives oneself in the spirit of true devotion, one finds a peace and rest which the world cannot give, and bliss ineffable on the bosom of the divine Redeemer.

  33. I believe you," muttered Walford with a sigh of ineffable relief, as he sank back upon his pillow.

  34. Hereupon Ioasaph awoke out of sleep, but his soul was still full of that light and ineffable glory; and greatly wondering, he raised to his Lord a song of thanksgiving.

  35. Both sang because they suffered, sang ineffable and ironic melodies; both will endure because of their brave sincerity, their surpassing art.

  36. Is it this sky's vast vault or ocean's sound, That is Life's self and draws my life from me, And by instinct ineffable decree Holds my breath Quailing on the bitter bound?

  37. She continued to look up at the heaped golden clouds, at the infinite depth of the blue, blue sky, at the ineffable clarity of the light, pouring in through the great round opening.

  38. Neale felt himself relax in an ineffable content, and knew by contrast how anxious he had been.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ineffable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    awesome; awful; delightful; divine; exceptional; extraordinary; fabulous; heavenly; holy; incommunicable; indefinable; indescribable; ineffable; inexpressible; inviolable; inviolate; legendary; marvelous; mystical; mythical; nameless; noteworthy; phenomenal; portentous; prodigious; religious; remarkable; sacred; sacrosanct; spiritual; stupefying; stupendous; unexampled; unmentionable; unparalleled; unprecedented; unspeakable; untouchable; unutterable; venerable; wonderful