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Six example sentences with ineffable, each labelled with its topic.
The last chord of that recording is ineffable, and every reviewer who tried to describe it retreated into metaphor.
Music
Standing in that chapel produces something ineffable, which is why the postcards in the gift shop always disappoint.
Art
Mystics across four traditions describe the same ineffable moment and then spend three hundred pages failing to pin it down.
Philosophy
The view from the pass at first light was ineffable, and every photograph we took looked like a postcard by comparison.
Travel
The poet circles an ineffable grief for forty pages, admitting in the last line that words have failed her.
Literature
Standing under the redwoods produces something ineffable, which is why visitors go quiet before the trail even ends.
Environment
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