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"Unspeakable" in a Sentence (21 examples)
We have to imagine what it would be like for our family, for our children, if the unspeakable happened to us.
Fadil forced Dania to perform unspeakable acts on him.
Police encountered a scene of unspeakable carnage.
The United States lives parasitically off the people and resources of Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa while subjecting their peoples to unspeakable atrocities.
Yanni showed unspeakable violence.
French troops committed unspeakable atrocities in Algeria.
Prisoners in Guantanamo were subjected to unspeakable torture.
The Rhodesian SAS were battle-hardened and extremely skilled. The also committed unspeakable crimes in Africa.
The Rhodesian SAS were part of the British SAS and they committed unspeakable crimes in Rhodesia.
Algerians suffered unspeakable cruelty during the French colonization.
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1855-1882, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, book xv, The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows.
It is true that during the first week hardly a day passed that Erskine did not address himself to Watt, on the subject of Watt's duties. But in the first week Watt's words had not yet begun to fail him, or Watt's world to become unspeakable.
The miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the unspeakable and filthy pleasures in which they delighted.
an unspeakable fool
an unspeakable play
Yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape; and in its mouldy, disintegrating apparel an unspeakable quality that chilled me even more.
Anyone who goes into a voting booth on November the 8th and comes out saying, “I feel a hundred percent great about what I just did in there!,” is either lying to themselves, or did something unspeakable in that booth! And that means, as uncomfortable as this is, everyone has to own the floors of whoever you vote for, whether they are a lying handsy narcissistic sociopath, a hawkish Wall Street-friendly embodiment of everything that some people can’t stand about politics, an ill-tempered mountain molester with a radical dangerous tax plan that even he can’t defend, or a conspiracy-pandering political neophyte with no clear understanding of how government operates and who once recorded this folk rap about the virtues of bicycling.
an instance of an unspeakable type
unspeakable field names
Near-synonym: unthinkable
The longer we don't speak about the unspeakables, the more harm they do to the relationship.
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