How to Use inscrutable in a Sentence

inscrutable

adjective
Definition of inscrutablenext
Synonyms for inscrutablenext
  • He was a quiet, inscrutable man.
  • But Texas tends to be as inscrutable as Sims in the second half of games.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2021
  • But the dads most of us grew up with — and without — are a more inscrutable lot.
    — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 19 June 2017
  • At times, her words were inscrutable and even volatile.
    — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
  • But time and again, Carol proves to be an inscrutable hero.
    — Stephanie Merry, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The plan to recruit more of the touched to Amalia True’s inscrutable mission isn’t going so hot.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2021
  • But the rest of the lymphatic system was more inscrutable.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2021
  • Ruscha’s gas-station signs and Warhol’s soup cans are inscrutable.
    — The New Yorker, 21 July 2021
  • There are times when the inner workings of the White House can feel inscrutable to outsiders.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Teenage schoolgirls on a class trip go missing in the harsh and inscrutable wilderness.
    — Vulture, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Now, the entire island people called paradise is the inscrutable view of a city laid to waste.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
  • But for all the detail, Manafort the man remains inscrutable.
    — Mary Louise Kelly, idahostatesman, 2 Apr. 2018
  • All that’s left to decide is what Leonard—one of the most inscrutable players in the league—really wants.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 24 June 2019
  • Zadok walks down his stairs, wearing jeans and an inscrutable look under the hood of a sweatshirt.
    — The New Yorker, 6 July 2021
  • Waugh stares at his Zoom camera for a good few seconds with an inscrutable smile.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Elizabeth, inscrutable even in her younger years, gives her a long look.
    — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • In a suburban office park, the signs aren’t so inscrutable.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2022
  • Even then, Kruger is somewhat inscrutable on this aspect of her work.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2022
  • No matter their length, sometimes the meanings of the stories remain inscrutable at the end.
    — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • The degree to which some patents are inscrutable is comical.
    — Stephen Key, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • And yet there is a dimension to some people that seems inscrutable.
    — John Blake, CNN, 12 May 2018
  • To some in the audience, the writing appeared inscrutable.
    — Andrew Pantazi, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Finally, a chance to plumb through the grim depths of A&E without needing to parse through any inscrutable genre tags!
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 18 June 2021
  • And yet, for maybe the first time since that day, the question of who commissioned her killing no longer appears so inscrutable.
    — Alexander Clapp, 1843, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Streaming is an inscrutable black box, about which so many stories might be told.
    — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • But the message was so inscrutable that the mystery only deepened.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 28 June 2018
  • At that moment, Whitney looks at him, and the camera holds on her face, and her look becomes inscrutable.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The show brought me back to my early pandemic sense of time as something shaky, even inscrutable.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Jack White often prefers the inscrutable, twisty gesture over the obvious, spell-it-out one.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Like the city itself, the building was a dichotomy: inscrutable and hard on the outside, but warm and open within.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022

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