INCONCLUSIVE in sample sentences

"Beatrice, your results were inconclusive," she says.

Veronica Roth -- Divergent

I was surprised to find, now that my prize was within my grasp, how inconclusive its attainment seemed.

H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man

During these days, in a rambling, inconclusive way, I thought much of the curate and of the manner of his death.

H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds

Gun B had a partial print on it that was inconclusive.

Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes

In short, the evidence is inconclusive.

Homer -- The Odyssey

We all conferred that night, but inconclusively.

John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids

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It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.

Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

Lyons," said I, as I rose from this long and inconclusive interview, "you are taking a very great responsibility and putting yourself in a very false position by not making an absolutely clean breast of all that you know.

Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles

He had always regarded thoughts and words as inconclusive, but a material shape was that which he had spent his life escaping: a commitment.

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

The treatment protocol was long and elaborate and—worst of all—maddeningly inconclusive.

Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

This invention was bound to be inconclusive, for both figures were needed later in the saga—Paris must kill Akhilleus, and Menelaos must take Helen home at last.

Homer -- The Iliad

Every clan chief had one of their magicians examine it, and all agreed that as evidence it was inconclusive.

Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr

He talked thus inconclusively until at last I felt my temper going.

H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau

Finally, we have the evidence of a combination of facts very suggestive, though, I admit, inconclusive.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov

If it was about time and passing years or himself or town or just the general inconclusive way God ran the world, he listened warmly, comfortably, secretly, for it was usually Dad talking.

Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

So far as he had had experience of women at all, it had been tentative, intermittent, and somewhat inconclusive.

James Hilton -- Lost Horizon

I was so slow to find anything that he had plenty of time, after a minute, to continue with his suggestive but inconclusive smile: "You know, my dear, that for a fellow to be with a lady ALWAYS—!"

Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw

On the morning of his return from his inconclusive journey, he learned that Fermina Daza was spending her honeymoon in Europe, and his agitated heart took it for granted that she would live there, if not forever then for many years to come.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

But what could I say, considering my condition? I wanted to tell him that statistical evidence of the kind he was quoting from was by nature inconclusive and misleading.

Don DeLillo -- White Noise

The autopsy on Jill was inconclusive, and the cause of death had not been determined.

Nicholas Sparks -- Nights in Rodanthe

CHAPTER X The heat had leapt forward in the last hour, the street was deserted as if a catastrophe had cleaned off humanity during the inconclusive talk.

E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India

If all hypotheses cannot be tested, then the results of any experiment are inconclusive and the entire scientific method falls short of its goal of establishing proven knowledge.

Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Humanity dealt with this inconclusively with their early Als.

Dan Simmons -- Hyperion

The evidence they got was inconclusive.

Nevil Shute -- On the Beach

We looked on, waiting patiently—there was nothing else to do till the end of the flood; but it was only after a long silence, when he said, in a hesitating voice, "I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit," that we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow’s inconclusive experiences.

Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

The magazine was folded open to a page on which there was a sketch of a bearded man, the lines rough, inconclusive, as if drawn from an obscure description.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

The extent of her injuries made the tests for sexual activity inconclusive.

J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death

There was some news, but all of it was maddeningly inconclusive.

Stephen King -- Cujo

However inconclusive, the articles did help Jeremy clarify his own thoughts.

Nicholas Sparks -- True Believer

Yet the autopsy will be inconclusive.

Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln

They last only a short time, the results are often inconclusive, and they are remembered… on paper.

Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

He was the same doctor who was treating Alex, but he couldn’t tell her when Alex would wake and said that the CAT scans were inconclusive.

Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven

Kehaar had had a violent quarrel with a kestrel, screaming insults in a voice fit to startle a Cornish harbor: and although it had ended inconclusively, the kestrel seemed likely to regard the neighborhood of the hanger with healthy respect for the future.

Richard Adams -- Watership Down

There’s an inconclusive print on the trigger’probably smudged when your suspect dropped it, but I can’t say that for certain.

Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes

I don’t understand—how could inconclusive test results be dangerous?—but I still nod.

Veronica Roth -- Divergent

No lights were visible on shore, but as there were no towns and few roads in the district that evidence was inconclusive.

Nevil Shute -- On the Beach

"They were inconclusive," I say softly.

Veronica Roth -- Divergent

He and I both transferred from Erudite, only his aptitude test was inconclusive.

Veronica Roth -- Divergent

I said it was certainly inconclusive, and asked if the names Karakal and Shangri-La had meant anything to the American.

James Hilton -- Lost Horizon

Every sighting of him was inconclusive.

James Patterson -- 1st to Die

The photos, the sightings were inconclusive.

James Patterson -- 1st to Die

He had spent hours at the police station, his first stop after leaving Alex’s house, scrutinizing the enlarged fingerprint that had been on Gun B. An inconclusive one; one that he’d assumed, lazily, to be Peter’s.

Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes

Half-grown children would come to class from the barricades, smelling of gunpowder, wearing the insignias and uniforms of rebel officers captured at gunpoint in inconclusive battles, and carrying their regulation weapons in full view at their waists.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

The men who, through the decades of their careers, had relied for their security upon keeping their faces blank, their words inconclusive and their clothes impeccable, were thrown off-key by the sweaters stretched over their stomachs, by the mufflers wound about their necks, by the sound of coughing that cut through the discussion too frequently, like the rattle of a machine gun.

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

...to use the word all is evidently a fallacious mode of speech; for this word is sometimes used distributively, and sometimes collectively, on account of its double meaning, and is the cause of inconclusive syllogisms in reasoning.

Aristotle -- A Treatise on Government

They did not care to face the strain of some obstinate, inconclusive discussion for fear, maybe, of it ending in a serious quarrel.

Joseph Conrad -- The Arrow of Gold