Sample Sentences for
indeterminate
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  • This happens on and off for an indeterminate amount of time.  (source)
  • Mona gave Hanna an indeterminate look; Hanna wondered for a second if it was a look of pity.  (source)
    indeterminate = vague (unknown in meaning)
  • After that, the sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum.  (source)
    indeterminate = unknown (not individually distinguished and perhaps not understood as a group)
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  • At her side, also on skis, were a pair of bundled-up little blond kids of indeterminate sex.†  (source)
  • "Why, what on earth!" she cried as he knew she would, becoming flustered and moving her arms indeterminately.†  (source)
  • Her body, for the most part, was indeterminate.†  (source)
  • He went out indeterminately.†  (source)
  • A mysterious odor of indeterminate origin.†  (source)
  • Scarcely had I dropped my head back into its original position, when there flashed upon my mind what I cannot better describe than as the unformed half of that idea of deliverance to which I have previously alluded, and of which a moiety only floated indeterminately through my brain when I raised food to my burning lips.†  (source)
  • Even a stray unkind remark about the king or his family could result in a sojourn of indeterminate length in the GID's labyrinth of secret detention centers.†  (source)
  • The problem has an indeterminately large number of variables.†  (source)
  • As a son of Poseidon, he could probably breathe underwater, but holding one's breath for an indeterminate amount of time was a different matter altogether.†  (source)
  • The setting is always green mountains and clear water, with handsome men and pretty women of some indeterminate era living in harmony with nature.†  (source)
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