Sample sentences for INSCRUTABLE

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Definition

impossible to understand — often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious

inscrutable = impossible to understand

She was inscrutable.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
Your wife is quite lovely, you know, so doll-like and inscrutable.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

inscrutable = impossible to understand

Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat

inscrutability = obscureness (the quality of being hard to find or understand)

The black man's face was empty, inscrutable.
Michael Shaara -- The Killer Angels

inscrutable = impossible to read or understand

Whenever the TV screen flickers, the light striking her profile wavers, and shadows dance like inscrutable signals.
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark

inscrutable = impossible to understand

The Buddha's eyes quietly looked to the ground; quietly, in perfect equanimity his inscrutable face was smiling.
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha

inscrutable = impossible to understand

"Ready," Archie said, keeping his face expressionless, inscrutable as usual, even though he felt a bead of perspiration trace a cold path from his armpit to his rib.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War

inscrutable = impossible to read or understand

At first he considered saving money by sleeping outside on a bench but he was without guides and the inscrutability of the nearby signs unnerved him.
Junot Diaz -- Drown

inscrutability = state of not being understandable

Newman felt that taking her measure was not easy; she was a formidable, inscrutable little woman.
James, Henry -- The American
Milvain supplied with facts about the private history of Ralph Denham since, for some inscrutable reason, the subject took her fancy.
Woolf, Virginia -- Night and Day
God alone knows whether I shall be happy, but my fate is in His holy, His inscrutable hand, and I have so decided.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Poor Folk
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.
Shakespeare, William -- Two Gentlemen of Verona
Inscrutable Nature had demanded of the accomplice a greater penalty than his principal had paid.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Son Of Tarzan
He seemed to be pondering over his words, his expression was inscrutable.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Kingdom of the Blind
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Louise Bogan
He used to keep the ship loafing at sea for inscrutable reasons.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Shadow Line
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. Forster
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.
William Shakespeare
This inscrutable man never felt more alone than when surrounded by his dogs.
Barrie, James Matthew -- The Adventures of Peter Pan

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