Sample Sentences for
inscrutable
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    "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.  (source)
    inscrutable = impossible to read or understand
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    The black man's face was empty, inscrutable.  (source)
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    The Buddha's eyes quietly looked to the ground; quietly, in perfect equanimity his inscrutable face was smiling.  (source)
    inscrutable = impossible to understand
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    Whenever the TV screen flickers, the light striking her profile wavers, and shadows dance like inscrutable signals.  (source)
    inscrutable = impossible to understand
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    Eric nearly dropped the glass he was holding, for Vivaldo had thrown him off balance; he grinned up into Vivaldo's grinning face; and was aware, behind Vivaldo, of Ida, inscrutably watching, and the policeman, waiting.†  (source)
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    Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever.  (source)
    inscrutability = obscureness (the quality of being hard to find or understand)
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    The Polizei scrutinize my inscrutables, then let me go.†  (source)
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    It was constant, the only eternal thing, inscrutable, detached, dispassionate.†  (source)
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    Farid lowered his head and gazed inscrutably at his bare toes.†  (source)
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    Did I detect an increase in bland inscrutability†  (source)
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    What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside.†  (source)
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    Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail.†  (source)
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    He smiled inscrutably, but did not answer.†  (source)
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