Sample sentences for INESTIMABLE

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Definition

too great to be calculated or measured

jewels of inestimable value

inestimable = too great to be calculated or measured

a right inestimable to them
Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence

inestimable = (whose value is) too great to be calculated or measured

It is a privilege to serve her who pities my oppressed people, and who has bestowed the inestimable boon of freedom on me and my children.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The value of a man like Henry, on such an occasion, is what you can have no conception of; so you must take it upon my word to be inestimable.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
And the inestimable Casto?
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
This revelation seemed to me inestimably precious.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
"An inestimable advantage have you then enjoyed, venerable venator!" observed the attentive naturalist.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the gifted Kurtz.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
She is the product of an Alchemy of such virtue that he who is able to practise it, will turn her into pure gold of inestimable worth.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
And his suggestions on the question of dress—which too often assumes the nature of a problem—were of inestimable value to his father-in-law.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
Is it Bodger's fault that this inestimable gift is deplorably abused by less than one per cent of the poor?
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
His brightest diamonds were the merest pebbles, and felt to be so by himself, in comparison with the inestimable gems which lay hidden beyond his reach.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark
I now read over the works of Aristotle and Plato, with the rest of those inestimable treasures which antient Greece had bequeathed to the world.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
There may exist certain critical and tempestuous conjunctures of the State, in which a poll tax may become an inestimable resource.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
I give it her, and say: 'I ask an inestimable price for it, Miss Larkins.'
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
It was the chance of a lifetime for him, an experience of inestimable value, Abigail recognized, her "thousand fears" notwithstanding.
David McCullough -- John Adams
A diamond necklace, with pendants of inestimable value, were by this means also made more conspicuous.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
The splendor of the ruined monarchy had no reflection save in those inestimable precious stones.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Earth's Holocaust
John Galt was a millionaire, a man of inestimable wealth.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
And he went back into the cities of men where he moved among the citizens of the world, bestowing the inestimable boon of the knowledge of the Way.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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