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How to use incomparable in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective, noun

Incomparable means not comparable. Example: “I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation, than Shakespeare's drawing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.”

Examples of incomparable by meaning

adjectiveSo much better than another as to be beyond comparison.

  • I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation, than Shakespeare's drawing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.c. 1905, Oscar Wilde, edited by Robert Baldwin Ross, De Profundis, published 1909, page 112

More sentences with incomparable

  • Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson. From the entry monody
  • Incomparable quite, the figure and face and vesture of him who ended in them.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry vesture
  • The others are of a dry or yarrish taste and mixd with Whitesour make an incomparable Cider.1900, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and transactions, volume 32. From the entry yarrish
  • For Tao-chi, the ultimate mountain scenery was always represented by the incomparable peaks of Huang-shan, the Yellow Mountain, in Anhwei.1976, Wen Fong, “On the Mountain Peak”, in Returning Home: Tao-chi's Album of Landscapes and Flowers, New York: George Braziller, →ISBN…. From the entry Huang-shan
  • When they can be seen, it is supposed to mean a year of poor food crops but incomparable wine.1946, The New Yorker, volume 22, part 5, New York, N.Y.: F-R Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69, column 1. From the entry hunger stone
  • In the Chinese Islamic Restaurant, a Ningxia Hui restaurant near Los Angeles, we have eaten similar stews with their incomparable nan–style bread.2010, Paul D. Buell, Eugene N[ewton] Anderson, “[Juan One] Translation”, in A Soup for the Qan: Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol Era…. From the entry mongol
  • There, in a setting suspiciously similar to Lake Wobegon, I’ve chronicled the feats of the incomparable John Gagliardi, head coach at Division III powerhouse St.2009, Austin Murphy, Saturday Rules: Why College Football Outpasses, Outclasses, and Flat-Out Surpasses the NFL, page 5. From the entry Lake Wobegon
  • A creature can look ugly, be in the worst shape, but if her lower mouth is worth a kiss, it’s like a pure diamond, something incomparable.2012, Jorge Amado, chapter 14, in The Discovery of America by the Turks, Penguin Books, page 57. From the entry lower mouth
  • My father would tell us the stories of the places we went to with an incomparable conviction, and sense of the reality and dramaticness of the events.1916, George Howard Darwin, Scientific Papers, Cambridge: at the University Press, page xxx. From the entry dramaticness

Meaning of incomparable

  1. adjective Not comparable.
  2. adjective So much better than another as to be beyond comparison.
  3. noun Something beyond compare; a thing with which there is no comparison.

Full definition of incomparable

Questions about incomparable in a sentence

How do you use incomparable in a sentence?
Incomparable is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation, than Shakespeare's drawing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.”
What is a short sentence with incomparable?
“Incomparable quite, the figure and face and vesture of him who ended in them.”
What does incomparable mean?
Incomparable means not comparable.

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