unmentionable

How To Use unmentionable In A Sentence

• There was a flicker of interest in Latham in the opening moments of the not-very-great debate - when he tackled the other unmentionable issues, Iran and the war against terror.
• Some historians studying the brutal battles for the Mediterranean have ended by asking an almost unmentionable question, which Woodall's plain account does not address: should Malta have been held at all, against such odds?
• This was the great unmentionable fact when I was working there.
• I don't know what else could have been so hurtful that, this many years later, it's still unmentionable. THE SAVING GRACES
• It seems to be the unmentionable subject, and everyone assumes that Cheney will be the vice president, and he probably will be.
• The matter of discrimination stays out of the picture, the great unmentionable that might spoil the happy day.
• But she surprises me with her verve, dodging the car at the last second with a little roll that reverses into like a forward summersault, coming down way hard on my unmentionables. The Pathetic Phallacy
• By doing the unmentionable, the unthinkable, Sethe bears witness to the despair of a black woman slave faced with the threat of having ‘the best part of her… sullied’.
• Dying, the indiscussible, the unmentionable, the thing we run away from, the word for access all areas. Times, Sunday Times
• Plastic bags filled with unmentionable contents; old shoes; broken toys; twisted bits of wire and metal; old mattresses with their innards spilling out; all lie tangled in a sludge of human waste.