Sentence examples for is unmentionable from inspiring English sources

-- Posted by E. O'Neal If race is unmentionable, why mention it?

Interestingly, none of the papers posit EMU's total failure-perhaps failure is unmentionable because it is unthinkable.

Four years ago, the Pentagon warned President Clinton that an all-out attack on Iraq might kill 'at least' 10,000 civilians: that, too, is unmentionable.

Nobody yearns for a Vera Drake society where sex is unmentionable and the only popular song is the equivalent of a covered-up piano leg – but not everything needs spelling out.

Nothing is unmentionable: sexual proclivities, weird religious beliefs, stormy relationships, challenging or nonexistent jobs, education and pensions are all discussed with a frankness that would have horrified my parents.

Naturally, though, a culture in which the loss of a pregnancy is unmentionable affects women and men, and heaps loneliness indiscriminately across the genders, so it is only a feminist issue in so far as it's a human one.

Bradley was unmentionable.

Words that described bodily functions were unmentionable.

The names that were unmentionable a few months ago are now commonplace in the headlines.

"People who for years were unmentionable will now be represented as part of Israeli society".

There was a murmur of concern; C.I.A drones, though common knowledge, are unmentionable by government officials in public.