How to Use unrecognizable in a Sentence

unrecognizable

adjective
  • In 1895, the land that will host the U.S. Open this week was unrecognizable.
    Craig Gill / Made By History, TIME, 13 June 2024
  • More than half on the road -- a place where the Cavs have been strikingly unrecognizable.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
  • For too long, he was forced to endure their assault, and by the time the tram was working again, his face was a swollen, near-unrecognizable mass of bites.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • On Monday in Pompano Beach a man was hit and killed, and his truck was left unrecognizable.
    CBS News, 9 May 2022
  • For them, the dream of owning a home here is becoming more remote by the day, and parts of their city have grown unrecognizable.
    Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • And then she was beaten and bludgeoned to the point that her face was unrecognizable to her family and to her friends.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This year, the hosts may be just as unrecognizable to some viewers as the new Gen Z bit cast members trying to make it.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The planets and characters are for the most part new and unrecognizable.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Nov. 2022
  • When Allen is off the floor, Cleveland is unrecognizable -- at both ends.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
  • My own body odor was unrecognizable, like a stranger had been wearing my clothes.
    Taylore Glynn, Allure, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The first season in 2002 starring Alex Michel is unrecognizable from the current version of the show.
    Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Johnson was unrecognizable in a first-look image from the film shared May 21.
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • Motor City is unrecognizable from even a few years ago (and honestly, there was a lot to love even then).
    Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Green has surveyed the town's ruins twice, and said the magnitude of the destruction has left the area unrecognizable.
    Analisa Novak, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Perez was unrecognizable Monday in a dark business suit and his hair cropped close.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The dump truck is caved-in and unrecognizable after the crash, which occurred less than two miles from South Mecklenburg High School.
    Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • Oregon has been unrecognizable from the team that lost in Atlanta.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The driver's car, found pancaked at the bottom of the ravine, was unrecognizable, according to Leum.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 25 July 2023
  • Video in the aftermath of the crash shows flames still burning and smoke billowing out of the unrecognizable remains of a mobile home.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024
  • To step into the part as Candy, Biel is nearly unrecognizable in a short curly wig and large glasses.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2022
  • At the same time, age means there are fewer of those acts, while attrition has rendered some bands that refuse to quit unrecognizable.
    Christopher Borrelli, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Pyasetskiy said his face was unrecognizable, had to walk home naked.
    Ian Lovett, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Some have been wounded so badly or have been lying in the open for so long that their bodies are unrecognizable.
    Lauren Egan, NBC News, 13 June 2022
  • In short, these are ridiculous figures — and yet not so ridiculous as to be unrecognizable.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In the pics from the magazine, the 42-year-old model is totally unrecognizable in a black wig with thin, blonde eyebrows.
    Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The most interesting part of the footage is that Kai’s face is almost unrecognizable.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • As a long line of cars wound down the highway, the streets behind them were rapidly becoming unrecognizable.
    Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • But right now it’s all just been mixed together in this unrecognizable pile of debris.
    ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The Trojans are unrecognizable from last season’s edition, with an overhauled roster and new coaching staff.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • While retail analysts cite a number of factors for this change — such as the rise of Walmart and Amazon — one thing is clear: the department store channel is unrecognizable today.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 26 June 2024

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