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adjective

inexorable

CEFR C2

impossible to stop or prevent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with inexorable, each labelled with its topic.

  • The glacier's retreat has been inexorable for forty years, and the markers along the valley now stand far from any ice.

    Environment

  • Once the mill closed, the town's decline felt inexorable, with the bakery going first, then the school, then the bus route.

    Economics

  • The plot moves with inexorable logic toward the courtroom scene, and by the halfway mark nothing can turn it aside.

    Movies

  • The empire's expansion seemed inexorable for a century, adding a province nearly every decade until the borders overreached.

    History

  • The comeback felt inexorable from the third quarter on, each stop and layup shaving the lead until it was gone.

    Basketball

  • The Stoics taught that fate is inexorable, so wisdom lies in choosing how to meet what cannot be avoided.

    Philosophy

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