Sample sentences for INDELIBLE

(click/touch triangles for details)

Definition

cannot be removed, washed away or erased; or unforgettable

an indelible marker

an indelible stain
an indelible memory
That picture of him, dark-browed, fire-eyed, strangely sad and strong, sank indelibly into Madeline's heart of hearts.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
She compensated for this handicap by developing a memory on which was indelibly stamped everything she had ever heard or seen or experienced.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
Failing that, the walk would be marked indelibly, engraved with Swedish blue for all time.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
There were nothing but indelible images for me.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
Papa looked down, scars visible and indelibly written into his wrists.
William P. Young -- The Shack
But she couldn't wash away the indelible stench of Daddy.
Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
But it was the meerkats that impressed themselves most indelibly on my mind.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
Little by little the next few days Duane learned the points he longed to know; and how indelibly they etched themselves in his memory!
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
The sad accessories of Fanny's end confronted him as vivid pictures which threatened to be indelible, and made life in Bathsheba's house intolerable.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
But the commentary upon it now indelibly written in his handsome face made it far more distressing than it used to be.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
The words he had spoken made an indelible impression upon me.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
On it was the name of anyone for whom a parcel was waiting, written in indelible pencil.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
But he didn't assume that legacies are an indelible part of who we are.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
Only, each one of them in its passage traced an indelible line, altering the picture that he had formed of his mistress.
Marcel Proust -- Swann's Way
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statues on the next.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
It had something to do with playing a certain kind of harpsichord rondo while the chickens were massaged with indelible ink.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Their endless wanderings had marked them indelibly.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago

Dictionary / pronunciation — Google^®Dictionary list — Onelook.com^®

Search for other examples by interest

Interest — Source

indelible