toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

indelible
in a sentence

show 130 more with this conextual meaning
  • Before the troops withdrew, the captain rode around the back patio, inhaling deep whiffs of the scent of roses that still clung indelibly to this place.†   (source)
  • But he didn't assume that legacies are an indelible part of who we are.†   (source)
  • The ink is indelible until 22:00--Bathing.†   (source)
  • I must have used indelible ink or something!†   (source)
  • And the given name had flashed before her as well for the briefest of moments, a shooting star that entered the earth's atmosphere, etching itself indelibly in Ruth's mind.†   (source)
  • On the night before the Ouster retreat, Kassad left the command conference on the HS Brazil, farcast to his HQ in the Indelibles north of the Hyne Valley, and took his command car to the summit to watch the final bombardment.†   (source)
  • But in the midst of this whole visual tangle she gets one image printed indelibly on her retina: the gunmen going down like a treeline in a hurricane, and for just an instant, a line of dark angular things silhouetted above the maze as they crest it like a cybernetic tsunami.†   (source)
  • The flavors of childhood foods seem to leave an indelible mark, and adults often return to them, without always knowing why.†   (source)
  • It was what happened next that had made such an indelible impression upon Mr Charles.†   (source)
  • Papa looked down, scars visible and indelibly written into his wrists.†   (source)
  • They also brought back three indelible memories: the unprecedented opening of The Tales ofHoffmann in Paris, the terrifying blaze that destroyed almost all the gondolas off St. Mark's Square in Venice, which they witnessed with grieving hearts from the window of their hotel, and their fleeting glimpse of Oscar Wilde during the first snowfall in January.†   (source)
  • On it was the name of anyone for whom a parcel was waiting, written in indelible pencil.†   (source)
  • The mass media has had an indelible effect on the minds of the American society.†   (source)
  • Ink-sewn to the left palm, Jim's face was indelible and natural as life.†   (source)
  • He was clenching his fists at his side; and on the backs of his hands I saw that the cigarette burns had all but healed, and in their place were tattoos he'd drawn by licking an indelible pencil.†   (source)
  • Her week in the cotton mill had fixed indelibly on her mind the picture of the mill child, straggling to work in the gray dawn, sleepy, shivering, unkempt; of the young things creeping up and down the aisles between the endlessly turning spools, dully regarding the frames to see that the threads were not fouled or broken; of the tired little groups as they pressed close to the shut windows, neglecting their work to stare out into a world of blue sky and blowing airs—a world they could…†   (source)
  • "Here," I said, and handed her a washcloth that had BROKEN ARROW written on the selvage in indelible magic marker.†   (source)
  • The diagrams of the human body outlined on the blackboard were indelibly stamped on Miro's mind.†   (source)
  • That's my indelible mark on human history?"†   (source)
  • They were heard in the walls and down the yards, indelible half fictions, running across rooftops in the moon.†   (source)
  • The school dedication--and the full week in Cambodia--left an indelible impression on the American students.†   (source)
  • It was only a four-minute drive to the shop from his storage space, but Mortenson remembers the passage as indelibly as a cross-country road trip.†   (source)
  • I knew that the way others had lost a leg or an arm, I'd lost whatever the thing is that makes people indelible.†   (source)
  • Some first impressions are indelible, like mine of Tess Gallagher.†   (source)
  • The terrible, indelible honeymoon murders that terrified our city, mixed with close-ups of my mom and even a few flashes of my father.†   (source)
  • And if Tereza has a nervous way of moving, if her gestures lack a certain easy grace, we must not be surprised: her mother's grand, wild, and self-destructive gesture has left an indelible imprint on her.†   (source)
  • The horror of it all seeped into his mind, an indelible ink.†   (source)
  • Sadly, heart failure had taken Lucky nearly twenty years earlier, and though Padre Esteban had also passed away, he had left behind an indelible legacy and an old radio that he had donated to the Tec de Monterrey.†   (source)
  • But there was nothing tame about that indelible moment, during the C-section, when the doctor reached into my wife, and a bloody head appeared, straight up, followed by Hadley's full emergence and a wild squall of life as her little arms rose over her head in victory.†   (source)
  • There is no part of this city that is not indelibly printed on my mind.†   (source)
  • She had abused him in a way that had left indelible marks on his body.†   (source)
  • And whatever came to pass, whatever brutal reckonings were forced upon them, this moment would be there, indelibly written in their heads and hearts forever.†   (source)
  • He knew that after the destruction of Hamiathes's Gift the year before, what had seemed an indelible belief in the goddess-given authority of the Gift had slowly faded from most people's minds, until the gods were once again a vague possibility instead of a nerve-racking reality—even for his father.†   (source)
  • All of that Deo remembered clearly, indelibly.†   (source)
  • The harrowing days of April 1961 taught the Kennedy brothers an indelible lesson: they are on their own.†   (source)
  • Whatever the legitimacy of this indelible national myth, some cowboys do exist, and we met a few on the Bar-J ranch, a spread of five thousand acres near Beeville, between San Antonio and Corpus Christi.†   (source)
  • During those four years in Charleston we wore the outline of Vietnam etched indelibly on our consciousness.†   (source)
  • It is obvious that he views the truth not as indelible fact, but rather as a malleable suggestion which can be twisted, manipulated, and shaped to fit his own needs or the needs of his clients.†   (source)
  • But she couldn't wash away the indelible stench of Daddy.†   (source)
  • Indelible, our last clues to a beautiful woman.†   (source)
  • It had something to do with playing a certain kind of harpsichord rondo while the chickens were massaged with indelible ink.†   (source)
  • She compensated for this handicap by developing a memory on which was indelibly stamped everything she had ever heard or seen or experienced.†   (source)
  • The remark has an indelible quality that makes Conrad's skin prickle.†   (source)
  • Failing that, the walk would be marked indelibly, engraved with Swedish blue for all time.†   (source)
  • She printed that so indelibly in my mind that I usually automatically don't … well, most of the time I don't.†   (source)
  • He felt a spasm of pain like a blast of sudden cold, saw the patient high-boned Indian face, that beautiful woman, indelible suffering.†   (source)
  • Whatever ISIS's ultimate fate, it had left an indelible mark on the Middle East.†   (source)
  • The image of that massive head with its broad white ruff, short pricked ears, tawny eyes and grizzled muzzle was indelibly fixed in memory.†   (source)
  • What she most deeply and indelibly remembered about that first day, and the days which followed, was his truly awesome tenderness.†   (source)
  • Throughout my last weeks at home she did her best to keep a cheerful countenance, but I caught her several times looking at me gravely and hungrily, trying to press her memory indelibly with the image of someone she might never see again.†   (source)
  • Their endless wanderings had marked them indelibly.†   (source)
  • It was written not properly in ink but in indelible pencil, and so its message had not been washed away as it might have been.†   (source)
  • He had put the Treadstone file in the safe, but the words were indelibly printed on his mind.†   (source)
  • It is all falling indelibly into the past.†   (source)
  • Exhausted but deeply fulfilled, Mack paused and closed his eyes for a moment, trying to etch the details of Missy's presence indelibly into his mind, hoping that in the days to come he would be able to bring back every moment with her, every nuance and movement.†   (source)
  • The voices and faces of these workers are indelibly with me, as is the sight of their hands, the light brown skin crisscrossed with white scars.†   (source)
  • Indelibly, no pencil or paper required.†   (source)
  • The imprint of Dachau branded me indelibly and caused me to suffer the miscarriage of my hopeful philosophy.†   (source)
  • His tribe's influence in making him a man was obvious and indelible.†   (source)
  • There were nothing but indelible images for me.†   (source)
  • See completely, the impression indelible; she had to finally understand.†   (source)
  • But listening to one of his personal heroes speak after dinner was an indelible experience for him.†   (source)
  • He had been there; it was all indelible.†   (source)
  • What a long-lasting and indelible tradition this has been!†   (source)
  • Food and clothing for victims of floods; a group of GIs adopting an orphan and sending him to school; neighbors building a new home for a victim of fire; Community Chest, Cancer Fund, Salvation Army, Alcoholics Anonymous, and a thousand other such acts or associations, all voluntary, collective or individual, left an indelible mark on me.†   (source)
  • Back at the house, when the youngest tried to clean his forehead, he discovered that the mark was indelible and so were those of his brothers.†   (source)
  • There was no personal statement in the house, no indelible signature of individuality; it was as though the collective unconscious of all Charlestonians, the living and the dead, had formed a committee of restrained equilibrists to design the interior of each room.†   (source)
  • My belief in chance lets me see life as brimming with possibility: the person next to me in line at the airport who becomes a lifelong friend, the professor in the elevator who asks a provocative question, or the soldier I meet at an outdoor cafe in Jerusalem who takes me on a romantic tour of the city, leaving me with an indelible memory.†   (source)
  • He even accused Father Antonio Isabel of complicity for having marked his sons with indelible ashes so that they could be identified by their enemies.†   (source)
  • They're concerned an attack on the homeland so late in his second term will leave an indelible stain on his legacy.†   (source)
  • Alma left an indelible impression on his mind, as had the six or seven other girls whose transformations he'd witnessed, and, in the throes of his own puberty, had all taken turns as the object of his desire.†   (source)
  • I had no doubts then, and none now, that I spent four years in the loveliest city on the continent and that some indelible mark of civilization, some passionate intimacy with form and beauty, would remain with me always if only I were vigilant enough, if only I were resolute in my intention to assimilate the resonances and intimations of that exquisite city.†   (source)
  • If some indelible red false-fronts joined one to the other like a little toy train went by, I didn't think of my childhood any more.†   (source)
  • I smoothed out that brown page of the hymn book with the torn edge, that purple indelible writing across it where the print read "Round & Shaped Notes."†   (source)
  • In purple, indelible pencil.†   (source)
  • I had no need to see them set sail, knowing as well as if I'd been ahead of them all the way, the far and wide, misty and islanded, bright and indelible and menacing world under which they all must go.†   (source)
  • But she knew the kinship for what it was, whomever it settled upon, an indelible thing which may come without friendship or even too early an identity, may come even despisingly, in rudeness, intruding in the middle of sorrow.†   (source)
  • … He understood it now, understood it all, irrevocably, indelibly.†   (source)
  • …with incidents to remember after he was gone, happenings which she could examine at leisure in the long months ahead, extracting every morsel of comfort from them—dance, sing, laugh, fetch and carry for Ashley, anticipate his wants, smile when he smiles, be silent when he talks, follow him with your eyes so that each line of his erect body, each lift of his eyebrows, each quirk of his mouth, will be indelibly printed on your mind—for a week goes by so fast and the war goes on forever.†   (source)
  • It was there exactly as it happened with some parts of it indelibly emphasized and he was miserably ashamed at it.†   (source)
  • But if I want to know all that a human being can tell me about Sir Hawley Butts, for instance, I have only to open Burke or Debrett and I shall find that he took such and such a degree; owns a hall; has an heir; was Secretary to a Board; represented Great Britain in Canada; and has received a certain number of degrees, offices, medals and other distinctions by which his merits are stamped upon him indelibly.†   (source)
  • A few extracts from the latter will carry me on to those scenes which are indelibly fixed in every detail upon my memory.†   (source)
  • Little by little the next few days Duane learned the points he longed to know; and how indelibly they etched themselves in his memory!†   (source)
  • And then stole out from her hiding-place and mounted her throne that Goddess whose lust is to override opposition, to stamp indelibly in the sanctuaries of others the image of herself.†   (source)
  • That picture of him, dark-browed, fire-eyed, strangely sad and strong, sank indelibly into Madeline's heart of hearts.†   (source)
  • The incidents of the next few days are indelibly graven upon my recollection, and I can tell them without reference to the notes made at the time.†   (source)
  • But the commentary upon it now indelibly written in his handsome face made it far more distressing than it used to be.†   (source)
  • These grains are afterward removed, and the roughness imparted to the appearance of the skin remains indelibly; shagreen is useful in polishing joiners' work, and it is made in France from the rough skin of a hideous creature called the angel-fish.'†   (source)
  • Now her emotions were merely the natural outpourings of a daughter that wept for a mother whose love was indelibly impressed on the heart, and whose lessons had been too earnestly taught to be easily forgotten by one who had so little temptation to err.†   (source)
  • The saying might have worn out of my memory, had not a circumstance immediately followed which served indelibly to fix it there.†   (source)
  • Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by the passing stroller with the epithet: melancholy, the apparently objectless promenades of the dreamer.†   (source)
  • Directly in front of the corpse Chingachgook was placed, without arms, paint or adornment of any sort, except the bright blue blazonry of his race, that was indelibly impressed on his naked bosom.†   (source)
  • I say indelibly, for I felt persuaded that if the fatal cause could have been for ever terminated, according to his brightest visions, in that same hour, the traces of the premature anxiety, self-reproach, and disappointment it had occasioned him would have remained upon his features to the hour of his death.†   (source)
  • I derived benefit from the task: it had kept my head and hands employed, and had given force and fixedness to the new impressions I wished to stamp indelibly on my heart.†   (source)
  • This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.†   (source)
  • Private written across it in indelible ink.†   (source)
  • He was still feeling his hand strangely" it seemed that the pressure of Jan's fingers had left an indelible imprint.†   (source)
  • It was never published, but I saw it once and it made an indelible impression on my mind.†   (source)
  • The words he had spoken made an indelible impression upon me.†   (source)
  • The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic ages.†   (source)
  • We repeat, who does not perceive that in this form it is far more indelible?†   (source)
  • I fear the presence of a tendency that threatens to become an indelible trait of character unless one opposes it head-on.†   (source)
  • Your catechism tells you that the sacrament of Holy Orders is one of those which can be received only once because it imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark which can never be effaced.†   (source)
  • Only, each one of them in its passage traced an indelible line, altering the picture that he had formed of his mistress.†   (source)
  • But when in repose her features had a shadowy look that was like a sardonic grin, as if some one had sketched with cruel forefinger indelible lines about her mouth.†   (source)
  • Deep repose, mysterious refreshment for Swann,—for him whose eyes, although delicate interpreters of painting, whose mind, although an acute observer of manners, must bear for ever the indelible imprint of the barrenness of his life,—to feel himself transformed into a creature foreign to humanity, blinded, deprived of his logical faculty, almost a fantastic unicorn, a chimaera-like creature conscious of the world through his two ears alone.†   (source)
  • But for the indelible picture that my remembrance now holds before me, I could scarcely believe, even as I write these words, that I saw two-and-thirty men and women put before the Judge to receive that sentence together.†   (source)
  • Anyway she succeeded in completely re-establishing Dounia's reputation and the whole ignominy of this affair rested as an indelible disgrace upon her husband, as the only person to blame, so that I really began to feel sorry for him; it was really treating the crazy fellow too harshly.†   (source)
  • The girl moreover was not prone to take for granted that she herself lived in the mind of others—she had not the fatuity to believe she left indelible traces.†   (source)
  • When I remember the extreme difficulty with which aristocratic bodies, of whatever nature they may be, are commingled with the mass of the people; and the exceeding care which they take to preserve the ideal boundaries of their caste inviolate, I despair of seeing an aristocracy disappear which is founded upon visible and indelible signs.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, as regarded this circumstance at least, his painful past gave to his countenance an indelible sadness, and the glimmerings of gayety seen beneath this cloud were indeed but transitory.†   (source)
  • Six years had elapsed, passed in a dream but for one indelible trace, and I stood in the same place where I had last embraced my father before my departure for Ingolstadt.†   (source)
  • Fanny thought exactly the same; and they were also quite agreed in their opinion of the lasting effect, the indelible impression, which such a disappointment must make on his mind.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Those quacks and misanthropes who advertise indelible Japan ink should be made to perish along with their wicked discoveries.†   (source)
  • Then the cambric was torn from her beautiful shoulders; and on one of those lovely shoulders, round and white, d'Artagnan recognized, with inexpressible astonishment, the FLEUR-DE-LIS—that indelible mark which the hand of the infamous executioner had imprinted.†   (source)
  • Was not the very sight of the friend who sat behind you, was not the recollection of what had been, the knowledge of her influence, the indelible, immoveable impression of what persuasion had once done—was it not all against me?†   (source)
  • He accepted the compliment calmly, as men must in lands where women make the love, tore a leaf from a note-book, and with a patent indelible pencil wrote in gross Shikast—the script that bad little boys use when they write dirt on walls: 'I have everything that they have written: their pictures of the country, and many letters.†   (source)
  • I see her face now, better than I did then, I dare say, with its indelible look of regret and wonder turned upon me.†   (source)
  • Each step he trod oppressed his heart with fresh emotion; his first and most indelible recollections were there; not a tree, not a street, that he passed but seemed filled with dear and cherished memories.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 55 TEMPEST I now approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, so bound by an infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, in these pages, that, from the beginning of my narrative, I have seen it growing larger and larger as I advanced, like a great tower in a plain, and throwing its fore-cast shadow even on the incidents of my childish days.†   (source)
  • ] The Spaniards were unable to exterminate the Indian race by those unparalleled atrocities which brand them with indelible shame, nor did they even succeed in wholly depriving it of its rights; but the Americans of the United States have accomplished this twofold purpose with singular felicity; tranquilly, legally, philanthropically, without shedding blood, and without violating a single great principle of morality in the eyes of the world.†   (source)
  • Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible.†   (source)
  • My aunt took so kindly to the notion, that some ready-made clothes, which were purchased for me that afternoon, were marked 'Trotwood Copperfield', in her own handwriting, and in indelible marking-ink, before I put them on; and it was settled that all the other clothes which were ordered to be made for me (a complete outfit was bespoke that afternoon) should be marked in the same way.†   (source)
  • "But," she exclaimed, suddenly, "arsenic is indelible, indestructible; in whatsoever way it is absorbed, it will be found again in the body of the victim from the moment when it has been taken in sufficient quantity to cause death."†   (source)
  • My horror of having committed a thousand offences I had forgotten, and which nothing could ever expiate — my recollection of that indelible look which Agnes had given me — the torturing impossibility of communicating with her, not knowing, Beast that I was, how she came to be in London, or where she stayed — my disgust of the very sight of the room where the revel had been held — my racking head — the smell of smoke, the sight of glasses, the impossibility of going out, or even getting…†   (source)
  • …the convivial atmosphere of Socratic discussion, while to right and left of him were accommodated the flippant prognosticator, fresh from the hippodrome, and that vigilant wanderer, soiled by the dust of travel and combat and stained by the mire of an indelible dishonour, but from whose steadfast and constant heart no lure or peril or threat or degradation could ever efface the image of that voluptuous loveliness which the inspired pencil of Lafayette has limned for ages yet to come.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The relation of the master and scholar is indelible; as, indeed, all other relations are; for they all derive their original from heaven.†   (source)
  • The unison of opposites to prove, Of the soft wax and diamond hard am I; But still, obedient to the laws of love, Here, hard or soft, I offer you my breast, Whate'er you grave or stamp thereon shall rest Indelible for all eternity.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)