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  • When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: if one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.   (source)
  • Love, then marriage, then catastrophe. In Reenie's version, it seemed inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = unavoidable (certain to happen)
  • The day feeling was bad, no question, but the night feeling was the real killer—a bleak sledgehammer to the soul, as if some stranger had whispered a terrible secret in his ear, and that secret was how death was senseless and inevitable.   (source)
  • Inevitably there won't be crunchy peanut butter and Josh will say too bad, pick something else.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • And, inevitably, as in every convict cliche I'd ever heard, he claimed innocence.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it would happen
  • He puts his right leg down first, out of habit, avoiding the inevitable stiffness of his left.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen (be felt)
  • It almost seemed to him as if the Keepers wanted people busy, wanted to delay the inevitable panic attacks.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • the Ministry seemed to have bowed to the inevitable and stopped fighting the signs of blatant magic now breaking out everywhere.   (source)
    inevitable = things that could not be prevented (things certain to happen)
  • During the following weeks, Cole mentally prepared himself for the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = what is certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)
  • It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it.   (source)
    inevitability = the certainty that it will happen
  • To hoard crumbs of information, Josie tried to watch television ... but inevitably her mother would come into the room and turn it off.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • I merely bowed to the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = something that is certain to happen
  • Mother calls out for me to put my shoes back on, threatening ringworm, mosquito encephalitis. The inevitability of death by no shoes.   (source)
    inevitability = certainty that something will happen
  • For a while we just stand there in silence, delaying the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = what is certain to happen
  • I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty
  • I know the evening is coming to an end, and there is nothing I can do to stop the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = what is certain to happen
  • So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped ... that failure was inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Ralph picked out Jack easily, even at that distance, tall, red-haired, and inevitably leading the procession.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it would happen that way
  • He's got one little spark left--his refusal to surrender to Macduff and the forces of good--but don't you think his death is inevitable, Marcus?   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • The destination somehow inevitable, the sights seen in passing so many times.   (source)
  • So George, Harold, and Captain Underpants frantically looked all over the Laser-Matic 2000, searching for a way to shut it down and stop the inevitable disaster.   (source)
  • And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • He must be hallucinating, creating pleasant images to distract himself from the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = that which will certainly happen
  • no longer thought of as inevitable and unavoidable   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • It's all just a matter of time, and part of me wonders why I'm delaying the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = what is certain to happen
  • There will inevitably be arguments and conflicts.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • Over the next few weeks Linda wore her new red cap to school every day. She never took it off, not even in the classroom, and so it was inevitable that she took some teasing about it.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • It is not a matter of trust any longer, it is a matter of inevitability.   (source)
    inevitability = certainty that something will happen
  • All stood dumbstruck in the silence that inevitably follows great and unexpected events.   (source)
    inevitably = always
  • [of time] I feel it pressing against me as seven o'clock inevitably draws closer,   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will come
  • By 31 August 1939 everyone in Warsaw had been sure for some time that war with the Germans was inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Why, they inevitably ask in one form or another, why are you the one who survived?   (source)
    inevitably = always (with certainty that it will happen)
  • I guess I was just trying to put off the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = something that is certain to happen
  • I am maintaining my clear-eyed sense of the inevitable.  I'm living like I'm dying. But at the same time, I'm very much living like I'm still living.   (source)
    inevitable = event that is certain to happen
  • For me, it's a low point that now seems as though it was inevitable,   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • They used to wear very little, but the ladies of England introduced the Mother Hubbard, a long, cumbersome, ill-fitting dress, completely shapeless, that inevitably gets dragged in the fire, causing burns aplenty.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • in the name of steering her clear of the moral decline inevitable to her nature.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to be a part
  • Hallorann had thought a crash inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Scientists Grow Immortal Chicken Heart … Death Perhaps Not Inevitable   (source)
  • "Leaving out that he would inevitably use this army to launch an attack on the Clave," Hodge said dryly, ...   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • He made it sound so inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • I was hoping for Rina, or Melinda Trudale, or ..., anyone to stop this inevitable discussion I was about to have with saltine-esque Mike Evans, whom I hadn't been really face-to-face with since the night I rejected both him and his letter jacket and ran off with...   (source)
  • ...it meant a one-mile walk going steeply downward, followed, inevitably, by a one-mile walk going steeply upward.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • And I love you for that, but you only delayed the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = something that is certain to happen
  • ...waiting for the inevitable shot.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • It's like the flu: first a sore throat, then, inevitably, a stuffy nose and a cough.   (source)
    inevitably = certain to follow
  • If the individual was listed in a computer file, which everyone inevitably was, then...   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • Inevitably it was he whom I saw burning in the roaring inferno of eternal damnation.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that something will happen
  • Why prolong the inevitable?   (source)
    inevitable = that which is certain to happen
  • Papi began more and more to regard his departure as inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Running would just put off the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = that which is certain to happen
  • ...with the moon and the stars moving in a grand rotation toward inevitable dawn,   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Sarah invited me over, I told her I felt under the weather, both to escape inevitable questions demanding uneasy answers and to consider my options:   (source)
  • "Oh, well," Takahashi says, as if resigning himself to the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = that which is certain to happen
  • For most of history, slavery had been accepted as sad but inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • There's no use in delaying the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = what is certain to happen
  • It was inevitable that Earl Robinson, the sheriff of Finney County, should ask Al Dewey to take charge of the Clutter case.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Inevitably on a trip there were things that needed cutting or skinning or trimming.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • But he resisted her with such skill that she was finally driven out to escape the inevitable boredom produced by such a dainty life.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • I suppose it was inevitable that we would have this conversation.   (source)
  • All I can do is put in time waiting for the inevitable,   (source)
    inevitable = something that is certain to happen
  • They would inevitably surface within a rectangle of barbed wire, would find themselves greeted listlessly by dying Russians who spoke no English, who had no food or useful information or escape plans of their own.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it would happen
  • Inevitably, after I'd stood there a while, ... I screwed my nerve up and dove.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • A funeral hymn made its way around the church.... The inevitable destination of all living things seemed but a short step away.   (source)
    inevitable = certain
  • In his mind, he was fighting all poverty all the time, an endeavor full of difficulties and inevitable failures.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Inevitably, every document he signed came back with a fresh page added for a new signature by him after intervals of from two to ten days.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • ...and only after the danger had passed did I allow my thoughts to unravel to their inevitable end.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • He braced himself for the inevitable blow that caught him a nanosecond later.   (source)
  • I knew the craziness within him would inevitably, periodically surface.   (source)
  • This form of argument rests on the truth that if the inevitable conclusions from a set of premises are absurd then it follows logically that at least one of the premises that produced them is absurd.   (source)
  • I watched with a sick fascination, knowing part of the story, yet a part of me fighting against its sad inevitable conclusion.   (source)
  • You only hasten the inevitable.   (source)
  • The inevitable scattered political scandals that seem to accompany every administration took their toll,   (source)
  • "You have a half-grown daughter you never mentioned to me. You told me you'd never been married."
    "I haven't been," he said simply and waited for the inevitable questions.   (source)
  • suffering is not only inevitable, but is an indispensable part of a lifelong education,   (source)
  • there'd be the prospect of a lifetime's guarding against slips — and we knew well enough already that occasional slips were inevitable.   (source)
  • ...in a war that will spread, inevitably, throughout Everworld.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • Mr. Eden ... hadn't said a word about practical measures to save as many Jews as possible from what he knew would be their inevitable fate?   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through...   (source)
    inevitability = certainty that something will happen
  • GEORGE: You bet your historical inevitability she is!   (source)
  • ...the world there [China] was like a skating rink, a finite space, walled. Words inevitably rebounded. Here the world was enormous, all endless horizon; her words arced and disappeared as though into a wind-chopped ocean.   (source)
    inevitably = always (with certainty that it would happen)
  • the end seemed inevitably close.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • a mile of men flowing slowly, steadily, inevitably up the long green ground, dying all the while, coming to kill you,   (source)
  • But it was inevitable that these two worlds—the one where I was just another teenager and the one where I was pretending not to be—would collide.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • It's inevitable.   (source)
  • These stories have an inevitable pattern untroubled by the question, If none return, how is it known what is there?   (source)
    inevitable = with certainty that it will be there
  • march at the vanguard of socialism and talk of the inevitability of history.   (source)
    inevitability = certainty that it will happen
  • Veteran riders and ropers went to Odessa to test their skills and reflexes and weigh them against the inevitability of time.   (source)
    inevitability = that which is certain to happen
  • Attention is given him not as the inevitable due of a mighty monarch, but grudgingly and resentfully   (source)
    inevitable = certain
  • It was almost inevitable that George, as a leading member of the artistic hierarchy, should be one of the reception committee.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Do you really imagine you can account for Me? Totally, infallibly, inevitably account for Me?   (source)
    inevitably = with predictability (certainty of what will happen)
  • The end of the corn and exhaustion of the citrus crop had been inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Though Siddhartha fled from the self a thousand times ... the return was inevitable, inescapable was the hour, when he found himself back in the sunshine or in the moonlight, in the shade or in the rain, and was once again his self   (source)
  • It had fascinated me as a child of two-the inexorable diminishment-the sense of inevitability.   (source)
    inevitability = certainty that something will happen
  • ...had made the taking of these precautions almost as automatic and inevitable as blinking.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • I remembered, of course, that the World's Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened, the end of some inevitable chain.   (source)
  • ...its destruction was inevitable.   (source)
  • Once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there.   (source)
  • Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that something will happen
  • The little routine of the day going on inevitably as it had always done.   (source)
    inevitably = certain to happen
  • All the neighborhood could think or talk about was the inevitability of war.   (source)
    inevitability = certainty that it would happen
  • Hiroshima seemed more and more inevitably a target,   (source)
    inevitably = certain to be
  • He wondered where the inevitable Judas was sitting now,   (source)
    inevitable = certain to be there
  • Then she yielded to the inevitable and said tartly: "Very well, she can go, since nothing else'll please you."   (source)
    inevitable = that which is certain to happen
  • That was postponing the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • What I want to do is inject into the consciousness of this Court, through the discussion of evidence, the two possible courses of action open to us and the inevitable consequences flowing from each.   (source)
  • It was inevitable that the clash for leadership should come.   (source)
  • At dinner, when his wife began the inevitable, he bellowed, "I forbid any of you to say a word about Paul!"   (source)
  • Conviction was inevitable;   (source)
  • though to some extent ridiculed and mimicked in West Kensington ... she was accepted as a rational and normal--or shall we say inevitable?   (source)
  • My thoughts went back over the summer and suddenly it seemed inevitable that we should be here at the lake, Jack and I, where we had started.   (source)
  • A crisis was inevitable.   (source)
  • Marriage was for life, and because they had become close companions, he and she, he did not see that it should inevitably follow they should be man and wife.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty
  • he no longer feared the inevitable passage into the night. He knew he was going to die:   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • the inevitable came with sure and rapid footsteps.   (source)
    inevitable = event that was certain to happen
  • just as all the springs pour into streamlets, and the streamlets into rivers, and the rivers into the oceans—so, automatically and inevitably, all the wealth of society comes to them.   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • There is no escape through law of man or God from the inevitable:   (source)
    inevitable = things that are certain to happen
  • Now the risk was inevitable, I no longer saw it in the same cheerful light.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.   (source)
  • So that it and the City of the Lilies were not just artificial scenes which I could set up at my pleasure in front of my imagination, but did actually exist at a certain distance from Paris which must inevitably be traversed if I wished to see them,   (source)
    inevitably = certainly
  • It was simply inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • The inevitable sunlight came streaming in at the windows...   (source)
  • He struck her, inevitably, as gallant and splendid,   (source)
    inevitably = as was certain to happen
  • At last the moment comes, inevitable   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • I suppose we aimed too high, and disappointment was therefore inevitable.   (source)
  • And the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible.   (source)
  • People generally get used to the inevitable.   (source)
    inevitable = things that are certain to happen
  • an inevitable doom   (source)
    inevitable = certain
  • He could not help remembering that he had lately made some debts, but these had seemed inevitable,   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • Down—still unceasingly—still inevitably down!   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • We all felt that we might as well be sold at once to the Georgia traders ... for we knew that that would be our inevitable condition,   (source)
    inevitable = unavoidable (certain to happen)
  • If they are girls, I have indicated plainly enough what will be their inevitable destiny.   (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • ...which, would inevitably interrupt...   (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
  • a phrase inevitably employed to designate the Huguenot heresy.   (source)
    inevitably = unavoidably (certain to happen)
  • My father hated these tearjerkers, because no matter how hard he tried to resist, he inevitably left the theater in tears.†   (source)
  • There was an inevitability to it under the circumstances, and seeing it happen uncorked horrors crowding the back of my mind—Irena's stories of Leningrad, when roving gangs had started attacking and eating people, and the police had been forced to start an anti-cannibalism unit to combat it.†   (source)
  • The forces of nature inevitably unleash themselves in such a manner that the necessity for adaptation will be stirred.†   (source)
  • I cared less about the fact that Bob was gone than about the disruption his departure would inevitably cause.†   (source)
  • She feels the back of his hand across her face as she closes her eyes and gives in to the inevitable.†   (source)
  • We ban poor women and, inevitably, their children from receiving food stamps and public housing if they have prior drug convictions.†   (source)
  • There was stomach pain from digestive problems, shoulder pain, pain from bladder infections—an inevitability, apparently, despite everyone's best efforts.†   (source)
  • Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?†   (source)
  • Yes, with each sandstorm comes the inevitable Cleaning of the Solar Cells, a time-honored tradition among hearty Martians such as myself.†   (source)
  • I now had a choice of slipping away and insulting my host or staying and becoming entangled in Chablis's inevitable denouement.†   (source)
  • And then, when I inevitably do things in a way he wouldn't, he goes and corrects my mistakes.†   (source)
  • Under ordinary circumstances Dell would have turned on the TV to some kind of reality show, and after consuming the meat loaf and enough wine, he would have fallen asleep, usually with his mouth open, which inevitably served as a spout for pink-tinged saliva.†   (source)
  • It was inevitable that transparency would come to the Circle, too.†   (source)
  • I would have accommodated its inevitability and been glad enough to get home and have Ty say, "Not too bad.†   (source)
  • Therefore, when a cop would, inevitably, advise us to park the truck and pursue our interests "on foot," Owen and I would drive back to Gravesend.†   (source)
  • I honor the instinct, and there is nothing more inevitable than a fourteen-year-old married woman becoming a mother.†   (source)
  • You didn't say that to avoid the inevitable, did you?†   (source)
  • But I realize that our separation is inevitable and I can only go so long before I'm forced into the real world where other people besides Six and Karen live.†   (source)
  • As for working at Smart Aid HQ, I knew it was a probably inevitable part of my future, but I'd been counting on at least a few more summers of freedom and four years of college before I had to lock myself in a corporate cage.†   (source)
  • And yet, Vittoria knew, for all its impiety and inevitable horror, the task at hand was inescapable.†   (source)
  • Our backs are bent by work and unanswered hope and the inevitable disappointment with our lot in life.†   (source)
  • One person I knew in grade school did fail, inevitably, but his score was close to 1000.†   (source)
  • Self-exposure was inevitable the moment she described a character's weakness; the reader was bound to speculate that she was describing herself.†   (source)
  • So maybe it would be good to stall, to delay the inevitable showdown, by going into a restaurant.†   (source)
  • Many seemed to accept jail as part of their life, as their inevitable future.†   (source)
  • He dismissed the whole business as the Inevitable Consequence of Necessary Politics.†   (source)
  • He waited for the inevitable, keeping her as comfortable as possible, and looked at maps and made lists and gathered supplies.†   (source)
  • He pushed his shoulder up against hers and nearly wept with relief when she laid her head against him Weeping again today seemed wholly inevitable.†   (source)
  • Inevitably, some of the down would escape.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS: But if the prophecy is inevitable why are we here trying to influence it?†   (source)
  • Inevitably my thoughts went to Jerome.†   (source)
  • They may occur in the coffee shop, the village square, or most frequently on a grazing boundary where a curse or a stone aimed at one of his straying sheep by another shepherd is an insult which inevitably requires a violent response.†   (source)
  • Maybe she was trying to hurry up the inevitable, skip us both to the ending, the part where Hana and I aren't friends anymore.†   (source)
  • I shake my head in disgust and accept the inevitable.†   (source)
  • I waited to see a flash of the old Laura, with the mischievous grin and inevitable wisecrack, but none of that came.†   (source)
  • Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood. —Tony Kushner, THE ILLUSION†   (source)
  • Inevitably, somebody used brass knuckles and some dude would end up with cracked ribs.†   (source)
  • As I hopped up and down, hunched and raising my arms and feet to the music, I thought about being thrown in the ocean, about how difficult it would be to know that death was inevitable.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to renew my acquaintance with her at all, but it seemed inevitable.†   (source)
  • A slip and fall at first seemed probable, then inevitable.†   (source)
  • Jenny and I were beginning to regret how recklessly we had hyped the inevitable first snowfall.†   (source)
  • And I did for a time go to the fortune-teller every day, and read my almanac more carefully even than usual, searching for some sign whether I should submit to what seemed my inevitable destiny.†   (source)
  • Not inevitably.†   (source)
  • Nor with wealth and rank—any Awer's moral outrage inevitably smelled slightly of hypocrisy, considering the comforts and privileges such an ancient house enjoyed, and while some injustices were unignorably obvious to them, some others they never saw.†   (source)
  • It was inevitable, I suppose.†   (source)
  • For the first time, it was as if she actually believed there might be a way to prevent what she had considered the inevitable.†   (source)
  • In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days.†   (source)
  • A number of the chieftains evacuated in fear of America's inevitable counterattack.†   (source)
  • Saeed for his part wished he could do something for Nadia, could protect her from what would come, even if he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.†   (source)
  • Inevitably, there was some sort of bearing or bushing failing.†   (source)
  • Both good and bad have their inevitable place in the order of things, Heraclitus believed.†   (source)
  • Yet I cannot say it was inevitable from the moment that he stepped into that room.†   (source)
  • And Tom and I hay e had another row about inevitably— Rachel.†   (source)
  • Young, like Montana, came to be viewed as a born star whose success in pro football was inevitable.†   (source)
  • But everyone could feel that change was inevitable.†   (source)
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