Sample Sentences for
inevitable
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  • no longer thought of as inevitable and unavoidable  (source)
  • An inevitable verdict, maybe, but usually it takes 'em just a few minutes.  (source)
    inevitable = something that is certain to happen
  • Another confrontation seemed inevitable, and part of him simply wanted to get it over with.  (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
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  • I stared at the open gate, floating in the empty air, and waited for the inevitable, final message to appear in the center of my display, the words I knew every other avatar in the sector must be seeing at this very moment: GAME OVER.  (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • 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
  • It is not a matter of trust any longer, it is a matter of inevitability.  (source)
    inevitability = certainty that something will happen
  • Tess was taken completely by surprise, and she yielded to his embrace with unreflecting inevitableness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • There is much of the will to control in every act of man, and particularly in those magical ceremonies that are thought to bring rain clouds, cure sickness, or stay the flood; nevertheless the dominant motive in all truly religious (as opposed to black-magical) ceremonial is that of submission to the inevitables of destiny—and in the seasonal festivals this motive is particularly apparent.†  (source)
  • He shrugged, with a fatalistic acceptance of the inevitabilities of life.†  (source)
  • ...Gus told us that he feared oblivion, and I told him that he was fearing something universal and inevitable,  (source)
    inevitable = certain to happen
  • [of time] I feel it pressing against me as seven o'clock inevitably draws closer,  (source)
    inevitably = with certainty that it will come
  • It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it.  (source)
    inevitability = the certainty that it will happen
  • She had dropped sideways in Gerty's big arm-chair, her head buried where lately Selden's had leaned, in a beauty of abandonment that drove home to Gerty's aching senses the inevitableness of her own defeat.†  (source)
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