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inexorable

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Definition unstoppable
  • as inexorable as death
inexorable = unstoppable
  • They came wave after wave in an inexorable attack.
  • Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
    H. G. Wells
  • The time and my intents are savage-wild;
    More fierce and more inexorable far
    Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
    William Shakespeare  --  Romeo and Juliet
    • inexorable = unstoppable
  • That beat—steady, inhumanly steady; inexorable.
    John Gardner  --  Grendel
    • inexorable = unstoppable
  • The inexorable facts closed in on him like prison-warders handcuffing a convict.
    Edith Wharton  --  Ethan Frome
    • inexorable = unstoppable
  • The great god Tash! inexorable Tash!
    C.S. Lewis  --  The Last Battle
    • inexorable = unstoppable
  • And in every single family, in one way or another, some such inexorable retribution is being exacted
    Henrik Ibsen  --  A Doll's House
    • inexorable = unstoppable
  • ...growing louder, more persistent, more powerful, an inexorable sound.
    Jean Rhys  --  Wide Sargasso Sea
    • inexorable = unstoppable
  • her husband was inexorably resolved to cut or wrench it away.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne  --  The Birthmark
    • inexorably = absolutely (in an unstoppable manner)
  • In the name of Tash the irresistible, the inexorable.
    C.S. Lewis  --  The Horse and His Boy
    • inexorable = unstoppable
  • Buck was inexorable.
    Jack London  --  The Call of the Wild
    • inexorable = unstoppable
  • I am descended from Tash, the inexorable, the irresistible.
    C.S. Lewis  --  The Horse and His Boy
  • In the name of Tash the irresistible, the inexorable forward!
    C.S. Lewis  --  The Horse and His Boy
  • May the strength of Tash the inexorable, the irresistible be in your sword and lance.
    C.S. Lewis  --  The Horse and His Boy
  • They who so fondly hoped the result, began to believe that youth and the bland airs of June were overcoming the inexorable enemy.
    Cooper, James Fenimore  --  Imagination and Heart
  • He was always most gentle when most inexorable.
    Montgomery, Lucy Maud  --  The Golden Road
  • Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him
  • What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Jane went back into the kitchen to the inexorable tasks that death has no power, even for a day, to blot from existence.
    Wiggin, Kate Douglas  --  Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm

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