All 10 Uses
inevitable
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- A visitor is inevitably struck by the impression that Iwo Jima is a very small place to have hosted such a big battle.†
Chpt 1.inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
- The soldiers assigned to them had the mission of killing as many invaders as possible before their own inevitable deaths.†
Chpt 1. *inevitable = certain to happen
- But inevitably they opened up—as they had not opened up to phone calls from strangers, or to the press.†
Chpt 2.inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
- The principal launched his inevitable inquisition.†
Chpt 2.inevitable = certain to happen
- The following day, most of those same listeners, including hundreds of thousands of children, tuned in again to hear President Franklin Roosevelt intone the six-and-a-half-minute speech whose key phrases would resound in American folklore: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan...With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God!†
Chpt 3.
- It moves with the inevitability of a railroad schedule.†
Chpt 6.inevitability = certainty that something will happen
- Suribachi had not fallen, not quite, not yet, but victory now seemed inevitable.†
Chpt 9.inevitable = certain to happen
- Their alertness, their finely tuned instinct for self-preservation, had inevitably deteriorated into a trancelike state.†
Chpt 13.inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
- Inevitably, perhaps, Ira turned again to the anesthetizing relief that he had sought during the Bond Tour.†
Chpt 17.
- Ira took to stuffing an American flag in his back pocket while working in the cotton field, to satisfy the inevitable request of the strangers with their cameras.†
Chpt 18.inevitable = certain to happen
Definitions:
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(1)
(inevitable) certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)