How to Use incontestable in a Sentence

incontestable

adjective
  • The evidence against him is incontestable.
  • That is to say, there is no one pure ur-movie, unblemished and incontestable.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • What’s incontestable is that you’ve been greatly pained by what happened.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And across red-carpet reporting, a tone of reluctance reigned even as black dress after black dress made an incontestable statement.
    — Daniel D'addario, Time, 9 Jan. 2018
  • But for me, the main question isn’t necessarily the badness of the situation, which is incontestable.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The charge that economists are more than occasionally guilty of excessive self-confidence is incontestable.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • The moralized vague, the unspecific, has the advantage of being incontestable.
    — Michael Upchurch, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
  • There are no incontestable arguments or fail-proof strategies that will always convert a conspiracy theorist to skepticism.
    — Jovan Byford, CNN, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Such is the natural order, an incontestable necessity of the protozoan parasite’s life cycle.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2014
  • The incontestable quality, originality, and global reach of her music is another.
    — Shaun Harper, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • China claims the island, a self-governing democracy that is critical to global technology supply chains, as an incontestable part of its territory.
    — Ana Swanson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
  • The advancement in the 24 years that separated their wins — embodied with such resolute strength of character by Poitier — is incontestable.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The mark was federally registered in 2015 and has since achieved incontestable status, a legal designation that strengthens ownership rights.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Pound’s visionary role in leading poetry in English into the modern, after the etiolations of the late 19th century, seems incontestable.
    — Karl Kirchwey, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The combination of these poor incentives results in money being siphoned from average Americans in a virtually incontestable fashion.
    — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • True believers would argue that yes, maybe these UFO reports aren’t especially reliable, but there really is incontestable proof of galactic visitors.
    — NBC News, 5 June 2017
  • Many experts also remained in denial until evidence of Covid’s lethality and transmissibility became incontestable.
    — David Blumenthal, STAT, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In recent decades, neuroscientists have wrenched this millennia-old question from the grip of philosophers, recognizing that the connection between neuronal activity and conscious experience is incontestable.
    — Lindsey Laughlin, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024
  • Its readership is vast, its satisfactions apparently limitless, its profitability incontestable.
    — Robert Gottlieb, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
  • But where Edgerton’s rigid rules form an incontestable hierarchy that ultimately undermines his entire family, Krasinski’s character clearly shares equally with his wife the burden of protecting and providing for his family.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Funnyman, vulgarian, auteur — Mel Brooks’s imprint on American cinema is incontestable yet scandalously undervalued.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Duesberg kept making his argument well after evidence that the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, causes AIDS became incontestable.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026

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