How to Use incorruptible in a Sentence

incorruptible

adjective
  • He was trusted, respected, and completely incorruptible.
  • All of the parties that had abused our trust could wither away in favor of incorruptible machines.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • Tombs from this era glow a rich gold, a color associated with the incorruptible flesh of the gods.
    — National Geographic, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Muntz’s scheme, woven into incorruptible rope, had saved the touchdown.
    — Stephen Witt, WIRED, 24 June 2019
  • How does one become incorruptible in business?
    — Nancy Pulciano, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2026
  • In Catholicism incorruptible saints give witness to the truth of the resurrection and life that is to come.
    — Raja Razek, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • More important was that a candidate be seen as an honest and incorruptible person.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The queen finds comfort and vindication in its candid, incorruptible voice.
    — Crista Leonard, Allure, 8 May 2018
  • All of the accounting and the settlements would be automated and incorruptible, so there would be no question as to whether the books were kosher.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • Rashid, by contrast, is seen as brutal but mysterious and incorruptible, a sort of slum Judge Dredd.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • That crucial difference creates an incorruptible platform to sell and collect digital art.
    — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Of course, not every character in Hanks’s repertoire is an incorruptible Boy Scout.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Real or imagined, their hold over us is maintained by the concept of gold as physically incorruptible but yet also as an uncontested store of value over time.
    — Luke Chittock, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Human beings aren’t infallible or incorruptible, even under oath.
    — WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022
  • ICOs are possible thanks to blockchain, the catchall term for a digital ledger that promises incorruptible storage of financial transactions.
    — Camila Russo, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
  • But all this technology is of little help without a professional and incorruptible cadre of customs officials, which Nigeria lacks.
    — Stephen Onyeiwu, Quartz Africa, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Prayer reveals our innate and incorruptible spiritual wholeness.
    — Bobby Lewis, Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2025
  • Yet for young Bangladeshis today, Jamaat represents the incorruptible while India is the mortal enemy.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Aquino, who was fondly called Noynoy or Pinoy by many Filipinos and had an image as an incorruptible politician, battled poverty and frowned over excesses by the country’s elite.
    — NBC News, 24 June 2021
  • Stressing a system that is built to be incorruptible is essential in the 21st century, as everything is instantaneously found in the matter of minutes.
    — Kirill Radchenko, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Under this protocol, when a new block is added to the chain, every computer in the system races to confirm the legitimacy of the transaction, ensuring that the chain remains incorruptible.
    — Alexander Lee, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Given that so many investigators had already failed or had been murdered in pursuit of the killers, Hoover needed the sturdiest and most incorruptible of agents to head up the investigation.
    — Dave Eggers, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • In an environment plagued by poaching and corruption, Mzimba was known for being incorruptible — a stalwart of conservation.
    — Rachel Nuwer, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The Incorruptible Warrior‘s servers could only accommodate 600 players at a time and were quickly overwhelmed by player demand as word of mouth made the game into a smash hit.
    — Susan Arendt, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2007
  • Publishers can archive their material, but a third party maintains a more incorruptible version of stories that can hold outlets accountable when it’s revised after publication.
    — Dave Lozo, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Yet Sankara’s reputation as a righteous, incorruptible figure still resonates across Africa, invoked by other beret-wearing firebrands as far as South Africa.
    — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Karki has spent much of her career within the very establishment the youth are protesting against, yet her reputation as a fearless and incorruptible jurist has appealed to many young people in the country of 30 million.
    — Sugam Pokharel, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The idealistic, morally incorruptible leader of the Autobots, there is no topping Optimus Prime.
    — SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Added to that, scholars both there and in the Middle East were more interested in the reliable and seasonable patterns of the incorruptible heavens, and less so in the unpredictable appearances of comets and guest stars.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2018
  • The Catholic News Agency reports that more than 100 incorruptible bodies have been canonized – their bodies defying the decaying process.
    — Raja Razek, CNN, 26 May 2023

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