How to Use ineluctable in a Sentence

ineluctable

adjective
  • Either way, and still, all the way home, the tall man's image stands before me, ineluctable.
    — Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Evil, for this frightened little Jewish boy, was as ineluctable as sunshine.
    — Mark Horowitz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • But the second assertion, Weil’s drip drip of the instants, seems ineluctable.
    — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • But drinking, and drinking hard, often seems an ineluctable part of distance-hiking and sports culture at large.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Drinking, and drinking hard, often seems an ineluctable part of distance-hiking and sports culture at large.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Vance is steadily stacking his cards as a singer-songwriter of ineluctable artistic power.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 May 2024
  • What emerged was a top-down system that, ever since, has seemed, absurdly, like a natural and ineluctable state of the art.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2021
  • In both, the Far North exhibits an attraction that turns ineluctable, then fatal.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Not the musical act but the ineluctable, relentless passage of time that is all that separates us from the grave.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
  • Such astounding gains came from the ineluctable strangeness of software and new kinds of silicon logic.
    — Mark P. Mills, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
  • What ineluctable vision, a vision writing was so far from comprehending?
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In the Popes, on the other hand, the terrible thing seems to come from nowhere, both controlled and spontaneous, ineluctable.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • Smith is well-known as a top-shelf song crafter and engaging performer, and this song is yet another testament to her ineluctable talents.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Still, one visual element of this erratic opening night had ineluctable power.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
  • Dershowitz, like Trump, also has an ineluctable power to draw media attention.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2020
  • In a context such as this, secularization becomes ineluctable.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 13 Dec. 2020
  • No matter what the Sox try with Sale, his track record indicates an in-season IL stint is ineluctable.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Indexes offer the reader multiple ways in and through the text, freeing them from the confines of an ineluctable narrative.
    — Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
  • It’s meant to provide an ineluctable link between the modern event and the ancient Greek original on which it was initially modelled.
    — Nicholas Paphitis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Yet like all stars, this palpable humanity comes with an ineluctable facility for both holding the screen and your attention.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
  • For everything that has a beginning has an end, an ineluctable consequence of the second law of thermodynamics.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2019
  • One hundred–plus years of wildland fire suppression and an ever hotter planet make this an ineluctable truth in the American West.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 5 June 2019
  • An exhibition tells the story of the origins of Buddhist art and its ineluctable influence on the region and its history.
    — WSJ, 16 July 2023
  • The natural world is a cosmic, living Jenga tower, and Leopold understood the ineluctable forces that push against balance.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 2 June 2020
  • There is an ineluctable emotional stamp on the incipit of just about all of Brahms’ mature chamber works — the opening seconds set an affective tone that can last the entire piece.
    — Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In its prickliness and insistence on the messiness and ineluctable pain of life, this is very different from the pandering, gold-grubbing titles that tend to hit theaters starting around now.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • With tendrils of blonde hair always trying to escape her wimple, there’s an ineluctable sensuality about Agnieszka.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Second, the history of third-party presidential candidacies is one of ineluctable failure.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • There is little doubt that our intelligence and our experiences are ineluctable consequences of the natural causal powers of our brain, rather than any supernatural ones.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
  • An increasingly urbanized, empowered, and active populace is one of the ineluctable mega trends of the 21st century.
    — Paul Salem, Time, 6 Jan. 2021

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