How to Use inevitable in a Sentence

inevitable

adjective
  • Yet none of this is inevitable.
    — Elise Felicione, STAT, 26 Feb. 2026
  • But that is far from inevitable.
    — Jan Mischke, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But this was far from inevitable.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The goal to come was inevitable.
    — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Of course, some weeds are inevitable.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
  • But none of this was, in fact, inevitable.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That now seems kind of inevitable, right?
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The plea-change was inevitable.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
  • What, in one’s life, is inevitable?
    — Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Tate called this labyrinthine project inevitable.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, this isn’t inevitable.
    — Nafees Alam, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, this isn’t inevitable.
    — Nafees Alam, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But the lack of a deal could mean those are inevitable.
    — Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The thing that scares me the most is that death is inevitable.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 22 Apr. 2023
  • For a long time, Trout was inevitable.
    — Sam Blum, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Is that inevitable at an all-girls’ school, whether at sea or on land?
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Still, Joy’s path to jazz wasn’t inevitable.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Oct. 2025
  • But progress is inevitable, Clemons said.
    — Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Stress is an inevitable part of leading at the top.
    — Rachel Durose, Harvard Business Review, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Scary, of course, the Alien does show up, inevitable.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This was not the squash match that seemed inevitable on paper.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • But hack at the roots and collapse is inevitable.
    — Paul Polman, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That means some smoke and a funky burning smell are inevitable.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 18 Dec. 2018
  • There will be inevitable setbacks here and there.
    — Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Changes in the cockpit are a bleak but inevitable part of the sport.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 8 July 2017
  • After the fact, its fall came to seem inevitable.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • This was inevitable on crowded war-era trains.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • But this is not an inevitable outcome.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Rust is inevitable, but there is a way to keep the decay at bay.
    — Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Then there’s the fact that aging is inevitable.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Health, 1 Apr. 2026

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