How to Use inexorable in a Sentence

inexorable

adjective
  • That is the inexorable force out there, and green shoots abound!
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Still, the album and the movie exert an inexorable hold on me.
    — Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 25 May 2017
  • Here are some highlights of the inexorable march of Italian food to the top.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Ready meals, the rise of which had come to seem inexorable, have not kept up with the general rise in grocery sales.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2020
  • The only thing that slowed the Tigers’ inexorable game-winning drive was a cat which ran across the field.
    — Jimmy Wigfield, al, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The inexorable lengthening of days as spring turns to summer spirals my sense of loss.
    — Jake Stern, Outside Online, 3 July 2024
  • The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling their condemned.
    — Mario Nicolais, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
  • There may not be a decisive break but a steady, inexorable erosion of support.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict.
    — Michelle Manetti, Good Housekeeping, 26 Aug. 2018
  • Department stores have been on an inexorable slide into oblivion over the last three decades.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • My seven years of working on this have been the slow inexorable death of Kendall Roy.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • In the true, inexorable tradition of Greek tragedy, there is no getting out of it.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
  • Evil, as conceived by Stephen King, is an inexorable force as old as the world itself.
    — Michael Nordine, Variety, 23 Sep. 2023
  • That long runtime allows Dominik to give it a slow, inexorable rhythm.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Now most of the world makes or is trying to make features, swelling Annecy’s inexorable growth.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • Since the start of October, the rise in cases has been steady and inexorable, with no plateau in sight.
    — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Meanwhile, a deeper truth emerges, more about the inexorable march of time than integrity.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024
  • The music reminds you that the stakes are ancient but low, that there is no danger in the show’s world that is inexorable.
    — Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Driving the sharp increase is the inexorable jump in daily cases.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Still, their progress, made easier by supremacy in the air, appeared inexorable.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Either way, the nearly decade-old site has become an inexorable fact of life in the present design landscape.
    — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The tide on Brian Wilson’s life has begun its inexorable roll out to sea.
    — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The Spin Doctors may be hold the record for the slowest inexorable climb of an album up the charts.
    — Mel Shields, sacbee, 14 June 2018
  • The inexorable gears of profit appear to be slowing for US tech.
    — Wired, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Despite his inexorable link to Mayfield’s injury and the end of his career here, the two have kept in touch.
    — cleveland, 25 July 2022
  • Without distance, Rishi knew the inexorable love for his art, for creation, would suck him in and never let go.
    — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2017
  • Ice once stored atop one the planet’s largest islands is now water drawn by the inexorable force of gravity into the world’s oceans.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2019
  • The camera keeps rolling and through the inexorable march of time, the burger sits, the lettuce wilts, the tomato droops, and mold grows on the burger.
    — Melissa Locker, Time, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The tech-heavy Nasdaq has lost 6 percent over the past two weeks, halting what seemed like an inexorable rally in tech stocks.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Tham’s, point to a new Parlour Tapes brimming on the horizon, inexorable as a sunrise.
    — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2021

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