How to Use inextricable in a Sentence

inextricable

adjective
  • He argues that there is an inextricable link between poverty and poor health.
  • For him, the silliness of the show is inextricable from its glory.
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Every culture comes with its own set of beloved tools that are inextricable from the foods that define it.
    — Naz Deravian, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Every culture comes with its own set of beloved tools that are inextricable from the foods that define it.
    — Naz Deravian, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • At the heart of it all is accepting the notion, once and for all, that class and race are inextricable.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 14 Oct. 2017
  • The dramas of their videos are often inextricable from their lives.
    — Jonah Engel Bromwich, New York Times, 9 July 2019
  • Why has music become such an inextricable part of the ad and branding space?
    — Kevin Warwick, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2019
  • For Schade, poke is inextricable from his life as a fisherman and all its risks.
    — Author: Ligaya Mishan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • In other words, the entire moment had a vibe, greater than the sum of its parts and inextricable from each of them.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The rise of pandemic pathogens is an inextricable part of the modern world.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024
  • The two are connected in an inextricable way by their siblings.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Gravity is both inextricable from our daily lives and hard to reconcile with our sense of the world.
    — Amelia Urry, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Aldridge, the guy who supposedly had no guts, is now inextricable from the Spurs’ soul.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Divorce is rarely celebrated in the same way, but the two are inextricable.
    — April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
  • Divorce is rarely celebrated in the same way, but the two are inextricable.
    — April White, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
  • That said, there are couples who do see the need for gifts, viewing them as an inextricable part of the wedding tradition.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2023
  • So, for me, the queerness of the story is inextricable with the narrative, and therefore that was that.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But somewhere along the line the anthem became inextricable from sports, and politicians have been more than eager to pounce on this.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
  • For thousands of years, the story of pigeons has been inextricable from the story of humans.
    — Sarah Sloat, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The pair share an inextricable bond, tied by a dark secret, even as Sula leaves to travel the country.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Her work centers on the inextricable link between our bodies and land and water systems.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The joy of creation has become inextricable from the agony of witnessing.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Sorkin had been a heavy smoker since high school — two packs a day of Merits — and the habit had long been inextricable from his writing process.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Because shadow banks are funded by loans and lines of credit from big banks, the failure of one is inextricable from the other.
    — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020
  • For Mastin, the craft of music-making is inextricable from her friendships.
    — Ludwig Hurtado, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Of course, our ideas about wealth — who has it, who deserves it, whose displays of it are tasteful and whose are gauche — are inextricable from gender and race.
    — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
  • And though prompted by the pandemic, many of the shifts can be traced to the inextricable link between business and leisure travel.
    — Bruce Wallin, National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The art of directing is inextricable from the process of producing.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Whether art is inextricable from the artist is central to many of the buzzy dramas vying for trophies during this year’s awards season, too.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
  • But, perhaps more than any other band of that stature, U2’s present is inextricable from their home country’s past.
    — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 17 Mar. 2023

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