How to Use irreconcilable in a Sentence

irreconcilable

adjective
  • The two sides were not quite irreconcilable.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Two things happened at the end of this summer that seemed irreconcilable.
    — Sarah Miller, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The root of the sea’s danger is an irreconcilable legal view.
    — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • In the heat of the moment, an issue might feel irreconcilable.
    — Matthew Meehan, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But that claim seemed irreconcilable with the project’s scale within a park that already had such limited open space.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Gary’s life, like any showbiz kid’s life, is a thing of irreconcilable puzzle pieces that nonetheless fit.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Great artists are often prey to a single disturbing or irreconcilable idea that simply won’t leave them alone.
    — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Those irreconcilable truths are but one reason why things start going so very wrong inside the Pounds household.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • The team found, again, an irreconcilable mismatch between the friends and the Wigners.
    — George Musser, Science | AAAS, 17 Aug. 2020
  • By the way, this is exactly how a couple ends up with irreconcilable differences.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
  • What becomes clear is that a perhaps irreconcilable tension exists between a good story about kink and a good story about what kink means.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Both cited irreconcilable differences for the split and asked for joint legal and physical custody of their four kids.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Love, with both people and musicals, isn’t enough when the differences are irreconcilable.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Lebanon’s government, which has pledged to bring all weapons under state control, is caught between these irreconcilable demands.
    — Euan Ward, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
  • The vow to avoid war in Iran, for example, seems largely irreconcilable with the decision to wage war on Iran.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • One year into the pandemic, the full extent to which business suffered irreconcilable losses remains to be seen or felt.
    — Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The events of Manolete’s early life are fluid in different tellings, and the details are often irreconcilable.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • In one sketch, a husband and wife decide to get a divorce due to irreconcilable political differences.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The Game alum cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the divorce.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The two parties now have two largely irreconcilable visions for how a Supreme Court justice should decide cases on the high court.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The irreconcilable conflict between generations is at the heart of this season.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
  • In her divorce filing, Mowry cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2022
  • But the documentary reinforced that the rift between the brothers was deep, abiding and, for now, irreconcilable.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The papers cite irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split and request that neither woman receive spousal support.
    — CBS News, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The pictures embody the knot of the artist’s anxieties — memories not his own, fractured and irreconcilable with how his life unfolded.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • These vivid scenes paint a picture of seemingly irreconcilable division.
    — Justin Angle, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Ask around Beijing and Washington, and one is likely to hear irreconcilable answers.
    — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The issues involved feel irreconcilable, because many of those engaged in the debate believe that their positions represent the moral high ground.
    — Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The papers cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, and indicated that the pair signed a prenuptial agreement.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • If the first stage of 1848 was the victory of a cross-class alliance, the whirlwind of the summer saw the rebirth of irreconcilable class hatred.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023

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