How to Use immovable in a Sentence

immovable

adjective
  • The officers then laid the men, immovable in the mats, across the plane rows.
    Molly O’Toole, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The shape, the cut and the fit of jeans can change, but the rest of it pretty much remains immovable.
    Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The 350-pound Davis is the immovable object in the middle.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • To me, the Pence signature is the perfect head of immovable white hair.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The name says it all: Lip stains boast immovable color.
    Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In these early episodes, the placid grin on Sudeikis’s face is immovable, as if it has been painted on.
    The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The numbers are just one of many immovable obstacles for the GOP.
    Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2020
  • For the next few years, the unstoppable force and the immovable object will be teammates.
    Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • And not long ago, that big, immovable paperweight was ready to lift off.
    Steve Hartman, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The place is rock solid, built on a foundation as immovable as that wood bar.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
  • In some cases, the truckers removed their tires and bled their brake lines to make their trucks immovable, the police said.
    New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022
  • This is a case of very resistible force meets immovable object.
    Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • So when the immovable object meets the irresistible force, who wins?
    Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • This Stars team used to be the immovable object teams hated playing against.
    Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The tape-like roll of lights is backed with 3M-brand adhesive, which can be stuck to almost any surface for immovable hold.
    Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Best of all, the divider gets turned this way and that to suit my moods, creating curves and semicircles against the backdrop of immovable straight walls.
    Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The coronavirus is held in chains, immovable and shorn of its virulence.
    Tulasi Srinivas, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
  • But the person who set the immovable screen wasn’t one of Robinson’s teammates or coaches or trainers.
    Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The matchup was an immovable object meeting an unstoppable force, only one team could walk out of the gym with the 6A title in their hands.
    Alex Chenevey, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2023
  • Some drivers didn't like the Volvo's turbo lag, others were turned off by the V70's boxy look, and a few more were annoyed by the immovable headrests that brushed the backs of their scalps.
    Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
  • According to lawyers and people who have seen the area, each cell has its own toilet, as well as an immovable iron bed and a table anchored to the wall.
    Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
  • As a male, Jordan is like a brick wall, a tank, immovable and can withstand a really strong impact.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The college admissions process has been so entrenched and immovable for decades.
    Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021
  • Here’s what to watch in Week 7: Best vs. best: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
    C.j. Doon, baltimoresun.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • But now Amazon has taken a hit from a pair of immovable forces: snarled supply chains and worker shortages.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Anybody who knows Rosen knows that strutting his and Kaplan’s immovable success couldn’t be further from the truth.
    Rod Berger, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • But in the 1980s these advances hit an immovable barrier.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The classic cheese pie from Martha Dear was secured tightly in the passenger seat, like a puppy in a car harness, immovable and ready for transport back to the ’burbs.
    Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The Journal’s opinion section has long been a bastion for some of the most stubbornly immovable—and increasingly absurd—climate denial in news media.
    Molly Taft, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Erick Smith's Michigan vs. Washington prediction The classic matchup of an immovable force versus the irresistible objection.
    USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024

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