How to Use immutable in a Sentence

immutable

adjective
  • But that doesn't mean the lines must be set in immutable stone.
    Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Not that these things are immutable, but there was a lot of talk about getting rid of the treaty.
    Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2017
  • But to say, 'Despite those truths and that fact, that's not immutable.
    Allie Yang, ABC News, 18 June 2021
  • For those of us who will not welcome death, there is one immutable truth.
    Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2017
  • That’s the immutable message of March Madness: Win now or go home.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • From our vantage point, the skies can seem predictable and immutable.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The immutable heavens stood in contrast to the ever-changing realm of Earth.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 9 Oct. 2017
  • This is the immutable mandate of mountain climbing, the unbreakable bond of the rope.
    Mark Jenkins, Outside Online, 20 June 2019
  • For years, live sports and news have been the cornerstone of the immutable cable bundle.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Once a transaction is made, the blockchain remains an immutable record of it.
    Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Luckily, none of these are immutable facts of the universe.
    Libby Watson, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
  • One of life’s immutable rules is that beer and ice cream rarely go together.
    Gary Dzen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • This is the same immutable sky that Markham knew sleeping out as a bush pilot, and also as a girl in Njoro.
    Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
  • The alternative is to take the low-growth world we’ve been living in as an immutable fact of life, and get used to it.
    Neil Irwin, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017
  • There was a time when that immutable, eternal fact annoyed me.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
  • This story is one of the few in the collection in which the outside world impinges on the immutable rural scene.
    Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • To some, the sea seemed too large, too immutable, to do something so meek as disappear.
    Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The data didn’t just show that people’s lives were guided by immutable facts like class and race.
    German Lopez, New York Times, 25 July 2024
  • Darwin also came of age at a time when the idea that species were immutable had begun to crumble.
    Mano Singham, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The standard caveats about life with Mr. Trump remain immutable: No one can control him in earnest.
    Michael C. Bender, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • No matter how smart your engineers, the laws of physics are immutable.
    Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 19 June 2024
  • Tweaks have been tried along the way, yet the basic format has been stubbornly immutable.
    Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Less clear is the best way to go about achieving that goal using some type of immutable system of record for tracking changes.
    Moshe Bar, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm.
    Maggie Nelson, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • And doing business with China is an immutable fact of life.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 9 June 2022
  • Just the sound of it — a 100-year flood, longer than a lifetime — lulls us into believing such events are rare and immutable acts of God.
    Brian Bledsoe, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Even for the Senate, the political map is not immutable.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The immutable laws of economics will siphon jobs to low-income countries.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
  • The sequel never even refers to the immutable law of capitalism that was the core argument of its predecessor.
    Arvind Subramanian, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
  • Then there's the immutable fact of biological aging itself.
    Alice Park, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024

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