How to Use implacable in a Sentence

implacable

adjective

• He has an implacable hatred for his political opponents.
• Blanchett is implacable in the face of the applause, the praise.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2022
• Langer, implacable as ever, birdied the par-5 third and the par-4 fifth to move one shot ahead.
  — Ben Nuckols, The Denver Post, 28 May 2017
• And above all of it, those two implacable signs: #YouNext.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• But the implacable nature of the virus may soon test this support.
  — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2020
• Those regulators have been implacable in the wake of the trade war this spring.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• But the old life of pressing olives and herding sheep is faltering in the face of an implacable drought.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• And after a year of protests, what seemed in 2018 like stiffness — in both texts and music — now seems more implacable strength.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• To his great credit, Bret Stephens has been one of Trump’s implacable enemies on the right.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2020
• The United States and China had been implacable foes for decades.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
• All of these last four films follow in the path of Cimino’s first three as outpourings of loss and grief in the face of implacable power.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 May 2022
• As my long career unspooled, of course, Iran went from a U.S. ally to an implacable foe.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 9 Dec. 2019
• With Watts remaining implacable in his brilliance, the groove was allowed to slip and slide.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2019
• The battle with covid-19 is one with an implacable enemy in which the politicians seem always to be losing, and struggling to catch up with the pace of events.
  — The Economist, 13 Apr. 2020
• So implacable a quest could be taken as foolish or futile, but Gray prefers to frame it in terms of heroic striving.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
• His actions as a statesman and diplomat have earned him the implacable contempt of many critics.
  — Armen Sarkissian, WSJ, 25 May 2023
• It's got subtle kick from garlic coupled with the implacable frisson of green herbs.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 26 Sep. 2017
• For three decades, Wayne LaPierre has been the implacable face of the gun lobby, a scourge of the left who argued that giving ground on gun control was akin to giving up on America.
  — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2021
• Only the novel’s own eerie light can pierce it, with a voice as implacable as the weather itself; a voice like that of an unforgiving God.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022
• In the face of an opaque, implacable adversary, strategists in Washington are keen to avoid a prolonged war.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
• Also right: The clothes — Blanchett wears everything with implacable style even when Lou is dressing down.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
• An implacable observation, as France seemed far from the level of the best nation in the world currently.
  — Assile Toufaily, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Moll’s movie doesn’t leave behind the same deep, implacable chill of those earlier works, but its lingering rage and sorrow are no less easy to wave aside.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• Now a senator, Uribe was an implacable foe of the rebels during his presidency and opposed the 2016 peace deal.
  — Chris Kraul, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Caught between these implacable forces, Scotch producers big and small are withering on the vine.
  — Alasdair Lane, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• In the face of Boy Willie’s obvious machinations, Berniece is implacable.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2022
• Public health experts warn that the implacable spread of the virus means the outbreak could easily continue well into next year.
  — Denise Grady, New York Times, 17 July 2019
• Russia is, after all, a close ally of Saudi's most implacable foe -- Iran.
  — Matthew Chance, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
• At the same time, Inspector Maigret is the anti-Inspector Javert, one of the least implacable policemen on record.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• Now working as a police dispatcher, the only thing that has kept him going is his implacable refusal to accept that she might be gone forever.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024