How to Use inalienable in a Sentence

inalienable

adjective

• Forty-five years ago, the Supreme Court turned its back on the inalienable right to life.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• While some of the text is a high-minded defense of inalienable rights, much of it is a recitation of historic grievances.
  — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• This is about protecting the inalienable rights that were granted from God.
  — al, 12 Jan. 2020
• The Eighth is the only inalienable right the unborn have to protect them from changes in government thinking.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 24 May 2018
• If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final.
  — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 30 Dec. 2022
• If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. . . .
  — Larry P. Arnn, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022
• My inalienable right to wander around footloose and fancy-free just got snuffed.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 27 July 2021
• Your guy has an inalienable right to advance his career not an inch further.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
• This does not preclude him from the aforementioned inalienable right.
  — Ella Ceron, Teen Vogue, 1 Feb. 2016
• In our system, inalienable rights — including the one to self-defense — can’t be swept away by angry crowds.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2018
• From inalienable rights to Iron Man, Americans churn out the concepts and culture that make the modern world tick, more and better than anyone else.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2021
• Oh, and protecting the inalienable right to a cheeseburger.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2019
• We were born with inalienable rights bestowed upon us by our creator.
  — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 25 Nov. 2020
• This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 19 July 2021
• Sounds like this toddler is learning about her inalienable rights early.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2016
• People’s control over their own bodies is an inalienable right that must be restored.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• People’s control over their own bodies is an inalienable right that must be restored.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 23 June 2023
• In a nation where the Constitution grants citizens inalienable rights, the line between those rights and collapse of law and order is not an easy one to draw.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2021
• The map of China used in the presentation omitted Taiwan, which Beijing insists is an inalienable part of the country.
  — Trefor Moss, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
• After all, baseball’s one inalienable source of perspective is the standings; Boston’s space there is clear.
  — Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Rizzi got in his good-natured scoff, because special teams are an inalienable fact of life for undrafted rookies.
  — Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• To ride the train home without being assaulted because of the color of your skin or your religious beliefs, is an inalienable right.
  — Tony Hernandez, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
• Our founding documents say we're endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, and the first one mentioned is life.
  — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2022
• The question at hand is not how to solve the 'gun problem', but how to keep our schools and all places of gathering safe, without compromising the inalienable rights all Americans share.
  — Mark Somerville, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2018
• No person or group should ever be denied their inalienable human rights.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• These were the doctrine that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that therefore the source of the just powers of government must be derived from the consent of the governed.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 2 July 2021
• Another brave First Amendment soldier speaks out in defense of his inalienable rights.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 June 2014
• Then again, no club goes through a season as utterly convinced as Real Madrid that winning the Champions League is its inalienable right.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 1 May 2018
• Grift Capitalism is built on a strong foundation of four inalienable rights.
  — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• So take advantage of said roster by exercising one of the fantasy owner’s inalienable rights: to be a homer.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024