How to Use incorruptible in a Sentence

incorruptible

adjective
  • He was trusted, respected, and completely incorruptible.
  • The other one would be lonely and damaged but incorruptible: one with the sun, one with the moon.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
  • In Catholicism incorruptible saints give witness to the truth of the resurrection and life that is to come.
    Raja Razek, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • All of the parties that had abused our trust could wither away in favor of incorruptible machines.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • Tombs from this era glow a rich gold, a color associated with the incorruptible flesh of the gods.
    National Geographic, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Getting away with a lot of crimes, besting the Task Force, and corrupting the incorruptible Rep. Hudson?
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 June 2023
  • All of the accounting and the settlements would be automated and incorruptible, so there would be no question as to whether the books were kosher.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • But now the very life of the master thief is in danger: the determined and incorruptible Inspector Ginko and his team have finally found a way to draw him out into the open.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Rashid, by contrast, is seen as brutal but mysterious and incorruptible, a sort of slum Judge Dredd.
    The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Muntz’s scheme, woven into incorruptible rope, had saved the touchdown.
    Stephen Witt, WIRED, 24 June 2019
  • The Incorruptible Warrior‘s servers could only accommodate 600 players at a time and were quickly overwhelmed by player demand as word of mouth made the game into a smash hit.
    Susan Arendt, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2007
  • Aquino, who was fondly called Noynoy or Pinoy by many Filipinos and had an image as an incorruptible politician, battled poverty and frowned over excesses by the country’s elite.
    NBC News, 24 June 2021
  • Of course, not every character in Hanks’s repertoire is an incorruptible Boy Scout.
    A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The queen finds comfort and vindication in its candid, incorruptible voice.
    Crista Leonard, Allure, 8 May 2018
  • Added to that, scholars both there and in the Middle East were more interested in the reliable and seasonable patterns of the incorruptible heavens, and less so in the unpredictable appearances of comets and guest stars.
    Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2018
  • More important was that a candidate be seen as an honest and incorruptible person.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2019
  • ICOs are possible thanks to blockchain, the catchall term for a digital ledger that promises incorruptible storage of financial transactions.
    Camila Russo, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
  • Given that so many investigators had already failed or had been murdered in pursuit of the killers, Hoover needed the sturdiest and most incorruptible of agents to head up the investigation.
    Dave Eggers, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Real or imagined, their hold over us is maintained by the concept of gold as physically incorruptible but yet also as an uncontested store of value over time.
    Luke Chittock, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Under this protocol, when a new block is added to the chain, every computer in the system races to confirm the legitimacy of the transaction, ensuring that the chain remains incorruptible.
    Alexander Lee, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2022
  • The Catholic News Agency reports that more than 100 incorruptible bodies have been canonized – their bodies defying the decaying process.
    Raja Razek, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • Stressing a system that is built to be incorruptible is essential in the 21st century, as everything is instantaneously found in the matter of minutes.
    Kirill Radchenko, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Yet Sankara’s reputation as a righteous, incorruptible figure still resonates across Africa, invoked by other beret-wearing firebrands as far as South Africa.
    New York Times, 9 Mar. 2022
  • As for what the 500 Days of Summer actor hopes HitRecord participants experience during the open call, is a sense of fulfillment in simply making art and a pure, incorruptible love for creativity.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Unlike Trump, López Obrador is no political outsider, but a career politician who has managed to burnish his image as incorruptible and authentic.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 1 July 2018
  • If Peters seems a parody of the lecherous clergyman and the ruthless academic, Mr. Sisman is a model of the incorruptible biographer.
    Ben Downing, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Human integrity can be infinitely compromised, but Powell is sure of one thing: dogs are incorruptible.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 22 June 2018
  • But all this technology is of little help without a professional and incorruptible cadre of customs officials, which Nigeria lacks.
    Stephen Onyeiwu, Quartz Africa, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Debates about the state of the Justice Department often seem to proceed from the premise that career employees are incorruptible, and perhaps that most have quietly objected to the worst impulses of this administration.
    Ankush Khardori, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Bitcoin, which emerged out of the ashes of the 2008 financial crisis, first caught on among libertarians and anti-establishment activists who saw it as the cornerstone of a new, incorruptible monetary system.
    New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022

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