How to Use ineluctable in a Sentence
ineluctable
adjective-
Either way, and still, all the way home, the tall man's image stands before me, ineluctable.
—Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
-
But the second assertion, Weil’s drip drip of the instants, seems ineluctable.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
-
In the Popes, on the other hand, the terrible thing seems to come from nowhere, both controlled and spontaneous, ineluctable.
—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
-
No matter what the Sox try with Sale, his track record indicates an in-season IL stint is ineluctable.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2020
-
In both, the Far North exhibits an attraction that turns ineluctable, then fatal.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
-
What emerged was a top-down system that, ever since, has seemed, absurdly, like a natural and ineluctable state of the art.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2021
-
Evil, for this frightened little Jewish boy, was as ineluctable as sunshine.
—Mark Horowitz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
-
But drinking, and drinking hard, often seems an ineluctable part of distance-hiking and sports culture at large.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2022
-
Drinking, and drinking hard, often seems an ineluctable part of distance-hiking and sports culture at large.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2022
-
Such astounding gains came from the ineluctable strangeness of software and new kinds of silicon logic.
—Mark P. Mills, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
-
Smith is well-known as a top-shelf song crafter and engaging performer, and this song is yet another testament to her ineluctable talents.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Jan. 2023
-
Indexes offer the reader multiple ways in and through the text, freeing them from the confines of an ineluctable narrative.
—Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
-
An exhibition tells the story of the origins of Buddhist art and its ineluctable influence on the region and its history.
—WSJ, 16 July 2023
-
The natural world is a cosmic, living Jenga tower, and Leopold understood the ineluctable forces that push against balance.
—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 2 June 2020
-
One hundred–plus years of wildland fire suppression and an ever hotter planet make this an ineluctable truth in the American West.
—Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 5 June 2019
-
There is an ineluctable emotional stamp on the incipit of just about all of Brahms’ mature chamber works — the opening seconds set an affective tone that can last the entire piece.
—Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
-
And the ineluctable fact that nations battle hard over resources such as multibillion-dollar piles of cash is one reason that clever technocratic designs like the Afghan Fund have failed in the past.
—Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2022
-
Dershowitz, like Trump, also has an ineluctable power to draw media attention.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2020
-
In its prickliness and insistence on the messiness and ineluctable pain of life, this is very different from the pandering, gold-grubbing titles that tend to hit theaters starting around now.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2019
-
For everything that has a beginning has an end, an ineluctable consequence of the second law of thermodynamics.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2019
-
The discussions involve the morality of violence, the nature of true forgiveness, the question of male nature, and the ineluctable responsibility borne even by men of the colony who weren’t among the attackers.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
-
Yet like all stars, this palpable humanity comes with an ineluctable facility for both holding the screen and your attention.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
-
But for anyone who’s not a weekend-midnights New Beverly habitue or even has only seen one or two, there’s the ineluctable appeal of great pop songs, well-belted — no Easter egg acknowledgement required.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Sep. 2021
-
But there remains the ineluctable sense that something is badly, mysteriously wrong—if nothing else, because neither Kawhi nor the Spurs organization seems to need, or want, to clear things up.
—Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 18 Apr. 2018
-
Still, one visual element of this erratic opening night had ineluctable power.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
-
An increasingly urbanized, empowered, and active populace is one of the ineluctable mega trends of the 21st century.
—Paul Salem, Time, 6 Jan. 2021
-
In a context such as this, secularization becomes ineluctable.
—Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 13 Dec. 2020
-
The Communist Party in China, like the Soviet one before it, is just buying time until the eventual ineluctable reckoning with freedom.
—WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
-
Gone is the original’s joyful sense of mischief; what’s left is an inoffensive piece of twaddle that never fully appreciates the ineluctable bond between community spirit and a drop of the hard stuff.
—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 11 May 2017
-
There is little doubt that our intelligence and our experiences are ineluctable consequences of the natural causal powers of our brain, rather than any supernatural ones.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'ineluctable.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated: