How to Use inextricable in a Sentence

inextricable

adjective
  • He argues that there is an inextricable link between poverty and poor health.
  • At the heart of it all is accepting the notion, once and for all, that class and race are inextricable.
    Anne Branigin, The Root, 14 Oct. 2017
  • In other words, the entire moment had a vibe, greater than the sum of its parts and inextricable from each of them.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2021
  • For him, the silliness of the show is inextricable from its glory.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • So, for me, the queerness of the story is inextricable with the narrative, and therefore that was that.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Sorkin had been a heavy smoker since high school — two packs a day of Merits — and the habit had long been inextricable from his writing process.
    Michael Paulson, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The rise of pandemic pathogens is an inextricable part of the modern world.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024
  • Every culture comes with its own set of beloved tools that are inextricable from the foods that define it.
    Naz Deravian, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2024
  • For Schade, poke is inextricable from his life as a fisherman and all its risks.
    Author: Ligaya Mishan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • And though prompted by the pandemic, many of the shifts can be traced to the inextricable link between business and leisure travel.
    Bruce Wallin, National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Aldridge, the guy who supposedly had no guts, is now inextricable from the Spurs’ soul.
    Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Mar. 2018
  • But somewhere along the line the anthem became inextricable from sports, and politicians have been more than eager to pounce on this.
    Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Of course, our ideas about wealth — who has it, who deserves it, whose displays of it are tasteful and whose are gauche — are inextricable from gender and race.
    Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
  • Why has music become such an inextricable part of the ad and branding space?
    Kevin Warwick, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2019
  • For thousands of years, the story of pigeons has been inextricable from the story of humans.
    Sarah Sloat, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2022
  • In the two-plus months since, Queen has become a bellwether for the team’s defense, his highlights and lowlights often inextricable from the Ravens’ own.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The dramas of their videos are often inextricable from their lives.
    Jonah Engel Bromwich, New York Times, 9 July 2019
  • That said, there are couples who do see the need for gifts, viewing them as an inextricable part of the wedding tradition.
    Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2023
  • From the moment her career began in the late 1990s, Carlile’s name has been inextricable from activism.
    Taylor Mims, Billboard, 2 June 2022
  • The two are inextricable for Kwenders, even in the visual aspect of Paradox.
    Jonathan Zwickel, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2022
  • The inextricable link between the sports business and the TV business has never been closer.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Because shadow banks are funded by loans and lines of credit from big banks, the failure of one is inextricable from the other.
    Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020
  • But, perhaps more than any other band of that stature, U2’s present is inextricable from their home country’s past.
    Sarah Grant, SPIN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Vince McMahon is inextricable from the deal, no matter his role with the new company.
    Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Gravity is both inextricable from our daily lives and hard to reconcile with our sense of the world.
    Amelia Urry, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Her dream of a supportive lover sets her apart from her fellow denizens of Covent Garden, where the cycle of poverty is inextricable from the cycle of abuse.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Divorce is rarely celebrated in the same way, but the two are inextricable.
    April White, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
  • The condition of the writer relates to the condition of the woman; these are inextricable in Zambreno’s work.
    Alicia Kennedy, refinery29.com, 30 June 2021
  • Indeed, many will be of the belief that Harris’s record, as Biden’s vice president, is inextricable from current U.S. policy.
    Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • What qualifies as important is inextricable from what goes viral, and vice versa.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 July 2024

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