How to Use inviolable in a Sentence

inviolable

adjective

• And, of course, the inviolable truth that the dilettante boy king remains in charge, come what may.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Oct. 2022
• The other extreme would holler from the roof about his inviolable right to own his guns.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2018
• That means cyclists around the world may be blessed with truly inviolable locks for the first time ever.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2020
• The inviolable rules that once gave a sense of rhythm and harmony to even the busiest emergency rooms have in some cases been cast aside.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
• The seal of the confessional, or the relationship with God that’s carried through the priest and with the person, is inviolable.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
• The binge-it-all-at-once model, for example, is no longer inviolable.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 June 2022
• For fans of the 2004 film, which for many is a perfect, inviolable, almost sacrosanct thing, this means that this will be, every once in a while, redundant.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• But the one inviolable rule is that they are not allowed to proselytize.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 30 May 2017
• The latter had had a heart made of polished ice, which, inviolable and immovable, had long ago absorbed what warmth could be found in Bella’s blood.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
• This in turn has created a culture in which cheap meat is abundant, and access to it has achieved the aura of an inviolable human right.
  — Liz Specht, Wired, 20 May 2020
• Then Durón rammed Gracia, breaking one of sport’s most inviolable rules.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2021
• Then Durón rammed Gracia, breaking one of sport's most inviolable rules.
  — Jere Longman New York Times, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
• The other e-bike threshold, and one that seems a little more inviolable, is a 750-watt max for motors (or: one horsepower).
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2021
• At the Golden Globes, Glover paired his soft, mocha suit with black patent cap toes, demonstrating that one of the central tenets of menswear -- never pair brown with black -- isn't inviolable after all.
  — Adam Wray, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2017
• The Supreme Court has decided that the Second Amendment is a nearly inviolable civil right, which means that there are very few ways to take guns away from people.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• Nothing is more swoon-worthy than his inviolable sense of respect for Grace, not just as a woman, but as a human being.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Hence, the nation to them is not all holy, a thing inviolate and inviolable, a thing that a man dare not sell or dishonour on pain of eternal perdition.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 7 Sep. 2020
• And lurking within, at the foot of the holy mountain known as Nanda Devi, lies an inviolable Shangri-la of golden grassland, silent but for the rumble of avalanches and the plaintive bleats of wild sheep.
  — National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2019
• Agriculture’s claim to the Colorado is inviolable, if only because the irrigated fields of the basin provide so much of our food.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• The right to vote is a sacred, inviolable right of American citizens.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2021
• On Friday, Ulmer sided with the college and the state in regarding the 1878 law not as an inviolable contract, but as a statute that lawmakers can rescind.
  — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Dec. 2022
• Rushdie was saying that this is not merely a failure of language, but an expression of the isolation of an elite that thought its power was inviolable.
  — Aatish Taseer, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2020
• The more things change, the more things stay the same, appeared to be the proposition of two Wall Street insiders on the current entertainment landscape and the inviolable position of sports within it.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Oct. 2023
• The time that produced Mr. Trump has proved to be another one, a moment when the unthinkable has become routine and precepts that once seemed inviolable have been tested.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2019
• Priorities of care, of friends and family — yes, those were altered to a degree, but writing is its own inviolable thing.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• The governor’s lawyer has said Minton can appoint a special judge from among those judges who took office since 2014 and are in a new type of pension plan that has no inviolable contract protection.
  — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2018
• There are no red lines, core policy beliefs, or inviolable principles, just a willingness to adapt to the moods of his conference.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• The same kind of dangerous myth-making about legal norms that made Roe v. Wade seem inviolable is what got us here, and what further enables the right’s all-out, deeply unpopular assault on our rights.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
• The charter insists that the right to freedom of religion and conscience, rooted in the inviolable dignity of every human person, is not the gift of any government.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2018
• The first — that experimenters can choose what measurements to perform — would seem inviolable.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024