How to Use invulnerable in a Sentence

invulnerable

adjective
  • The team seems invulnerable this season.
  • The candidate seems to be in an invulnerable position.
  • To play the super strong, invulnerable Harlem hero, Colter had to gain 30 pounds of brawn.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But over the past year or so, Mark Zuckerberg's empire has begun to look a little less invulnerable.
    Darren Loucaides, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
  • In other words, the ANC may have been invulnerable up to now — but that’s unlikely to last forever.
    Grant Buckles, Washington Post, 12 July 2017
  • And yes, Andrew Luck will be able to step up in the pocket, knowing there's a nigh-invulnerable force of nature protecting him.
    Joseph Spears, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2018
  • While the former congressman has been treated like the Big Dog in this thing, Issa’s not invulnerable.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The only thing being invulnerable does is waste your time.
    B.d. McClay, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Unlike a silo, which is fixed in the ground, an airplane flying over the United States was pretty much invulnerable.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Americans should not assume that the U.S. is invulnerable to state attacks on free speech.
    Iona Italia, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The more absurd—and invulnerable—the target of right-wing culture war hysteria, the better for all involved.
    Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Having a pop star grab them by the lapels and tell them to grow up might be the best way to elicit behavioral change among people who are prone to feeling invulnerable. or something better.
    Angela Watercutter, Wired, 16 Mar. 2020
  • But staying at Moda Center for the first two games of the series — as well as playing there in games five and seven, if necessary — doesn’t make the Trail Blazers invulnerable.
    Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • SolarWinds is both a shock to the system and a blunt reminder of this, so have no illusions that your software is invulnerable and can’t be compromised in a heartbeat.
    Adam Stern, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The fortress-like valley of T1, ringed by mountains, with only one point of entry, was nearly invulnerable to invasion.
    Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2017
  • Yet Warren is not invulnerable to some of the attacks that undermined Clinton.
    Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 31 May 2017
  • Archie, who has always been very difficult to kill and very strong, is suddenly a little bit invulnerable.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2022
  • They’re attacked by invulnerable aliens who look precisely like the invasive space dust from Dark Phoenix.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 June 2019
  • How is a society to ensure that new classes are not created—the sick and healthy, vulnerable and invulnerable, old and young, salaried and self-employed?
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 14 May 2020
  • Gene wasn't invulnerable to prosecution—he was indicted for insurance fraud in 1984—and he did get sued, which cost him.
    Jack McCallum, SI.com, 1 July 2019
  • A new video game commissioned by the U.S. Army as a recruiting tool portrays the nation's military in 2015 as an invulnerable high-tech machine.
    Marty Graham, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2006
  • Nor can the country be made invulnerable to missiles or terrorists.
    Richard Haass, Time, 25 Jan. 2018
  • But not invulnerable as the surging Chicago Blackhawks exposed with two road victories in St. Paul in as many weeks to stay within fire-breathing distance.
    Brian Murphy, Twin Cities, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The interception represents the first sign that Ukraine, with aid from Western allies, could stop a weapon presented by the Kremlin as invulnerable.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 9 May 2023
  • Burrow sees Venture use that drill to move underground, becoming invulnerable in the process.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Key among them is that no one is invulnerable to a disease that doesn't pick and choose whom to infect based on political affiliation or status.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Our patients see us as intact and invulnerable, and this illusion becomes part of our own consciousness.
    Susan T. Mahler, STAT, 18 July 2021
  • Ramjet 155 will be able to shoot farther than Russian and Chinese artillery, making American guns invulnerable to most types of counter-battery fire.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Not to suggest a basketball-centric Big East school like Butler is invulnerable.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Although none of these systems is invulnerable, the United States would struggle to eliminate all or even a substantial proportion of them without burning through enormous amounts of ammunition.
    Jonathan Caverley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024

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