How to Use ironclad in a Sentence

ironclad

adjective

• He has an ironclad alibi.
• The company has an ironclad policy against revealing secrets to competitors.
• Little of this is ironclad, but weigh it against the harms, which are … wait … there are none!
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• Of course, the notion of truth seems to have gone from ironclad to fluid in some people’s minds.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 13 Jan. 2020
• Fellow campers had an ironclad rule that guns were not allowed in the forest, a friend at the camp said.
  — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
• The logic behind Tár’s collapse, in the end, is ironclad.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2022
• In other words, the Big Ten can be nimble because there is no ironclad plan with this stuff.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• But that is a convention, rather than an ironclad rule.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• But in a recent job posting for the position, the standards are less ironclad.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2021
• The habitable zone, even by any other name, was never meant to be an ironclad rule.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 July 2023
• The Fitler Club had ironclad rules about using the pool, but elsewhere members sometimes were masked, and sometimes not.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
• The logic seems ironclad that our gains have to be the environment’s losses.
  — Andrew McAfee, Wired, 6 Oct. 2020
• There remains doubt, of course, about how ironclad the NBA’s return really is.
  — oregonlive, 17 June 2020
• The Chicago dog is iconic, an ironclad part of the region’s food identity.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2022
• And that gives Israel the rationale of self-defense, the most ironclad right of either a person or a nation.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2023
• Trump says it’s too early to make such an ironclad guarantee.
  — Will Weissert, The Denver Post, 19 July 2020
• This primer latches on to makeup with the same ironclad grip of your great-aunt Sally's hugs at the last family reunion.
  — Allure Editors, Allure, 13 Sep. 2022
• The logs that haven’t been released but are claimed to be ironclad by the AI maker attest to the absolute fact that the human had been given control by the AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• The offense had 193 yards, but the defense had three takeaways, two touchdowns and one ironclad defensive rookie of the year case for Chase Young.
  — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 15 Dec. 2020
• Supposedly, the boat was the slowest ironclad vessel in the Royal Navy.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022
• There’s also no ironclad rule that filmmakers must hew to the facts exactly in a film, even one based on real events.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 11 Dec. 2019
• Because spending more often buys a better wine, but it’s not an ironclad deal.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• And while the song is irresistible, the narrative surrounding it is even more ironclad.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 22 Jan. 2020
• How to avoid this in the future: Create an ironclad reminder system, like email or text alerts from your credit card issuer.
  — cleveland, 3 Oct. 2021
• Yet these would fall short of ironclad, legal guarantees.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
• The move, combined with mounting evidence that FTX’s books weren’t as ironclad as promised, sent the market into a panicked sell-off.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 23 Nov. 2022
• The F-Series' reign over its pickup competitors -- 44 years and counting -- was ironclad.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 6 June 2021
• Today’s scene seems designed to display her ironclad control over her brand and her image.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022
• But Florence Pugh, with an ironclad sense of self, always knows how to find individuality in her wardrobe.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2024
• And yet, as the campaign has moved through the first nominating contests, the race has not revealed Mr. Trump’s weaknesses, but instead the enduring nature of his ironclad grip on the Republican Party.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024