How to Use irreversible in a Sentence

irreversible

adjective

• The crisis has done irreversible harm to the countries' relations.
• He suffered an irreversible loss of vision.
• Your plant’s foliage would appear to have irreversible damage, but the plant should be fine.
  — oregonlive, 3 July 2021
• Keep in mind that Zelle transfers are instant and irreversible.
  — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
• As many resources acknowledge, voice changes are irreversible.
  — Rachel Lisner, Allure, 6 July 2021
• The beauty landscape has changed in an irreversible way, and a new generation of sustainably minded bio-tech brands are leading the way.
  — Ahmed Zambarakji, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2021
• For the government, which has committed itself to an irreversible schedule of reopening in full, the stakes are enormous.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 12 July 2021
• Is global plastic pollution nearing an irreversible tipping point?
  — Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
• In a number of key areas, greenhouse gas emissions have already caused irreversible damage, and the effects are being felt on the time scale of centuries to millenniums, the report found.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2021
• Current economic issues, the direction of job growth and the inevitable, irreversible decline in the US workforce, should take center stage.
  — Joel Shulman, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• That’s the threshold beyond which experts say the planet will experience catastrophic, irreversible damage.
  — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 14 July 2021
• But the lives lost are an irreversible price of this war.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
• For many of them, the cult exacted an irreversible toll.
  — Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
• They were exposed to a pathogen that goes by the name Logan Roy, and that disease is irreversible.
  — Vulture, 29 May 2023
• And what’s the cap on a comeback when so much of the public tide outside the core fanbase has seemed irreversible?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 June 2022
• At this point, the heat has done irreversible damage that can leave the victim disabled for years to come.
  — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
• Changes could happen to my body that would be irreversible.
  — ELLE, 8 Mar. 2022
• However, the ice ages that drove us out of the trees, condemning us to a life that isn’t ours, were irreversible.
  — Ann Goldstein, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• The good news is, not all damage caused by poor childhood habits is irreversible.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 2 Aug. 2023
• Many of the factors that lead to worsening floods in cities are irreversible.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2022
• His irreversible loss of hope plays as a counterpoint to Martha’s.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2024
• But so many things have happened that are irreversible.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
• And the report says many changes to the oceans and sea level are irreversible for centuries to millennia.
  — ABC News, 31 Oct. 2021
• Leonard responded a few moments later with a quick left jab to the jaw that seemed to mark an irreversible turning point in the fight.
  — Matthew Allan, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
• What happened next would launch the country onto an irreversible course to war.
  — David W. Blight Max-O-Matic, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• The key insight is that chromosome fusion and mixing is as irreversible as the mixing of milk in a cup of tea.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
• His antics and statements have done a good deal of irreversible damage.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
• If these grim realities are irreversible, though, Edzard van der Wyck, the co-founder of Sheep Inc, never got the memo.
  — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2022
• And Lebanon itself would move closer to the brink of absolute and irreversible collapse.
  — Asher Kaufman, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
• These countries believed that the United States was in irreversible decline at home and divided from its friends abroad.
  — Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024