How to Use redoubtable in a Sentence

redoubtable

adjective

• There is a new biography of the redoubtable Winston Churchill.
• Even the last episodes about the redoubtable Hopper and Parsons link fame to its eclipse.
  — The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• With a waddle to his wit, Williams is a drag-out hit as the redoubtable Mrs. Doubtfire.
  — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Nov. 2019
• No team has used more pitchers this season than the redoubtable Rays.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• The redoubtable Tscorn flexed his keyboard to file a report that also took in Gareth Pugh’s first Paris show.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 11 June 2021
• This project sounds like a shoddy knock-off, despite the presence of the redoubtable Edie Falco.
  — Robert Bianco, USA TODAY, 19 May 2017
• One was Tim Moore, the redoubtable Republican speaker of the state House.
  — David Perlmutt, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• That would excite me enough even if the movie didn’t boast two leads as redoubtable as Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• Our second father/son-in-law street-name duo was the redoubtable Otis/Chandler pairing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• Grandma Ruby, the artist’s eponym, was a redoubtable guardian who kept her granddaughter safe by keeping her busy.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2021
• But his redoubtable memory of every New York sports happening since the '50s allowed him to pull his shtick off.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Also present is the Earl’s redoubtable mother (Maggie Smith), who dispenses bons mots like sour lemon drops.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2019
• The redoubtable Dave Neiwert has finally finished his magnum opus about the alt-right and the rise of modern neo-fascism.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Dec. 2017
• The dilemmas of when and how to signal a plan to step away from formal office and confirm an heir could test Mr. Xi’s redoubtable political skills.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• During the three-hour tour, our guide, the redoubtable Terry Cotter, regaled us with tales of African safaris and animal anecdotes.
  — Karen D’souza, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• But the redoubtable Mary, intuiting the plotters’ goals, is determined to escape Holyrood Palace and their bloody grasp.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
• For different ecology, head south to the Western Ghats, a redoubtable mountain range hugging the southwest coast of the peninsula.
  — Payal Dhar, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
• Real Madrid could risk absorbing pressure, conceding chances, safe in the knowledge that Courtois is a redoubtable last line of defense.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2022
• The climax, boosted by redoubtable guest star Carol Burnett, was sorrowful and striking and wholly organic to the 60+ episodes that came before.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2022
• This likable and redoubtable Bruins team, players who poured their hearts into the season and sacrificed their bodies during it, deserved better than to go out with a clunker.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2019
• The founder of this magazine, the redoubtable William F. Buckley Jr., had an instantly recognizable trademark: hard words.
  — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
• The redoubtable reptilian mascot, which made its debut in 1999, was conceived by the Martin Agency to both reinforce Geico’s name and help the public figure out how to pronounce it.
  — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
• The usually redoubtable maker of Swiss Army knives suffers a rare and humiliating military defeat with the Sentinel, which is both hard to open and, thanks to a flimsy and tricky liner lock, hard to close.
  — Dylan Tweney, WIRED, 29 June 2009
• Within a somber court, flanked on one side by the offices of Paris’s most redoubtable police investigators and on the other by courts of justice, stands an oasis of exquisite beauty, a little church known as the Sainte Chapelle.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• The wave of another magic wand passes over Prospero’s enchanted isle, courtesy of a real magician — the redoubtable Teller, of Penn and Teller renown.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• The enigma of instantaneous speed goes far back in the history of mathematics and philosophy, to around 450 B.C. with Zeno and his redoubtable paradoxes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2019
• Its twinkling eye is instead trained on three redoubtable forces: dreams, family and British eccentricity.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 2 June 2022
• Leading the pretour was Frances Brook, a redoubtable Englishwoman with an authoritative manner and a flowery hat.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2017
• Yet again, McDormand has etched a redoubtable woman into the cinematic landscape.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
• In this flinty arts hub, where modesty is prized no less than achievement, an era is about to end, as Osmo Vänskä, the Minnesota Orchestra’s redoubtable 69-year-old music director, prepares to leave his post after 19 seasons.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 31 May 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024