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Example sentences for "indelible"

Lexicographically close words:
indefinite; indefinitely; indefiniteness; indefinites; indehiscent; indelibly; indelicacy; indelicate; indem; indemnification
  1. Pranken had expected that he would work Sonnenkamp into a state of great excitement, and would give him an indelible impression of the hatred of the court towards Eric, and what really came?

  2. A feeling had been awakened within him, that he must bear an indelible stain for his whole lifetime.

  3. Diagonally across its face from the upper left-to the lower right-hand corner extended two parallel scorings in indelible ink.

  4. There were several peculiar things that I observed to-day, and I have here an indelible record of the scene of the crime.

  5. But he fixes on it an indelible stain, if he exercises any mechanical vocation.

  6. Never did they chance to enter one of those nauseous dwellings wherein hunger, grief, humiliation, all physical and moral ills are written in leprous mould on the walls, in indelible lines on the brows.

  7. The useless and indelible stain, the stupid fall of a woman who does not know how to walk and who is embarrassed in her rising by the ironical pity of the passers-by.

  8. In the life of a woman who has long remained young there comes a time when the years, which have passed over her head without leaving a wrinkle, trace their passage all at once brutally in indelible marks.

  9. It was whilst officiating in this latter capacity that his heart was stirred by its first serious passion--a passion which left an indelible impress upon all his future life.

  10. At any rate, it powerfully affected his mind, and left an indelible trace upon him almost down to his dying day.

  11. His erect figure and haughty carriage bear the indelible stamp of his illustrious forbears.

  12. But the reproach of cruelty, so repugnant even to her softer vices, has left an indelible stain on the memory of Theodora.

  13. The first indelible lesson of Ibas, bishop of Edessa, taught them to execrate the Egyptians, who, in the synod of Ephesus, had impiously confounded the two natures of Christ.

  14. The hand of nature has flattened the noses of the negroes, covered their heads with shaggy wool, and tinged their skin with inherent and indelible blackness.

  15. As a subject and a Christian, it was the duty of Gregory to acquiesce in the established government; but the joyful applause with which he salutes the fortune of the assassin, has sullied, with indelible disgrace, the character of the saint.

  16. The just progress of inquiry and punishment was stopped by seasonable gifts; but the murder of Hypatia has imprinted an indelible stain on the character and religion of Cyril of Alexandria.

  17. It matters not that the stain of the cigar-stump he tosses upon your dress, is as indelible as the stamp of loaferism upon the best-dressed man who smokes in the street.

  18. Daffy lifted the curls to look at that indelible proof of Mrs. Markham's affection on Rose's initiation day.

  19. Lobillo is a man between fifty and sixty, with a countenance on which every evil passion is marked in indelible characters.

  20. He tried to print an indelible picture in his mind of the layout of the building and was almost floored by the hive-like bustle of the place.

  21. This could easily have been done with an indelible pencil.

  22. Mr. Powell wet in a glass some handkerchiefs with water, and passed them over the curtain, they were passed out with a message written on them in indelible ink.

  23. But the King preferred the "indelible shame of disgraceful ingratitude," for he made no effort of any sort for Jeanne's ransom or rescue.

  24. He will always remember her, and her example, good or evil, will leave an indelible impression on his soul.

  25. In their eyes, a retreat is a shameful flight; and flight is indelible infamy.

  26. It was already leaving indelible traces in his mind, although he had seen nothing of it yet.

  27. The troubles of old age had made an indelible impression upon her.

  28. My healthy organism and ripe age helped me endure the many years' torments at a time when the young, tender lives fell sick quickly and were carried off one after another by death, leaving a feeling of atrocious pain and indelible bitterness.

  29. Indelible the memories of these talks, which often brought out illustrations of racial temperament.

  30. He paused on the threshold, and looked slowly round the room as if conscious then that the moment was to be one of the indelible memories of his life.

  31. It was the colour of a sun-burnt peach, and usually wore that air of gentle pride which the Moors seem to have left behind them in those lands through which they passed, to the people upon whom they have impressed an indelible mark.

  32. It is an indelible disgrace to Ferdinand that, in these compositions, he did not keep faith with those whose money he took.

  33. These appear to be similar to the carcel de familiares and, in all of them, confinement was held not to inflict the indelible stain of the secret prison.

  34. It was thoroughly understood that the mere fact of imprisonment inflicted indelible infamy and all the authorities urge the utmost caution in the exercise of this tremendous power.

  35. Even when he had presented his project to the sovereigns of Spain, and they had accepted it, and still more when the ships were engaged, and the crews mustered, he must go forward, or submit to indelible disgrace.

  36. He lived in friendship with that great poet, who has raised indelible monuments to his memory.

  37. He drew his observations chiefly from those he conversed with, and has seldom given any additional heightening, or indelible marks to his characters; which was the peculiar excellence of Shakespear, Johnson, and Congreve.

  38. My picture of Cannes is as indelible as the prince's picture of Tarascon.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indelible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.