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Example sentences for "inevitable"

Lexicographically close words:
inessential; inest; inestimable; inestimably; inevitability; inevitableness; inevitably; inexact; inexactitude; inexactness
  1. To the natural loneliness of the country burial-place and to its inevitable sadness, is now too frequently added the gloomy and depressing evidence of human neglect.

  2. Then he would lie awake and imagine the inevitable climax.

  3. It cut his heart to see her suffering, but he thanked Heaven that the inevitable knowledge was coming, and prayed it might be the first step toward peace.

  4. The nation will undoubtedly avoid great loss and detriment, which would be the inevitable consequence of the total cessation of the trade with Bengal and the ships returning without cargoes.

  5. She overlooked the ill-fitting coat, the dragged cravat, the inevitable handkerchief.

  6. I am afraid he keeps his pledge of health, and resignation to the Inevitable better than you do yours to him.

  7. The teaching of the church condemned the vices that war against thrift; and the new life that filled the convert had its inevitable effect in quickening insight and energy.

  8. The aim of the Sceptic is ataraxia [freedom from mental perturbation or excitement] in matters which depend on opinion, and in things which are inevitable restraint of the feelings (metriopatheian).

  9. The numbers of the church swelled, and a theory began to spread, which Cyprian took up later on, and which was almost inevitable on his principles, that the church was an ark, with beasts clean and beasts unclean within it.

  10. The impulse to Philosophy is an inevitable one, native to the human mind, and he shows that it is to the Divine Reason working in all things, to Providence, that we must attribute it.

  11. Yet he is not essentially a man of letters or a poet; he is too indolent; his style is not inevitable or compulsive.

  12. It had been a trying day for poor Loyalheart and the inevitable reaction had set in.

  13. With summer at high tide in each heart, it was, as Hippy had remarked, not quite pleasant to be reminded even tunefully that life holds the inevitable autumn.

  14. The business of life is multiplied by the extent of commerce and dominion, and the residence of the parties in the distant provinces of an empire is productive of doubt, delay, and inevitable appeals from the local to the supreme magistrate.

  15. As he was followed to the port by the kind offices of his friends, Leontius observed, with a sigh, that he was a victim adorned for sacrifice, and that inevitable death would pursue his footsteps.

  16. The inevitable cheese was on hand, strongly barricaded in a crystal dish; and when I saw the tins of guava jelly and the bunch of bananas hanging from a stanchion, I had that dinner all mapped out.

  17. There are Englishmen with the inevitable walking-sticks.

  18. On his replying that the current was very light, I put the inevitable American query, How did the company manage to get a light current on one street, and at the same time to keep up the current in other parts of the city?

  19. Their prices had suffered the rise which is an inevitable result of American occupation, and were quite beyond our means.

  20. The periodical coming of the Clansman symbolised for her, to a certain extent, the inevitable march of time and fate.

  21. But, alas, what good to meet the inevitable with wailing?

  22. To our mind the conclusion is inevitable that Henry Francis, in 1785, was a member of the Negro Baptist church, at Silver Bluff, South Carolina.

  23. Behind him the bearers of the inevitable bribes: a drum, two blunderbusses, a bed, a piece of scarlet cloth, and a solitary dog.

  24. This being the case it is inevitable that the lines which come from the object to the point must form a pyramid.

  25. I say that as the moon has no light in itself and yet is luminous, it is inevitable but that its light is caused by some other body.

  26. It is inevitable that every shadow must have its centre in a line with the centre of the light.

  27. She had the inevitable défauts de ses qualités.

  28. Andras, whiter than the dying girl, seemed petrified by the approach of the inevitable grief.

  29. Having followed the Missouri so far, Deerfoot said that a crossing place must be found before the morrow, for it was inevitable that the farther they went down stream the larger it would become, because of its numerous tributaries.

  30. The inevitable delays followed, and the Spanish commandant of the province, not having received official notice of the transfer, would not allow the expedition to pass through the territory.

  31. These people must be acquainted with the readiest means of travel, and wherever they walked or rode they left inevitable signs to guide others.

  32. It is the inevitable in love as in death.

  33. The inevitable requital of offences against the laws of social order had risen up against her in my person.

  34. Seeing this, the lawyer, with an inevitable boyish sense of coup, hastily pulled a wallet from the pocket of his coat lying on a log.

  35. The thing brought laughter and the inevitable double entente of small-town comprehension.

  36. It was an inevitable wall of a girl's fresh vibrant personality.

  37. The inevitable psychological reaction had set in.

  38. It was as inevitable now as an antiphonal chorus.

  39. His life bore all the scars inevitable to such an instinct.

  40. As the inevitable growth of hostility progressed, violent direct action developed; e.

  41. Which we are doing, because of the inevitable development of Commerce and Manufacture, and the concomitant development of strong government.

  42. None of them, except the Industrial Workers, has recognized that there is a social war, inevitable so long as present legal-social conditions endure.

  43. As an inevitable result, a number of well marked creases made their appearance in the region of his watch-chain, and these I naturally included in my drawing.

  44. A first glance at this fellow would call up the reflection, “Here is the result of bad education, and bad example, induced perhaps by natural misfortunes, but the inevitable growth of filth and wretchedness in a large city.

  45. Bacon and sausages, with their inevitable accompaniment, sourkraut, is a favourite dish; but not so unvaryingly so as some choose to imagine.

  46. This flush did not suggest youth, but rather ripeness, the tone that comes with the lines made in the face by gentle acceptance of the inevitable in life.

  47. But it was all so different: the luxurious house, the carriage at call, the box at the opera, the social duties inevitable with her own acquaintances and the friends of her husband.

  48. In vain the orchestra, the inevitable accompaniment of life, warns and pleads and admonishes; calm has gone, and gayety has gone; there is no sweetness now but in the wildness of surrender and of sacrifice.

  49. The inevitable refusal followed, leading to invasion of the Zulu territory, with disastrous result.

  50. In it appears the reason for Lord Ripon's unwilling acceptance of Abdurrahman, whom he called "the most Russian of the candidates" for the Afghan throne, but also the inevitable choice.

  51. This was, of course, the inevitable result of our habit of very free and continual conversation.

  52. In lands where white men could rear their children it seemed to him inevitable that the Anglo-Saxon race should replace the coloured peoples as, to take his own illustration, the English fly was superseding all other flies in New Zealand.

  53. In 1878, while in Opposition, he had publicly advocated a policy of annexation in Egypt, and it was inevitable that critics should fasten upon him a special responsibility for the course pursued.


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