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Example sentences for "inflexible"

Lexicographically close words:
inflectional; inflections; inflective; inflexed; inflexibility; inflexibly; inflexion; inflexional; inflexions; inflict
  1. He was but pursuing the course he had laid out, following his necessary, inflexible determination.

  2. And that departure from inflexible selfishness seemed strangely to have weakened her will.

  3. Mrs. Clarke's voice had sounded full of inflexible knowledge when she had spoken these words, and she had looked at him with eyes that were full of knowledge.

  4. We'll leave that," she said, with inflexible composure.

  5. This, it will be admitted, is a quality rarely to be found in a soldier, and a soldier, too, of such an inflexible cast as the Duke.

  6. The systematic and inflexible course of cruelties exercised by the British armies on American prisoners during the three first years of the war were doubtless unexampled among civilized nations.

  7. But most of the events were so recent, so important and so well known, as to render them inflexible to the hand of fiction.

  8. Off with it, Sarpent--off with it," resumed the inflexible Deerslayer.

  9. Her pose, an infrequent one in the case of mummies, was that of the Venus of Medici, as if the embalmers had wished to save this beautiful body from the set attitude of death and to soften the inflexible rigidity of the cadaver.

  10. Third--How patiently does God, through inflexible and unerring law, work out such stupendous results.

  11. She was remarkable for vigor of intellect, strength of resolution, and inflexible firmness wherever principle was concerned.

  12. But the Catholic Church, while it unites its professors in the belief of the same inflexible creed, leaves them entirely free in all mere externals and national peculiarities.

  13. But for a moment only he hesitated, his inflexible sternness returning.

  14. No," replied Taras, with his own inflexible firmness.

  15. There was not one, not even the thundering, the inflexible Demosthenes, so terrible to tyrants, but was subjected to their sway.

  16. Its members are inflexible men, whose ability has been as frequently manifested as their patriotism.

  17. The humanity of the French general prevented the Roman demagogues from carrying into execution the latter part of the sentence; but he remained inflexible as to Consalvi's removal to Naples.

  18. But Mrs. Marchmont was inflexible upon this point.

  19. The great gaunt stone mansion would still stand, and the dull machinery of its interior would still go on: the same hours; the same customs; the same inflexible routine.

  20. The Fakir listened to him with an inflexible and immovable aspect, similar to that with which a wooden saint regards his eager supplicants.

  21. He was as haughty, inflexible and ambitious as Gregory VII.

  22. Having made this declaration (which is here given in his own words), he prepared to set out for Turkey, in hopes of being able to soften the inflexible temper of his benefactor, by the sacrifice he had made for him.

  23. Instead of this, Whitgift followed him through life with inflexible animosity.

  24. She stood in the attitude of one listening, for in her ears was a voice that she had never heard before, a deep inflexible voice that urged her to do--she knew not what.

  25. A day, Mr. Clifton, worthy of your remembrance and of your emulation; for it afforded some of the strongest proofs of inflexible courage of which man is at present capable.

  26. I must buckle down to some kind of study," she repeatedly said to herself, as if it helped her to a more inflexible resolution.

  27. The majority were without inflexible belief, without moral enthusiasm, without definite organisation, without any of those principles that inspire the heroism either of resistance or aggression.

  28. Thus, multitudes who recognise the fact that the celestial phenomena are subject to inflexible law, imagine that the dispensation of rain is in some sense the result of arbitrary interpositions, determined by the conduct of mankind.


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