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Example sentences for "irrepressible"

Lexicographically close words:
irremovable; irreparable; irreparably; irrepealable; irreplaceable; irrepressibly; irreproachable; irreproachably; irresistable; irresistibility
  1. She tried to throw a veil over the change which she knew her brother must observe in her, but the effort was ineffectual; and when alone with him, with a burst of irrepressible grief she gave vent to her apprehensions and sorrow.

  2. We have here the irrepressible conflict between the artificial and the natural.

  3. He clearly understood that the Irrepressible Conflict was a Conflict of systems, not a merely sectional and partisan quarrel.

  4. Thence arose an irrepressible conflict of economic forces and moral ideas whose doubtful adjustment was scarcely worth what it cost the two sections in treasure and blood.

  5. Energy, the irrepressible strength of the spirit upheld by a divine light of indestructible youth, shines out from the canvas.

  6. Think of my dismay at seeing one of the irrepressible Paris bores I had fled from!

  7. I have actually seen the irrepressible smile vanish from the face of Mr. John Morley.

  8. Next to that irrepressible orator is Mr. Lucy, "Toby, M.

  9. Then follows later a specimen of his irrepressible good humour: 22 Nov.

  10. That is the work of the irrepressible practical joker.

  11. A question was asked about the obstructive methods of the irrepressible Sir George, who on this particular afternoon was supported in his boredom by two other bores, the Member for Sunderland and Mr. Conybeare.

  12. Perhaps the publication of this "Post Office Jumble" card was also the cause of the puzzled postmen taking the trouble to decipher and deliver the far more amusing artistic jokes of that irrepressible joker, Mr. Linley Sambourne.

  13. By this means, so foreign to the Irish character, he held that excitable, rebellious, irrepressible crew in thrall.

  14. The Councillor hoped and expected that this irrepressible suitor would now deliver him from his presence; but he was soon undeceived.

  15. Louise looked at him wonderingly for an instant, and then gave way to a frank, irrepressible laugh, which lent her delicate but rather set little face all the color he had missed.

  16. This is the feature of the irrepressible conflict with which the Northern people are not familiar.

  17. I answer in a word: His sense of duty to his country; his belief that "the inevitable" is right; and his innate and irrepressible humor.

  18. She turned and kissed her cousin, and deposited an irrepressible tear on his moustache.

  19. He felt a movement of irrepressible elation, and he barely stifled a cry of joy.

  20. He ran on swiftly for a few paces,--then coming more closely in view of the misty Shape he pursued, he checked himself abruptly and stood still, his heart sinking with a bitter and irrepressible sense of disappointment.

  21. A murmur of irrepressible laughter and derision ran through the listening crowd.

  22. Here an irrepressible moan of anguish broke through his heroic effort at equanimity;--"It is NOT a phenomenon!

  23. His gaze dwelt upon her in unspeakable wondering adoration, mingled with a sense of irrepressible sorrow and heaviness of heart, .

  24. On the other hand, this irrepressible Townshend had a far better ally in George III.

  25. No sooner had he seen Henry, than the irrepressible conviction rose up within him, that he was the man whom the Great Spirit had indicated, and that the dream was now fulfilled.

  26. Some stood aghast and bewildered at the sudden and fatal blow; others were sunk in the apathy of despair; others were weeping and moaning with irrepressible anguish.

  27. The French call it Muguet, or "little musk.

  28. The Goldfinch often lines her nest with the soft pappus of the Coltsfoot.

  29. Again profound silence reigned around, broken only now and then by an irrepressible sob from Eve.

  30. I started up in irrepressible wrath: "Cowardly rascal!

  31. In this warm valley, carpeted in the irrepressible couch-grass, there was no lack of fodder that season, and even the lanes and byways would have served as fattening paddocks.

  32. Then welcome be it, if indeed it be The Irrepressible Conflict!

  33. The main features of Buchanan's administration to hasten the "irrepressible conflict" were the well-weighed words of the Chief Justice and the wild invasion of a border ruffian.

  34. Perhaps it was because these men had postponed the conflict then that it reappeared now with irrepressible power.

  35. Calhoun were waging their "irrepressible conflict," the county of Wilkes in the State of Georgia was nursing discordant factions.

  36. He's sorry because you forgot to mention Dora," said the irrepressible Tom.

  37. Mad with an anxiety I did not stop to define, I rushed toward this group now swaying from side to side in irrepressible excitement, when suddenly everything swam before me and I fell in a swoon to the floor.

  38. And Sir Henry Tempest burst into an irrepressible laugh as he sat down.

  39. Jem saw with self-upbraiding pain how Mr. Carson winced at these last words, but at each irrepressible and involuntary evidence of feeling, the hearts of the two men warmed towards him.

  40. I think I ought to go," said Elizabeth, with an irrepressible little sob.

  41. Fight the matter out by the help of the lawyers," said Dino, with an irrepressible flash of his dark eyes.

  42. Some one had drawn near, and was looking pityingly, wonderingly, down upon the slight, boyish form that still shook and quivered with irrepressible emotion.

  43. His voice died away in irrepressible sobs which shook him from head to foot.

  44. Then a sudden, overpowering peal of laughter from the medium--hearty, rippling, irrepressible and irresistible.

  45. He looked, also, at Stafnitz, who bit his mustache, without quite hiding an intentional but apparently irrepressible smile.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irrepressible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; beaming; blithe; blithesome; bright; cheerful; cheery; contumacious; defiant; effervescent; elated; enthusiastic; exalted; exhilarated; flushed; fractious; genial; glad; gladsome; glowing; happy; high; hopeful; immoderate; incontinent; incorrigible; indomitable; inextinguishable; insuppressible; intemperate; intractable; irrepressible; irresistible; laughing; lax; licentious; loose; obstreperous; optimistic; pleasant; radiant; rampant; recalcitrant; refractory; resistant; restive; riotous; rosy; sanguine; shrewish; smiling; sparkling; sunny; unbridled; unchecked; unconstrained; uncontrollable; uncontrolled; uncurbed; unforced; ungovernable; ungoverned; uninhibited; unmanageable; unmeasured; unmuzzled; unquenchable; unreserved; unrestrained; unruly; untamable; wanton; wild; winsome