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How to use inevitability in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Inevitability means the condition of being inevitable. Example: “Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.”

Examples of inevitability by meaning

nounThe condition of being inevitable.

  • Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358
  • It lives in history, not in technological inevitability.2019 January 20, John Naughton, quoting Shoshana Zuboff, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in...

More sentences with inevitability

  • Right from the start, The Irishman foregrounds the looming inevitability of death.2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club…. From the entry foreground
  • The norm is submission to the supposed iron laws of technological inevitability that brook no impediment.2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 13, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. From the entry brook
  • With every burst of news from Europe the inevitability of war became more certain.1959, Roger Burlingame, I Have Known Many Worlds, page 216. From the entry point of no return
  • He found something grisly in the inevitability of the pattern of each affair.1953, Ian Fleming, “The Hastening Saloon”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 157. From the entry disentanglement
  • This virtuous circle, however, must not be mistaken for inevitability.1990, Philip G. Cerny, “The Modern State at the Crossroads: Structuring the Field of Political Action”, in The Changing Architecture of…. From the entry virtuous circle
  • But the will to live, the will to achieve, was still strong, and with devastating suddenness it rebelled against the inevitability of the boning.2018, Arthur W. Upfield, The Bone is Pointed, →ISBN. From the entry boning
  • The film hurtles toward tragic inevitability like Vanishing Point, the classic carsploitation film that Death Proof revises with the triumph of the collective.2014, Claire Henry, Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 164–165. From the entry carsploitation
  • Without her, the dead Iraqi child on al-Jazeera would be just one of many, a signpost pointing toward the twin nihilisms of inevitability and ignorance.2003 April 13, Lorraine Adams, “Regarding the Pain of Others: By Susan Sontag: Farrar Straus Giroux. 131 pp. $20 [book review]”, in The…. From the entry nihilism
  • Any groupist or selfish aggression or competitiveness and so on humans naturally tend to feel is only a tendency or a latent potential, not an inevitability.2016, Kym Farrand, Morally and Otherwise Right Lives, Education and Upbringing, Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, →ISBN…. From the entry overrulable
  • Is there any justification (other than the inevitability of some errors) for billion-dollar misacquisitions, such as Exxon's purchase of Reliance Electric or Sohio's purchase of Kennecott?1990, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Leveraged Buyouts, page 105. From the entry misacquisition
  • Hobson argued against the inevitability of imperialism by stating that a better distribution of income in the proto-imperialist countries would have absorbed their “surplus” commodities and capital.1977, Ralph M. Faris, edited by Ralph M. Faris, Crisis and Consciousness, Amsterdam: B.R. Grüner Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 18. From the entry proto-imperialist
  • We should seek to convert the American from the search for cosmetic "youthemisms" for growing old such as "Golden Agers" to acceptance of old age's vicissitudes, inevitability, and pleasures.1960, Ruth Margaret White, Library Service to an Aging Population: An Institute. From the entry youthemism
  • Coronavirus isn't likely to give us coronababies – but a pandemic isn't the reason that having children has shifted from an inevitability to a choice, and now, a moral question.2020 July 25, Sian Cain, “Why a generation is choosing to be child-free”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News…. From the entry coronababy
  • Three minutes later, Luka Modric scampered down the right, clipped a cross to the near post and Ronaldo’s clipped finish gave the remainder of the match an air of inevitability.2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juve”, in The Guardian (London). From the entry scamper
  • All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me—maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.2013, Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett, A House in the Sky, page 89. From the entry unspool

Meaning of inevitability

  1. noun The condition of being inevitable.
  2. noun An inevitable condition or outcome.

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Questions about inevitability in a sentence

How do you use inevitability in a sentence?
Inevitability is used as a noun. For example: “Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.”
What is a short sentence with inevitability?
“It lives in history, not in technological inevitability.”
What does inevitability mean?
Inevitability means the condition of being inevitable.

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