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How to use irresistible in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Irresistible means impossible to resist. Example: “He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.”

More sentences with irresistible

  • He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.From the entry mad
  • Some carpet sharks find cloth an irresistible delicacy and chew holes in the fabric.2021, Kim Schilling, Ferrets For Dummies, page 78. From the entry carpet shark
  • These chubby fries are dusted with sugar and spice and are totally irresistible.2021 January 20, Diane Bair, Pamela Wright, “Food and love are a great match in Portland, Maine. But does it make sense to go in winter?”…. From the entry sugar and spice
  • The convenience of online shopping is "irresistible," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight.2019 July 1, “John Oliver dispels your happy, convenient illusions about shopping on Amazon”, in The Week, Johnsplaining. From the entry farm upstate
  • They’re irresistible!” She kept scrolling through sites for Maltipoos, Shih-poos and Yorkipoos.2017, Teresa Toten, Beware That Girl, Hot Key Books, Bonnier Zaffre Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry poo
  • Knowing what was coming, the soft-grain leather felt even more sensual and unbearably irresistible against her skin.2014, Karen Wiesner, Shards of Ashley, Book 5 of the Family Heirlooms Series, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry soft-grain
  • His tattoos covering his chest and abs made him irresistible while his V line added to it.2014, Shianne Nicole, Beauty and the Styles, →ISBN. From the entry V line
  • He was quite irresistible as a child and I tried not to favouritise him.2014, Ursula d’Abo, David Watkin, The Girl With The Widow's Peak: The Memoirs. From the entry favouritise
  • She was irresistible—a laughing, chattering live wire, never at a loss for a word.2007, Charlaine Harris, Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry live wire
  • Deen is an irresistible example of that extraordinary phenomenon of Southern womanhood, the steel magnolia.1998, John Berendt (introduction), The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook, Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page xv. From the entry steel magnolia
  • Her back arched, and in the moonglow she looked like a pagan offering, mysterious, delectable, irresistible.1994, Susan Wiggs, Circle in the Water, page 221. From the entry moonglow
  • The off-handed elegance and freedom of Dino Borgioli’s Duke make him seem utterly charming and irresistible.1990: Joel Flegler, Fanfare, volume 13, issues 5–6, page 368 (sub nomine sui). From the entry unlachrymose
  • Nostalgic landlubbers, and sealubbers, enamored of the bygone days of sail, find her quite irresistible.1960 May 8, David MacNeil Doren, “Hosteler’s Anchorage in Stockholm”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry sealubber
  • The Holy Spirit is leading men into the truth with pervasive, irresistible energy.1921 July 21, L.C. Barnes, “Antidotes for Romaphobia”, in The Watchman-Examiner: A National Baptist Paper, volume 9, number 29, page 919. From the entry Romaphobia
  • From an African American perspective, the "samurainess" of Afro may provide him with the irresistible odds needed to fight the world.2020 October 26, Michael Daliot-Bul, Nissim Otmazgin, The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries, BRILL…. From the entry samurainess
  • But something about Hillenburg's show proved irresistible to memery.2018 November 27, tmc...@gmail.com, “SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg's legacy lives on in countless internet memes”, in…. From the entry memery
  • The pairs of backward-diagonal traveling sissonnes (jumps from two legs to one) are another motif so accentuated as to become irresistible.2008 May 12, Alastair Macaulay, “City Ballet’s Itinerary: Robbins and Beyond”, in New York Times. From the entry sissonne
  • Visiting dudettes found the shy man of the land irresistible.2005, Lesley Poling-Kempes, Ghost Ranch, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry dudette
  • The chance to meet one's wombmate, possibly for the first time since the umbilical cords were cut, is irresistible.1999, Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do. From the entry wombmate
  • The neighborhood pizza shop is irresistible, and he wolves down two slices of pizza, one on top of the other.1996 February, David Rosenbaum, “Behind the Dressing Room Door”, in Inside Wrestling, Ambler, Pa.: London Publishing Co., →ISSN, page 12…. From the entry wolve down
  • Despite the long drive, the position was irresistible because the campus serves as a test site for advanced networking technologies.1995, John R. Bourne, The Influence of Technology on Engineering Education - Page 56. From the entry foreview
  • The herb, sun-dried tomato and cinnamon toasts are good, but the crunchy, parmesany and garlicky Caesar Crisp is irresistible.1991 July 10, “Just the Snack”, in New York Newsday, volume 51, number 310, page 57. From the entry parmesany
  • The herb, sun-dried tomato and the cinnamon toasts are good, but the crunchy, Parmesany and garlicky Caesar Crisp is irresistible.1991 July 10, Irene Sax, compiler, “What’s New in the Hamptons”, in Newsday, Hempstead, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59, column 2. From the entry parmesany
  • Gardyloo is a word logophiles find irresistible.1979, Saturday Review, page 13. From the entry gardyloo
  • Walt, stumbling helplessly backward under the irresistible push of Tiny’s weight, kept screeching, “Ya tubba lard, gimme my goddam quarter.”1970, (Unattributed), Easyriders Magazine, page 54. From the entry tubba lard
  • A small band of Indians had ridden onto this irresistible opportunity and had counted coup with the whites' own unguarded guns.1954, David Lavender, Bent’s Fort: A Historical Account of the Adobe Empire that Shaped the Destiny of the American Southwest, Garden…. From the entry count coup
  • With their past as layered as a slice of Esterházy torte, to researchers Brijuni are irresistible – if at times a bit rich.2024, Milica Prokić, Hrvoje Petrić, “Nature(s) of Power: Environment, Politics and Prestige on Brijuni Islands in the Twentieth Century”…. From the entry Esterházy torte
  • A silver floofed fox, Corge is an actor, producer, and activist known for his dashing hot looks, charming derpiness, and irresistible pantaloons.2021 March, Zoey Acoff, The Little Book of Big Corgi Butts: Outrageously Cute Activities to Celebrate the Greatest Booty on Earth, Abrams…. From the entry derpiness
  • It’s not cheap, mind, but the marriage of retro styling and modern rideability will be irresistible for old-school race romantics (condorcycles.com ).2015 September 20, Martin Love, “Condor Cycles ‘Paris Strada’: bike review”, in The Observer. From the entry rideability
  • The bigger Allflex or Nu-Zee type tags must have an irresistible earwaxy, scabby flavour to them when they fall out and dogs can’t resist them.2011, Peter Anderson, “Fainters”, in Peter Jerram, Peter Anderson, Cock and Bull Stories: Tales from Two Kiwi Country Vets, Auckland…. From the entry earwaxy
  • Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool.2005 May 14, Laura Barton, The Guardian. From the entry clownish
  • Even the most devoted husbands confessed that the adorable, irresistible, captivating loves of their lives at times drove them wall-climbingly, teeth-grindingly nuts.1996, Merry Bloch Jones, Robert Llewellyn Jones, “I Love Her, But…”, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry climbingly
  • He sleeps by day because to be awake in sunlight would be, for him, an irresistible temptation to botanise, zoologise, nephelologise, and do no work.1992, Andro Linklater, Compton Mackenzie: A Life, page 265. From the entry botanise
  • But such is the frailty of human reason and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld.1957, Emil Aarestrup, Christian Frederik Petersen, Morten Borup, Emil Aarestrups breve til Christian Petersen, Gyldendal, page 220. From the entry ænigma
  • The irate Ranger killed thirteen porcupines chewing away on his front porch, and still they came, the salt proving an irresistible lure.1929, Forest and Stream, page 58. From the entry porky
  • There are moments at which you can feel the irresistible temptation to embellish and invent, to infuse reality with Chabonesque touches of wistful Jewish magic realism, being resisted.2016 November 18, A[nthony] O[liver] Scott, “Story After Story”, in Sunday Book Review, published 20 November, page 1; published online as…. From the entry Chabonesque
  • But, perhaps because that final stage of human life following old age—-life's cessation—is irresistible, it is against the aging of our bodies that we make a last complaint.2015, Albrecht Classen, editor, Handbook of Medieval Culture, volume 2, De Gruyter. From the entry Wife of Bath
  • In trade, it is an almost infallible law that a hungry low-end market, an eager dumping grouund for the shoddiest work, is an irresistible market force.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 81. From the entry low-end
  • A silver or porcelain bowl on a side table, where guests can sift the scented flower fragments through their fingers, is an irresistible reminder of luxuries past.1978, House & Garden, House & Garden, Conde Nast Publications, page 88. From the entry ultradeluxe
  • And I’m hopeless with ladies, as you know, lacking both that easygoing contempt which they find irresistible and also lacking a real instinctive trust in them.1954 July 21, Robert Bolt, “[Barbara Bray letter to RB]”, in Adrian Turner, Robert Bolt: Scenes From Two Lives, London: Hutchinson…. From the entry piss in someone's chips

Meaning of irresistible

  1. adjective Impossible to resist.
  2. adjective Compellingly attractive.

Full definition of irresistible

Questions about irresistible in a sentence

How do you use irresistible in a sentence?
Irresistible is used as an adjective. For example: “He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.”
What is a short sentence with irresistible?
“Gardyloo is a word logophiles find irresistible.”
What does irresistible mean?
Irresistible means impossible to resist.

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