How to Use the inevitable in a Sentence

the inevitable

noun
Definition of the inevitablenext
  • But having a plan on how to deal with the inevitable is smart.
    — Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • And of course there are people who would like to postpone the inevitable.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
  • That doesn’t mean they can’t get started on the inevitable journey.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • As for the inevitable outrage of the purists, no more than 4000 laid their money on the table each year over that last decade.
    — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Dass read through the order, desperate to stop the inevitable.
    — Shoshana Walter, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • Frese loved watching stars evolve through the inevitable peaks and valleys of a four-year career.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023
  • That means there is a sense of destruction and decay—the inevitable effects of the passing of time.
    — Vogue, 15 Apr. 2024
  • With the hope for a future free of tyranny at risk, will Katherine submit to the inevitable for the sake of King and country?
    — Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
  • His new goal is to delay the inevitable demise of his 2010 Volkswagen Golf.
    — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Carter has grasped a whisper of control over his own death by ceding control: to God, to fate, to the inevitable.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The Cleveland fans who in the preseason shop for paper bags to put over their heads, knowing the inevitable.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
  • There's no better way to eradicate the inevitable mess than with a sleek and lightweight dust-buster.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2023
  • What follows is the inevitable mad dash to the nearest store where you’re confronted with a wall of bottles.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 5 Dec. 2023
  • There will be some schools that make big runs - while others will fall victim to the inevitable upsets that cause chaos each year.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • So, there was no way to avoid the inevitable and little blame directed at anyone.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Ignore the inevitable grumbling from players and long-term fans (a.k.a.
    — Paul Newberry, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Every Day Short $78 at publicrec.com Looking for a pair of shorts that can take you from the commute to the office to the airport to the bar and then to the inevitable summer vacay?
    — Christian Gollayan, menshealth.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Some hoped to flip their loan and pay it back, while others chose to foolishly spend the funds, ignoring the inevitable fraud charge.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
  • This removes air pockets and slows the inevitable compaction.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • This summer the inevitable happened and he was relieved of the captaincy.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • As the weather warms and the days turn into weeks, your former shining star of a hanging plant starts the inevitable march backward.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Just as hard to digest is the inevitable presence of Palestinian civilians in the combat area.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • And about how taxing this next week will be as the inevitable narrative mounts about how much of an issue this running game is for BYU.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In a scene taking place in the aftermath of the Civil War, a doctor comments on the inevitable collapse of the South’s economy.
    — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
  • The scale of the Hamas incursion and the inevitable magnitude of the Israeli response will put it back on the front burner for the foreseeable future.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • But given the inevitable backlash, why does Musk want to do away with full account blocking, anyway?
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 Aug. 2023
  • There are always the inevitable bombs, and 2023 will be remembered as the year superheroes lost their Midas touch at the box office.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Moments after big plays, users on X, for example, will rip videos of the moment and share them to their own channels to capture the inevitable views.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But given how well the survival story is known, there’s minimal suspense in the buildup to the inevitable moment when the first pieces of flesh are cut from corpses and consumed.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But learning to embrace and prepare for failure makes the inevitable a little less stressful.
    — Kelly Glass, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023

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