What's the difference between indestructible and perdurable?

Indestructible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not destructible; incapable of decomposition or of being destroyed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tim Nice-But-Dim may seem annoyingly indestructible, but by expanding the horizons of others, we can undermine him.
  • (2) But we loved it.” The block was only a few years old when the brothers moved in and has proved as indestructible as Chaplin’s reputation.
  • (3) Pushed by the press and fired by Britain’s seemingly indestructible institutional desire to be loved by America, prime ministers feel the need to seize first friend status and hug it close.
  • (4) Alliances can wither or be destroyed, but partnerships of purpose are indestructible.
  • (5) They too lost their compass, went too far and believed themselves indestructible.
  • (6) Forty years ago, there were lots of old and oldish people in the movies but they didn’t pretend to be young and indestructible, because where’s the drama in that?
  • (7) The aggressive Humvee mindset spawned a less antisocial alternative: the SUV (sport utility vehicle), with its high-up military-style vantage point, from which to spot approaching danger, and with macho bumpers signalling solidity and indestructibility.
  • (8) We feel it highlights that family is an indestructible bond between people that is universal and it doesn’t matter how it is made or what it looks like.
  • (9) Joined previously successful combo and is still around, misunderstood, but seemingly indestructible.
  • (10) Technically the challenge, brilliantly met, must have been the handling of that enormous flock of free-range characters and the disposing of the maddening, mysterious, apparently indestructible Widmerpool.
  • (11) The authors analyse the results of the treatment of peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum by indestructible red laser radiation in 65 patients.
  • (12) It may not be the end of his political life -- given his seemingly indestructible appeal to sections of the Italian population.
  • (13) Crucially, he was seen as a born survivor and indestructible powerbroker, a rain-maker who could not be bypassed or sidelined.
  • (14) To Swansea fans he’s our rock, an indestructible superhero.
  • (15) Microplastics are near-indestructible in natural environments.
  • (16) The words should be indestructible but they are fleeting.
  • (17) The invention of CDs meant we all wanted to replace our record collections with wonderful new shiny, "indestructible" CDs and we were all happy to fork out £16 or £17 for each one; it also became de rigeur to have a library of videos prominently displayed in the corner of your living room.
  • (18) As a consequence of these facts, perfect metals for application in implants must have a short repassivation period and mechanically indestructible surface oxides.
  • (19) "What is interesting, on reflection, is how comfortable everyone was with the notion that banks were somehow indestructible," he said.
  • (20) They are not indestructible, and there are not as many of them as we think.

Perdurable


Definition:

  • (n.) Very durable; lasting; continuing long.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Part III synthesized the emic and etic accounts with explanations for the perdurance of 'wind illness' despite the advances of biomedicine and the recent fertility decline in Northern Thailand.
  • (2) In the change, professional growth in manifested; in the continuity, the perdurable essence of nursing.
  • (3) Perdurance of the fat+ gene product in mitotic recombination clones allows the formation of a few infertile eggs from fat homozygous germ-line cells.
  • (4) We introduce the term "perdurance" to designate the persistence of a cellular developmental fate for several cell generations after the loss of the genetic basis for that cellular development.
  • (5) Neurological examination and laboratory tests have always been normal but for a large perduring asymmetry at the Cortical Auditory Evoked Response.
  • (6) The other substances showed ovicidal and molluscicidal activity only at 100 and 1000 ppm concentrations, causing a significant cardiac frequency reduction in snails after 6 to 24 hours of exposure as well as perduring low cardiac rates until 24 hours afterwards.
  • (7) It is speculated that the observed reduction in Cli may have been independent of cirrhosis per se, owing to the perduring cytotoxic effect of CCl4 as evidenced by the higher than normal level of transaminases in female rats.
  • (8) It is also very useful to advise the family on the life organization at home in order to perdure, on the legal safeguards, on whether or not the patient should be institutionalized, and similar topics.
  • (9) We discuss gender-specific obstacles that Job overcomes in attaining wisdom by analyzing modern interpretations of the text, which underscore its perdurance in a post-modern age.