(a.) Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Deng is a 21st-century Becky Sharp, we should recall that for all her cynicism, Thackeray's heroine also possessed an indomitable spirit.
(2) He speaks admiringly of the hot streak and indomitable desire that is shared by Suárez and Sánchez.
(3) The ideal Isolde is flame-haired, fiery, indomitable yet vulnerable, stern yet tender, and a standout dramatic soprano.
(4) The state government of Haryana said it would honour the girls’ “indomitable courage” .
(5) Just as an unbeaten run stretching back to Boxing Day could forge the same sort of indomitable team spirit that Leicester’s remarkable escape from relegation last season instilled in the King Power dressing room before Claudio Ranieri even arrived.
(6) Dean Kiely [a former Charlton goalkeeper] was always an inspiration to me because he didn’t get to the Premier League until he was 29.” Elliot’s mission is to imbue his team-mates with similarly indomitable spirit.
(7) My students understand the new media reality that has scared the once-indomitable Murdoch.
(8) That's an important crack in the NRA's seemingly indomitable public stance, and a sign that even this formidable lobby group does not stand above democratic accountability.
(9) Released 25 April Rio 2 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Well, it's hardly set on location, but if anything's going to get you buzzing for a trip to Brazil, it's this indomitable trio of CGI parrots.
(10) Fuchs bristles at that suggestion and makes an interesting analogy with a French comic book series and the indomitable Gauls fending off Roman occupation to explain Leicester’s mindset.
(11) The poorer classes seem to be getting some kind of vicarious pleasure from thinking: ‘I’m facing difficulties by standing in a queue, but the rich people who acquired wealth by dubious means, all their black money is gone.’” Whether these same people feel the pain was worth it, once money starts flowing again, will decide the fate of India’s seemingly indomitable prime minister.
(12) This, and other experiences at that time, made me even more determined to continue to show practical solidarity with the Eritreans who were demonstrating the indomitable spirit, which had, for years, enabled them to fight poverty, famine, and armed Ethiopian aggression.
(13) Now, I am in my 65th year with a teenage daughter still at home, and a mother in her 90th year who has a fragile independence boosted by an indomitable spirit, living 70 miles away.
(14) This is not the first time that financial concerns have affected the Indomitable Lions’s preparations for a World Cup.
(15) But the usually indomitable businessman admits he occasionally feels overwhelmed.
(16) But it would be surprising, when they are identified, if the great writer was not to be reburied in a place of honour so that admirers of the indomitable Knight of the Sad Countenance could pay their respects.
(17) Senator Charles Schumer called the crash “a massive and heartbreaking loss for this community.” “It deeply saddens me that Rochester has now lost two of its most indomitable, industrious visionaries,” Schumer said.
(18) Shawcross, for so long a formidable centre‑back who personified Stoke’s refusal to bow to supposed superiors, has not been his indomitable self since being afflicted by back trouble last year.
(19) In the Wimbledon final, Murray had taken an early advantage and then been hauled back, but here he was indomitable, matching everything Federer could throw at him and saving six break points.
(20) But while she might seem indomitable, Guillem knows perfectly well that her body will eventually let her down, and she has enough self-awareness to predict that she will suffer miserably when it does.
Invincible
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study released in August by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund came to the rather interesting conclusion that if the so-called invincibles shun the new law, it will be because the plans cost more than they think they can afford and not because they feel that they are above needing healthcare coverage.
(2) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(3) She argued that in fracturing the myth of American invincibility, the attacks also indirectly prompted a resurgence in patriarchal ideals, and a return to old-fashioned perceptions of gender.
(4) In fact, the government itself had become bedazzled by the seemingly invincible rise in stock prices.
(5) The Last Stand to Reason takes place on a train called the Stanton Bullet, with a teenage boy government-engineered to be invincible, a criminal mastermind lost inside his own disguises, and an unidentified "small thing" forever threatened with defenestration.
(6) For it gives the impression that we don't care about our freedom and that as long as we believe we are safe from terrorists, the government can do what the hell it likes with our information, even if that means building an invincible political power over trade unions, dissenting minorities, legitimate protesters, environmental activists, Her Majesty's opposition... you name it!
(7) The project’s co-director Max Wakefield says: “By helping people create tangible relationships with energy, we can enable an understanding of the need to reduce demand.” Despite the private tech industry’s seeming invincibility in many areas of consumer life, from copyright to privacy , there are cracks in the facade .
(8) I don’t like this term ‘strong female characters’ because that implies if a woman is gonna be in a comedy she’s gotta be tough and invincible and not vulnerable and to act more like a man.
(9) It was a symbolic blow for a Democratic party (PD) that had been riding high since its unprecedented victory in the European elections last month, and came as a reminder that, even with the 41% his party won in that poll, 39-year-old prime minister Matteo Renzi is far from invincible.
(10) In what role I don’t know, that is what he has to think about: what direction he wants to give to his next life.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arsène Wenger says Thierry Henry will certainly have a role at Arsenal Henry joined the Red Bulls in 2010 following a successful playing career in Europe, where he was an integral part of Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’ title-winning side of 2003-04, and also went on to win the 2009 Champions League with Barcelona.
(11) While until recently the greycoats looked invincible everywhere, in around 20 years the frontier has shifted 100km to the east .
(13) Life is so precious and we all believe we're invincible, but I know what's happening to my body.
(14) One theory aired in Russian media in recent days is that Nemtsov’s murder has led to a standoff between two powerful groups in the Russian elite: Kadyrov and his clan, who have always had Putin’s personal backing, and top security officials who have been genuinely investigating the murder and are determined to test Kadyrov’s apparent invincibility.
(15) But that does not render it invincible.” “As an initial matter, we do not give superduper protection to decisions that do not actually interpret a statute.” “The court calls this a ‘superpowered form of stare decisis ’ that renders statutory interpretation decisions nearly impervious to challenge,” he wrote in the dissent.
(16) A collection of individuals who couldn’t win a football match for love nor money a year ago have turned into an invincible force.
(17) We are spreading your words to the four corners of the earth, to remind the enemies of free speech that an invisible and invincible army is on its way, using words to tear down every one of the barriers keeping mankind from progress.
(18) With his team stripped of their invincibles label Mourinho was reduced to muttering about a Tyneside time-wasting conspiracy but no one should take any notice.
(19) Ethnopharmacologic inquiry is most invincibly pursued by addressing "medicinals" across the divers contexts through which populations gain exposure to the material of their pharmacopoeia.
(20) This - together with other discoveries, such as the fact that the invincible German war economy had been thoroughly badly run, with minimal use of female labour, and more than a million domestic servants in the country as late as September 1944 - induced in Galbraith a permanent scepticism about what he later came to term "the conventional wisdom".