(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".
Something
Definition:
(n.) Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
(n.) A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.
(n.) A person or thing importance.
(adv.) In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
(3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(4) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
(5) Mr Heine suggested: "It is saying something about CND, nuclear power, Chernobyl and Nagasaki."
(6) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(7) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(8) Michele Hanson 'The heat finally broke – I realised something had to change …' Stuart Heritage (right) with his brother in 2003.
(9) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(10) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(11) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(12) You might even arrive home with something tolerable for supper.
(13) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
(14) At least Depay departed having had a shot on target, something his manager will probably offer as proof United are improving.
(15) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
(16) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(17) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(18) Over the years it has become something of a Westminster ritual.
(19) Women in their 20s Christina Wallace , Director, Startup Institute of New York I do think the women's movement is stalled – especially since it's just not something my generation really thinks about.
(20) "We have accomplished something that has never happened before," the 68-year-old said.