IRREVOCABLE in a Sentence

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They had reached that irrevocable and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and all joy.

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 Meanings and Examples of IRREVOCABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
irrevocable
 a.  unalterable; irreversible; impossible to retract or revoke
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  They had reached that irrevocable and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and all joy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
2  He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
3  Their vows were sacred and irrevocable.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
4  A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I
5  The moment in which the first movement was made is irrevocable, and at that moment I could make only one movement, and whatever movement I made would be the only one.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
6  We stood with bitter hearts on either side of the mangled body, overwhelmed by this sudden and irrevocable disaster which had brought all our long and weary labours to so piteous an end.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
7  It is an irrevocable vow that I want to take.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
8  Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  That although it was little else than a matter of form, I presumed I should have an opportunity of trying how I liked it, before I bound myself to it irrevocably.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
10  The saying of Darya Alexandrovna at Moscow, that in deciding on a divorce he was thinking of himself, and not considering that by this he would be ruining her irrevocably, had sunk into his heart.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
11  However, it is always as well to have a look at him before irrevocably committing yourself into his hands.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
12  It made him irrevocably a family man; it killed the last lingering impulse that he might have had to go out in the evenings and sit and talk with the men in the saloons.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  Katerina Sergyevna,' he said with a shaking voice, and clasping his hands tightly together, 'I love you for ever and irrevocably, and I love no one but you.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  For if I examine an action committed a second ago I must still recognize it as not being free, for it is irrevocably linked to the moment at which it was committed.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
15  She felt that a powerful and implacable hand seized her by the hair, and dragged her away as irrevocably as fatality drags humanity.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
Example Sentence:
1  As Sue dropped the "Dear John" letter into the mailbox, she suddenly wanted to take it back, but she could not: her action was irrevocable.
2  He said the decision was irrevocable.