Example Sentences

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But its directness and intimacy lend an indelibility that encyclopedic framing could never approximate.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2019

He also positions himself as an intellectual lodestar, doling out lectures on language and grammar that torment Jo in later life with their indelibility.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018

“Hotel Transylvania 3” may lack the indelibility of the medium’s best offerings for kids, but hopefully its clear theme of acceptance lingers long after the inoffensive odor of its fart jokes dissipates.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2018

The palpable longing Frankie has for wanting to be his true self in a world that may not understand him gives Dickinson’s performance indelibility and his career as an actor, promise.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2017

The whole scene would stand forth, photographed in fatal minuteness and indelibility upon face, hands, coat-sleeve, shirt-bosom.

From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian