no-return
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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"And it's as if the ground opened up underneath my feet. Her silence spoke volumes. It marked a point of no-return."
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025
“I call on each Albanian to consider their future, the country’s future. We are in a no-return battle,” he said before joining the hundreds of protesters outside the building Monday.
From Washington Times • Dec. 18, 2023
“It did not look like the picture in the ad, and unfortunately I overlooked the no-return policy. So basically I threw away $40.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021
His work’s elegant eulogy to inevitable ruin and decay has been pushed over a no-return cliff.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2019
En-nugi is described as "lord of streams and canals," and "lord of the earth, lord of no-return."
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge
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