Example Sentences

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Still, you can’t pattern a movie after Citizen Kane unless your protagonist has an unhealable wound, so Mank seems to have made this one up.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2020

“Detective Trapp” has the semblance of a police procedural but is really a profile of a detective of high competence and uncommon dedication, walking through unimaginable darkness, and driven in part by unhealable personal wounds.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2019

Biggie Smalls didn’t alter the hip-hop landscape so much as crater it, leaving behind an unfillable void and an unhealable wound.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2014

There is scarcely an Afrikander family without an unhealable wound.

From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by Van Breda, P.

I imagine this is not uncommon among married people,—this unhealable break in their routine of association when one departs.

From The Plum Tree by Ashe, E. M.