irreclaimable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of irreclaimable
First recorded in 1600–10; ir- 2 + reclaimable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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America lost 56,480 men in Viet Nam, the last irreclaimable body count.
From Time Magazine Archive
He understood that once Cully had slept in freedom for a whole night he would be wild again and irreclaimable.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He sounds to me," remarked the courteous Montagu, "a confirmed and irreclaimable nincompoop.
From A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay
There is plenty of government land not taken up and which may never be occupied, that is, inaccessible mountain and irreclaimable desert.
From Our Italy by Charles Dudley Warner
He caught his breath with something like a sigh of regret for an irreclaimable past.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
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