Example Sentences

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They are “the unsplittable atom of American politics” and have “a union like no other.”

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2015

In that language, infinitives were an unsplittable single word: to split is dilaminare.

From Time • Aug. 1, 2014

During the 86th Congress, in 1959-60, Virginia's wily old Howard Worth Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee, had made up an unsplittable conservative bloc with the committee's four Republican members plus Mississippi's William Colmer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Similarly, the allegedly unsplittable verb will execute is not a verb at all but two verbs, the auxiliary verb will and the main verb execute.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The stove was of soapstone, square, with hinged top that, opening upward, gave room for the insertion of a "chunk"—a huge, unsplittable, knotty piece of maple, birch, or beech.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)