Example Sentences

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It also made wealth acquisition, an unvanquishable ambition in Shteyngart as a child, much less desirable.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2018

“Rise, like lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number! / Shake your chains to earth like dew / Which in sleep had fallen on you: / ye are many—they are few!”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 8, 2017

He could not help seeing himself as the successor to these ancient heroes of unvanquishable spirit.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2010

After the "Peterloo massacre" of working people in Manchester, Shelley wrote his Mask of Anarchy, a revolutionary poem of memorable drive: Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number .

From Time Magazine Archive

Rise, like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fall'n on you.

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington