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US
/ˌɪnˈvəɫnɝəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /ɪnvˈʌlnəɹəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ɪnvˈʌlnəɹəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
immune to attack; impregnable
gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs
How To Use invulnerable In A Sentence
- A force that believes it is invulnerable might dismiss or underestimate an opponent's strength, will or commitment.
- But some accidents happen because of their egocentric tendency to think of themselves as invulnerable.
- The fleet rendered Britain invulnerable to direct attack, while its wealth allowed it to intervene on the continent even though Britain did not possess a large army.
- Her feminism has to do with making yourself the most attractive, invulnerable, compelling object that you can.
- Unless we recognize that the ecosphere is our organic whole and that we are a species inextricably linked to it, we are open to the illusion that we are separate, invulnerable and in control.
- What has made him invulnerable as patron saint, however, is his saltire symbol on our flag, the sign of our nationhood.
- I mean, not everyone wakes up one morning to find themselves invulnerable to physical harm and super strong.
- We don't find Achilles any the less interesting because we doubt the ability of any degenerate modern to calmly destroy such outnumbering hosts of his fellow beings, and send such a throng of warrior souls to hades without scath or scar to his invulnerable self. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
- gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs
- But this has triggered an arms race with bacteria, which start evolving to beat the antibiotics - and emerge as in the end as pumped-up, super-charged bacteria invulnerable to our medical weapons.