How To Use Invulnerable In A Sentence
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A force that believes it is invulnerable might dismiss or underestimate an opponent's strength, will or commitment.
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But some accidents happen because of their egocentric tendency to think of themselves as invulnerable.
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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.
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Her feminism has to do with making yourself the most attractive, invulnerable, compelling object that you can.
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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.
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What has made him invulnerable as patron saint, however, is his saltire symbol on our flag, the sign of our nationhood.
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I mean, not everyone wakes up one morning to find themselves invulnerable to physical harm and super strong.
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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
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gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs
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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.
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The presence of an "invulnerable" nation among nations that are "vulnerable" means inevitable aggression and war, a perpetual menace to civilisation and humanity.
Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene
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By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, nay, in the midst of every tremendous assailant, "might pass on with unblenched majesty," uninjured and invulnerable.
Lives of the Necromancers
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In fact, this is only true if, by election of an MP, he or she is made invulnerable to their party's later decision to dismiss them.
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Woes betide he who thinks himself invulnerable to this cakey onslaught.
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The mystic is, in short, invulnerable, and must be left, whether we relish it or not, in undisturbed enjoyment of his creed.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
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With fear of death and fear of pain unplugged, they are in a sense invulnerable and invincible.
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Our faith has to be "stedfast," a rampart of assurance, close, compact, and invulnerable.
The Epistles of St. Peter
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None the less, it is gullible to believe that Italians are invulnerable.
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Diminished sight has rendered me virtually invulnerable to advertising and marketing.
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The riveting actor, best known as the invulnerable RoboCop, has brilliantly hit the skids as Stan Liddy, a corrupt Miami PD officer who gets busted by Internal Affairs.
Cheers & Jeers: All's (Peter) Weller on Dexter
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For more than 10 years, the judiciary have been under fire from the media and some politicians, but appeared invulnerable.
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He who teaches the divine knowledge is invulnerable.
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It seems almost laughable to talk of steel shirts in these days of bullets, against which they are of course quite useless; but where one has to do with savages, armed with cutting weapons such as assegais or battleaxes, they afford the most valuable protection, being, if well made, quite invulnerable to them.
Allan Quatermain
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Stone found it hard to believe he had ever been that young, that innocent, or that invulnerable.
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The strong, invulnerable Jennifer cried at school for the third time.
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Stone found it hard to believe he had ever been that young, that innocent, or that invulnerable.
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Masten also pointed out that even the most basic of human adaptational systems are not invulnerable and require nurturance.
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If it's the case that one side's military forces are more or less invulnerable to the other's, that defense may weaken.
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It is generally understood that he owes his success in the political arena in no slight measure to the adroitness which is born of his invulnerable presence of mind.
The Beetle
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Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, coined the phrase "zone of immunity" to define the circumstances under which Israel would judge it could no longer hold off from an attack because Iran's effort to produce a bomb would be invulnerable to any strike.
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In their allowed pleasures and pastimes, let them wear that spiritual hauberk which is invulnerable to the darts of the wicked; let them steadfastly set their faces against whatever thy word disallows; and, should fiery trial and temptation beset them, enable them, having done all, to stand.
Jacques Bonneval
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We will not be satisfied until this city is safe and invulnerable to attack.
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The command bunker is virtually invulnerable, even to a nuclear attack.
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To declare enthusiasm for feminist ideals is almost a new mode of macho, a way to flaunt an invulnerable virility.
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She sounds invulnerable, not because she's powerful but because she's so darned nice.
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She sounds invulnerable, not because she's powerful but because she's so darned nice.
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Ianni points also to studies of so-called invulnerable adolescents -- those who develop into stable young adults in spite of coming from troubled homes, or other adversity.
A Much Riskier Passage
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– The days of chivalry are no more: the knight no longer sallies forth in ponderous armour, mounted upon a steed as invulnerable as himself.
Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
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The anti-heroic stance has nothing to do with being infallible or superhuman or invulnerable or dauntless.
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He could just have been a sore loser who'd met an opponent coldly invulnerable to his glowering mind games.
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In a country that seemed so invulnerable to harm, everything was lost in a single moment.
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Although Burnell liked to think himself invulnerable to rhetoric, he was no more immune than the next man.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Besides, war nowadays is waged by virtually invulnerable professionals against extremely vulnerable civilian populations.
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The endophytes make Turf Alive! lawns invulnerable to webworms, billbugs, armyworms, cutworms, aphids and some weevils.
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But they are not invulnerable on the field of play, as their European campaigns are about to demonstrate.
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After killing it, Siegfried bathed in its blood, thereby rendering himself invulnerable.
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For the tsar, Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners.
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The wire-guided missile is invulnerable to electronic countermeasures and has a very small percentage of malfunctions.
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They were totally at ease with themselves, giddy with life, eternally young, and seemingly invulnerable to the process of corporal decay.
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He has chosen the perfect target for the most invulnerable war machine in history.
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Gerry's confidence made him feel invulnerable.
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Its technology is so new, so revolutionary, that everyone assumes its so-called invulnerable defences will be impenetrable.
The White Ninja
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The sapling was the scion of a god, invulnerable, unapproachable, and so long-lived as to be, in practical terms, immortal.
The Silver Spike
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Instead we should view promises, and other people's rights, as of such towering importance that they are basically invulnerable to the calculus of social interests.
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He refers to the absence of reliable foresight and explains ‘why companies seem invulnerable one minute and aimless the next.’
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Gerry's confidence made him feel invulnerable.
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_ He was called horny because, when he slew the dragon, he bathed in its blood, and became covered with a horny hide which was invulnerable.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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They are as invulnerable to criticism as low-flying stealth bombers to detection by radar.
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If there is an invulnerable army running amok, all the rest of the sacrifices of that day seem silly and pointless.
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Who, amongst us, is invulnerable to the ravages of disease?
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Because they are so high off the ground, their drivers feel invulnerable and show no fear.
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However, I feel as though there is a way we can design a system that is invulnerable in the first place.
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Still, its effects upon this "invulnerable" god were of a marked order.
The Ivory Child
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The more invulnerable the Empire is, the more invulnerable is Canada.
Canadian Assimilation
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Their three outstanding attitudes - obliviousness to the growing disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement, illusion of invulnerable status - are persistent aspects of folly.
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The command bunker is virtually invulnerable, even to a nuclear attack.
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The plot was brewed by some Coromantee and Paw Paw negroes who had procured the services of a conjuror to make them invulnerable; and it may have been joined by several Spanish or Portuguese Indians or mestizoes who had been captured at sea and unwarrantably, as they contended, reduced to slavery.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
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Although Burnell liked to think himself invulnerable to rhetoric, he was no more immune than the next man.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The command bunker is virtually invulnerable, even to a nuclear attack.
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He might have been called the invulnerable dwarf of the fray.
Les Miserables
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He thinks the crash is the best thing that ever happened to him, that he now can eat the strawberries he was previously seriously allergic to, that he can truly savor life, that he's already dead, that he's invulnerable - he walks through traffic, shouting to the sky, "You want to kill me, but you can't!", and throws away his son's videogame because in real life people don't come back to life.
Intertribal: this is it. this is the moment of your death.
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He is invulnerable in his stronghold, but he is also terrified of prophecies.
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It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable.
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They were totally at ease with themselves, giddy with life, eternally young, and seemingly invulnerable to the process of corporal decay.
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Gerry's confidence made him feel invulnerable.
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Many daughters assume that their mothers are invulnerable.
