How to Use immovable in a Sentence
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This is a case of very resistible force meets immovable object.
—Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2020
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The officers then laid the men, immovable in the mats, across the plane rows.
—Molly O’Toole, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
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And not long ago, that big, immovable paperweight was ready to lift off.
—Steve Hartman, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2023
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For two decades, Tomlin was an immovable force.
—Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
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The shape, the cut and the fit of jeans can change, but the rest of it pretty much remains immovable.
—Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
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The place is rock solid, built on a foundation as immovable as that wood bar.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
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So when the immovable object meets the irresistible force, who wins?
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 June 2021
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In these early episodes, the placid grin on Sudeikis’s face is immovable, as if it has been painted on.
—The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
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For the next few years, the unstoppable force and the immovable object will be teammates.
—Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 24 Nov. 2020
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To me, the Pence signature is the perfect head of immovable white hair.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
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This Stars team used to be the immovable object teams hated playing against.
—Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2022
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Across centuries, rulers who built their power on fear or oppression seemed immovable in their day.
—John Hope Bryant, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
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Monuments can often seem to be an immovable part of our landscape.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
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The coronavirus is held in chains, immovable and shorn of its virulence.
—Tulasi Srinivas, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
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In some cases, the truckers removed their tires and bled their brake lines to make their trucks immovable, the police said.
—New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022
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The college admissions process has been so entrenched and immovable for decades.
—Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021
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There’s no clear path to the postseason, but no immovable object, either.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
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What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
—Doha Madani, NBC news, 1 July 2026
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Mountain ranges are large, immovable obstacles that alter air flow.
—Renée Rigdon, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
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David Kämpf’s now-immovable contract is a prime example.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
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As a male, Jordan is like a brick wall, a tank, immovable and can withstand a really strong impact.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
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The bench units, led by the immovable Jamal Shead, thwart first, second and third tries to fight to the basket.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
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Writing would be the immovable boulder at the center of everything.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
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But the person who set the immovable screen wasn’t one of Robinson’s teammates or coaches or trainers.
—Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
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Rival cars are immovable objects that you’ll sometimes get stuck and turned around on, and other times, completely bounce off.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 4 Feb. 2026
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The numbers are just one of many immovable obstacles for the GOP.
—Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2020
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The immovable object that will stop its march for glory cold is the towering overhang of apartments that can’t find buyers.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2021
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Best of all, the divider gets turned this way and that to suit my moods, creating curves and semicircles against the backdrop of immovable straight walls.
—Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2021
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According to lawyers and people who have seen the area, each cell has its own toilet, as well as an immovable iron bed and a table anchored to the wall.
—Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
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The raging immovable object will butt up against the cool, collected irresistible force.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026
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