How to Use implacable in a Sentence
implacable
adjective- He has an implacable hatred for his political opponents.
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Grief may or may not have its five stages, but the stages of dying are implacable.
—James Wood, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
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Blanchett is implacable in the face of the applause, the praise.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2022
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But the implacable nature of the virus may soon test this support.
—NBC News, 25 Mar. 2020
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Those regulators have been implacable in the wake of the trade war this spring.
—Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
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Langer, implacable as ever, birdied the par-5 third and the par-4 fifth to move one shot ahead.
—Ben Nuckols, The Denver Post, 28 May 2017
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The dog watches them with its implacable amber eyes.
—Maggie O’Farrell, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
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But the old life of pressing olives and herding sheep is faltering in the face of an implacable drought.
—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
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There’s nothing like that implacable tingle, that crawling dread, of films like these.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2024
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There are no heroes here, no depictions of great work by those fighting an implacable foe.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
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Black-clad and implacable, she’s filmed almost like an avenging angel.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2021
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It's got subtle kick from garlic coupled with the implacable frisson of green herbs.
—Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 26 Sep. 2017
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His actions as a statesman and diplomat have earned him the implacable contempt of many critics.
—Armen Sarkissian, WSJ, 25 May 2023
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Does the implacable fact of death have any purchase whatsoever on its possum-y heart?
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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On this score, the president is implacable.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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There should be a kind of liberation in this implacable hatred.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2021
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Xi may be more implacable and willing to retaliate against Trump this time around.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
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With Watts remaining implacable in his brilliance, the groove was allowed to slip and slide.
—Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2019
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The movie’s implacable sense of poetic justice is only equaled by its graphic smarts.
—J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2020
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The two countries are among the West’s most implacable opponents.
—Maria Snegovaya, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2024
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So implacable a quest could be taken as foolish or futile, but Gray prefers to frame it in terms of heroic striving.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
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The United States and China had been implacable foes for decades.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
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All of these last four films follow in the path of Cimino’s first three as outpourings of loss and grief in the face of implacable power.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 May 2022
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Caught between these implacable forces, Scotch producers big and small are withering on the vine.
—Alasdair Lane, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
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Moll’s movie doesn’t leave behind the same deep, implacable chill of those earlier works, but its lingering rage and sorrow are no less easy to wave aside.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
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And after a year of protests, what seemed in 2018 like stiffness — in both texts and music — now seems more implacable strength.
—New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
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In the face of an opaque, implacable adversary, strategists in Washington are keen to avoid a prolonged war.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
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Public health experts warn that the implacable spread of the virus means the outbreak could easily continue well into next year.
—Denise Grady, New York Times, 17 July 2019
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Russia is, after all, a close ally of Saudi's most implacable foe -- Iran.
—Matthew Chance, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
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What could be more American than this mania, this implacable drive that will brook no opposition?
—Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
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