How to Use redoubtable in a Sentence
redoubtable
adjective- There is a new biography of the redoubtable Winston Churchill.
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No team has used more pitchers this season than the redoubtable Rays.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
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Even the last episodes about the redoubtable Hopper and Parsons link fame to its eclipse.
—The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
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This project sounds like a shoddy knock-off, despite the presence of the redoubtable Edie Falco.
—Robert Bianco, USA TODAY, 19 May 2017
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Grandma Ruby, the artist’s eponym, was a redoubtable guardian who kept her granddaughter safe by keeping her busy.
—New York Times, 1 Mar. 2021
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Our second father/son-in-law street-name duo was the redoubtable Otis/Chandler pairing.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
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The redoubtable Harriet gave birth in the back of a bullock cart a few days later, amid the din of nearby shellfire.
—Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
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The redoubtable Tscorn flexed his keyboard to file a report that also took in Gareth Pugh’s first Paris show.
—Luke Leitch, Vogue, 11 June 2021
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One was Tim Moore, the redoubtable Republican speaker of the state House.
—David Perlmutt, New York Times, 31 July 2023
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Also present is the Earl’s redoubtable mother (Maggie Smith), who dispenses bons mots like sour lemon drops.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2019
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That would excite me enough even if the movie didn’t boast two leads as redoubtable as Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
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The redoubtable Dave Neiwert has finally finished his magnum opus about the alt-right and the rise of modern neo-fascism.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Dec. 2017
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Real Madrid could risk absorbing pressure, conceding chances, safe in the knowledge that Courtois is a redoubtable last line of defense.
—New York Times, 28 May 2022
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This likable and redoubtable Bruins team, players who poured their hearts into the season and sacrificed their bodies during it, deserved better than to go out with a clunker.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2019
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During the three-hour tour, our guide, the redoubtable Terry Cotter, regaled us with tales of African safaris and animal anecdotes.
—Karen D’souza, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2017
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But the redoubtable Mary, intuiting the plotters’ goals, is determined to escape Holyrood Palace and their bloody grasp.
—Tom Nolan, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
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For different ecology, head south to the Western Ghats, a redoubtable mountain range hugging the southwest coast of the peninsula.
—Payal Dhar, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
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Tis time round, however, plot driver is the sudden dependence of a a redoubtable mother, portrayed by Adrian Ozores, who won a best supporting actress award.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
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The climax, boosted by redoubtable guest star Carol Burnett, was sorrowful and striking and wholly organic to the 60+ episodes that came before.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2022
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The third of Book World’s Pulitzer Prize winners was the redoubtable and more than a little intimidating Jonathan Yardley.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
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Leading the pretour was Frances Brook, a redoubtable Englishwoman with an authoritative manner and a flowery hat.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2017
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The usually redoubtable maker of Swiss Army knives suffers a rare and humiliating military defeat with the Sentinel, which is both hard to open and, thanks to a flimsy and tricky liner lock, hard to close.
—Dylan Tweney, WIRED, 29 June 2009
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There’s a standard framing device — Baranov, retired, is interviewed in his country home by an American author (the redoubtable Jeffrey Wright).
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
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The team has a record 31 wins at the short track, which typifies the performance and resilience of NASCAR’s winningest outfit and its redoubtable founder.
—ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
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Within a somber court, flanked on one side by the offices of Paris’s most redoubtable police investigators and on the other by courts of justice, stands an oasis of exquisite beauty, a little church known as the Sainte Chapelle.
—Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
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No discussion about Downton Abbey would be complete without a nod to the late actress Maggie Smith, who played the redoubtable Dowager Countess of Grantham.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 June 2026
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The redoubtable reptilian mascot, which made its debut in 1999, was conceived by the Martin Agency to both reinforce Geico’s name and help the public figure out how to pronounce it.
—Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
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And the redoubtable Danny Meyer has re-cast the Marriott Marquis Hotel’s vast revolving restaurant on the 47th floor as The View, where lobster spaghetti alla carbonara sells for $42, Prime rib goes for $69, ribeye for $74 and a non-alcohol Shirley Temple cocktail for $16.
—John Mariani, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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