How to Use unalienable in a Sentence

unalienable

adjective
  • And that the role of government is above all to secure those unalienable rights.
    Ivo Daalder, Twin Cities, 15 July 2019
  • This is taught to us from the early days, an unalienable truth, a simple fact of life, like pooping.
    Doug Demuro, Robb Report, 4 July 2023
  • Each human being is endowed with the unalienable right to life at her creation, not her birth.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 Sep. 2022
  • This country was formed for the people, by the people, to protect our unalienable rights.
    Jessica Kwong, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2017
  • That we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The promise is that all people are created equal and have certain unalienable rights.
    Karen Ebel, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
  • So much for our unalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But its message of unalienable rights, equality and liberty have echoed through time and across borders.
    Charles Edel, Twin Cities, 7 July 2019
  • Every Californian has an unalienable right to a day at the beach.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • We are endowed with certain unalienable rights and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
    Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
  • This would be determined by original grants, presumably, since land was to be unalienable, never to be bought or sold.
    Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Our nation was founded on the promise that all are created equal and endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.
    George Stanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Equal opportunity and equal treatment under the law anchor these unalienable rights.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
  • This note was a promise that all men -- yes, black men as well as white men -- would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
    Fox News, 27 Aug. 2013
  • America’s founding document states that the pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right.
    The Atlantic, 13 May 2021
  • Along with property rights, religious liberty is the cornerstone of our unalienable rights.
    Michael R. Pompeo, National Review, 23 June 2021
  • Murray goes on to say in the ensuing chapter that the nation’s soul is bound up in the founding ideals that affirm we are all created equal, with certain unalienable rights.
    Washington Post, 25 June 2021
  • This note was a promise that all men — yes, Black men as well as white men — would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
    New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • What is the character of those who bear false witness and favor Russia’s tyrannical lies over Ukrainians’ unalienable rights?
    Mark Sandy, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Among conservatives, there is the broad belief that the right to own a weapon for self-defense is every bit as inherent and unalienable as the right to speak freely or practice your religion.
    David French, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
  • That idea is that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
    Theo Burman, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Those are the three unalienable rights enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
  • Our core values that all people are created equal, with the unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, have become more of a reality.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 June 2024
  • In America, a land where people are supposed to be endowed by unalienable rights, police brutality should never be fodder for applause lines and smiles.
    Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 30 July 2017
  • From the earliest embryonic stage to the very end of life, each and every human being is a person and a bearer of fundamental dignity and an unalienable right to life.
    Jeff Bradford, National Review, 15 June 2023
  • We are based on a set of uncommon ideas—that all people are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
    TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
  • In exercising the power, Rubio has fully embraced the idea that visas are a privilege that can be rescinded based on behavior — and are not an unalienable right.
    David Catanese, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The idea those young men and those old men hated was precisely and literally the idea on which this Republic was founded, the idea that any man may claim his equal manhood in this country, his unalienable right.
    Burt Solomon, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2018
  • For decades, speech has faced very few limits Freedom of expression was understood by the nation’s founders to be a natural, unalienable right that belongs to every human being.
    Lynn Greenky, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence don’t include life, liberty and soda paid for by someone else.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026

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