How to Use unkillable in a Sentence

unkillable

adjective
  • Instead, the show has become a vessel for both deep pain and lasting, unkillable hope.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Like things smothered by their own Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2021
  • One of these things will prove true in the resurrection of a truly unkillable franchise.
    Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Thus, Dek straps her to his back and carries her on his quest to bring back the unkillable creature as a trophy for his father.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 July 2025
  • And then there’s Dolores, the shape-shifting unkillable host who evolves from sweet li’l thing to mass slaughterer.
    Dystopias Aug. 8, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2022
  • This should fix the massive balance issues the game suffered with at launch where players with top-tier gear were unkillable for those with lower tiers.
    Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • But as these 28 standout examples of the genre show us, the art of the zombie is borderline unkillable.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • Then, there's the Kalisk – an apex predator that's apparently unkillable.
    Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • In the very near future, a species of large, seemingly unkillable spider-like monsters appears and wipes out most of humanity.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Here was the ancient and unkillable idea that makeup, photo retouching, and now filters threaten the mental health of women.
    Charlotte Shane, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In our censorious era, there is something wonderfully unkillable about the old gods and heroes.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
  • These are stories told brilliantly — substance meeting its match in style — in which reality might be inescapable, but hope is unkillable.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • How many people are prepared to take on Keanu Reeves' seemingly unkillable killer John Wick?
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Yautja hunter Dek is an outcast from his tribe who hunts a seemingly unkillable prey, aided by the android Thia.
    Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
  • At this point, June is more unkillable handmaid Terminator than woman.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
  • Since his inception nearly 75 years ago, British secret agent James Bond has proven to be unkillable.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
  • Gotta go original recipe here — a predictably unkillable funk standard, albeit one from an extremely problematic artist.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2022
  • One of the most unkillable misconceptions is that if a language has no word for a particular concept, then its speakers must have trouble conceiving of it.
    Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2012
  • Our potty-mouthed and essentially unkillable protagonist huffs a few breaths from his gas oven before lying down on several barrels full of test fuel.
    Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 14 May 2018
  • The existence of near-unkillable fungi makes future Mars rover missions more fraught and past ones potential seeds of terrestrial life on the red planet.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 May 2026
  • Today, a decade and a half on from that Times piece, the high-school reunion remains a bizarrely unkillable institution in American public life.
    Jordan Michelman, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • As the son of an angel and a demon, Dante is virtually unkillable, and is easily one of the most powerful characters in gaming.
    Gene Park, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The young blood’s plan is to kill the Kalis, an apex predator said to be unkillable, and bring its head home to dad, who Dek imagines will finally accept him as his son with the right trophy kill.
    Andy Crump, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And if everyone thought Neeson was unkillable, then his climactic death would be significantly more shocking.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Nothing was going to kill the seemingly unkillable Mountain except total destruction.
    Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 13 May 2019
  • So far, this has meant creating a super version of my already strong Bleed Devastator build, which can now become even more unkillable and scale its damage to new heights with more Anomaly boosts.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Knull sends unkillable alien creatures called xenophages after Venom and Eddie, with the intent of killing one or both and bringing back the codex so Knull can unleash destruction and despair upon the universe.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Speaking of unkillable animation, there are new seasons of Beavis and Butt-Head and Futurama returning as well.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025
  • The theatrical vocabulary that suggests, despite everything, that there might be an alchemic, unkillable power to this form, and by extension, to journalism, to art, to all pursuit of truth in miraculous expression?
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Much like the Terminator himself, the franchise seems unkillable — especially at a time when conversations about artificial intelligence abound.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 15 July 2024

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