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How to use the word indelible in a Sentence?

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A high tide of 187 cm is going to leave an indelible wound.

Mayor Luigi Brugnaro

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We disagree with them and are here to prove, with two great casts depicting' All in the Family' and' The Jeffersons,' the timelessness of human nature, i can not wait to see what these glorious performers make in our time of these indelible characters.

Norman Lear

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Human activity is causing deforestation on a massive scale, we know that the diversity of bird communities is impacted by the availability of forests -- when forests are cut down in favor of, for example, palm oil monoculture, bird diversity is slashed. It's probable that, if this kind of deforestation continues unabated, it will leave an indelible signature on the evolution of birdlife.

Daniel Field

Found on CNN
6 years ago

He's very proud of the fact that he's a builder and that the things he builds are indelible, he knows all the Wall Street guys, gets along fine with them, but he is not the toast of Wall Street.

Roger Stone

Found on CNN
9 years ago

President Ed Gilligan contributions have left an indelible imprint on practically every area of our business... and, most recently, the group forging our digital partnerships and driving payment innovations.

Chief Executive Kenneth Chenault

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Speaker Wright was a person of deep courage, brilliant eloquence, and complete mastery of the legislative process. Speaker Wright's strong, decisive leadership built an indelible legacy of progress, not only in his beloved state of Texas, but around the world. Wright championed prosperity for every working family, and helped lead the way to peace to Central America.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Pat Quinn, pat is one of hockey's most respected individuals whose lifetime involvement as a player, coach and executive has made an indelible mark on the game.

Jim Gregory

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

When I arrived in San Francisco in 1957 I discovered a community existing on the edge of the city unlike any other in America. Reckless, creative, frenetic, insane, it was too insane for a lot of people, for not many survived. I did, however, and in surviving came of age in the cheap pads and artists' lofts in North Beach. In the process I lost my innocence and my youth, but gained an indelible memory of a bunch of crazy people who lived, fought, struggled, loved, and even died together with a sense of elan and community that I had never experienced before nor have found since.

Jerry Kamstra

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 1871

added by anonymous
14 years ago

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.

Sylvia Levi

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work

Orison Swett Marden

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths.

Alexis Carrel

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Charles Darwin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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