How to Use unkillable in a Sentence
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But a twist on the unkillable killer is gleefully bloody.
— Jim Kiest, ExpressNews.com, 20 Oct. 2020 -
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 -
One of these things will prove true in the resurrection of a truly unkillable franchise.
— Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017 -
How many people are prepared to take on Keanu Reeves' seemingly unkillable killer John Wick?
— Clark Collis, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022 -
Like things smothered by their own Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts.
— Quartz Staff, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2021 -
The nuptial rituals feel similarly stale and unkillable: the proposal, the vows, the first dance.
— Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 June 2019 -
At the very least, the thrillable, unkillable Tom Cruise and his megawatt grin managed to pull off something harder than a Mach-10 barrel roll: a sequel to a 35-year-old movie that actually works.
— Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2022 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
In our censorious era, there is something wonderfully unkillable about the old gods and heroes.
— Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023 -
But lumping all tardigrade species into one unkillable chimera was a fatal flaw in this argument, according to tardigrade expert William R. Miller.
— Ben Guarino, ajc, 14 July 2017 -
At this point, June is more unkillable handmaid Terminator than woman.
— Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019 -
As one of the officers stands to respond to the vandalism report, his body camera sweeps the room, showing the Trump flag, a U.S. flag and a silhouette of a tardigrade — a tiny organism celebrated for being virtually unkillable.
— Mike Carter, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023 -
In director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s film, Andy – a warrior doing her thing for more than a millennia – heads up a squad of near-unkillable mercenaries who discover another one of their own.
— Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 4 July 2020 -
In director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s film, Andy – a warrior doing her thing for a few millennia – heads up a squad of near-unkillable mercenaries who discover another one of their own.
— Brian Truitt, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2020 -
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 -
Gotta go original recipe here — a predictably unkillable funk standard, albeit one from an extremely problematic artist.
— Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2022 -
Like any good, unkillable government project, the ISS has its roots sunk in congressional districts all over the country, where manufacturers and suppliers have long relied on regular contracts to continue servicing the station.
— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Feb. 2018 -
Nothing was going to kill the seemingly unkillable Mountain except total destruction.
— Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 13 May 2019 -
Sure, turning Glenn Close’s scorned Alex Forrest into a nearly unkillable slasher villain undermined anything that was thematically interesting about the character and the movie.
— Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023 -
Jepsen’s continually delightful career embodies the truth about great bubblegum music: Its squishy sweetness contains hard, unkillable realism.
— Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2022 -
Like the supposedly unkillable Immortals of ancient Persia, the targeting mesh maintains its strength by continual replenishment, with each casualty being immediately replaced with a fresh drone.
— David Hambling, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
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