inexorably

Definition

In an inexorable manner; without the possibility of stopping or prevention.

Etymology

From inexorable + -ly.

Example Sentences

• "We watched as the storm clouds advanced inexorably closer to us."
• "One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!"
• "The strange group of villagers shuffled inexorably forward."

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