96 examples of inapplicable in sentences

The term "Mud Lake" is, however, not applicable to this lake, as only a comparatively small part of it is shallow or muddy; and it is nearly as inapplicable to Marsh Lake, as the latter is not markedly muddy along the west side, and from the appearance of the east shore one would not judge it to be so, as the banks appear to be high and gravelly.

This could be applied only where we place a piece of music, frequently practised; but it is totally inapplicable to a new piece, which is played by the professor with equal facility, though he has never seen it before.

Perhaps her terms would have been more lenient, certainly not harder, as she would have understood that conditions such as we have imposed on the losers are simply inapplicable.

The too indiscriminate admission to that employment, which requires both abilities and integrity, has given rise to injurious reflections, which are totally inapplicable to many very respectable men who exercise it with reputation and honour.

He spoke of the danger of pity, in some cases a commendable and Christian virtue, but inapplicable to this pernicious sect.

It appears then that the second argument is wholly inapplicable and false: that it is false in its application, because those, who were the objects of the curse, were a totally distinct people: that it is false in its proof, because no such distinguishing marks, as have been specified, are to be found in the divine writings: and that, if the proof could be made out, it would be now inapplicable, as the curse has been long completed.

It appears then that the second argument is wholly inapplicable and false: that it is false in its application, because those, who were the objects of the curse, were a totally distinct people: that it is false in its proof, because no such distinguishing marks, as have been specified, are to be found in the divine writings: and that, if the proof could be made out, it would be now inapplicable, as the curse has been long completed.

not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous; unconformable &c 83. irrelevant, inapplicable; not pertinent, not to the, purpose; impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes

In this particular work we may derive a most instructive lesson, that in certain points, as of religion in relation to law, the 'medio tutissimus ibis' is inapplicable.

A very sound argument is here disguised in a false analogy, an inapplicable precedent, and a sophistical form.

The rules are alien and inapplicable; the process presumptuous, yea, preposterous.

I grant that division and separation are terms inapplicable, yet surely three distinct though undivided Gods, are three Gods.

The following fugitive note will illustrate the trend of his thoughts, and is not inapplicable to conditions at the present day: "Are not the refining influences of the fine arts needed, doubly needed, in our country?

The word "Lord" became clothed with a majesty and power which rendered it inapplicable, in my views, to any human person.

Article 5, being an exemption from a particular duty in France, will of course be omitted as inapplicable to Spain.

Articles 9 and 10, concerning fisheries, to be omitted as inapplicable.

It is as inapplicable to these as it is to Weymouth, though the latter seems to insist upon it more than the rest.

In crowded cities or in their vicinity, the effect was generally ascribed to the rest of animated beings, while in localities where such an explanation was inapplicable, it was supposed to arise from a favourable direction of the prevailing wind.

"Had he exhibited such sentences as contained ideas inapplicable to young minds, or which were of a trivial or injurious nature.

Let a woman receive or visit one of the demi-monde, (the technical use of the word is happily inapplicable here,) and she might as well earn her living by her own labor, or do any other disreputable thing; but her brother may pay court to the most doubtful, and mothers will only shake their heads and say, "He must sow his wild oats; he'll get over all that by-and-by.

The principle, that value is proportional to cost of production, being consequently inapplicable, we must revert to a principle anterior to that of cost of production, and from which this last flows as a consequence,namely, the principle of demand and supply.

The wages of any other labour are here an inapplicable criterion.

No one who understands poetry, it seems to me, would dispute this, were it not that, falling away from his experience, or misled by theory, he takes the word "meaning" in a sense almost ludicrously inapplicable to poetry.

The assumption in this is that the "general property tax" is an irremediable failure, and is particularly inapplicable to corporations.

Continually something is becoming superfluous, inapplicable, or wanting in the work of the past.

96 examples of  inapplicable  in sentences