244 examples of irreparable in sentences

The slanderer therefore doth engage himself into great straits, incurring an obligation to repair an almost irreparable mischief.

At this moment of the fall, irreparable for the cowards, the Right was worthy, the Left was great.

The grief felt was so profound, that it seemed irreparable to the men who mourned their beloved friend, as the leader who was also their constant companion, and always cheerful with them under every adversity.

False to the very principles of trade, misguided in our policy, unmindful of our duty, what almost irreparable mischief had we done to that continent!

And again on Dec. 20th, 1835, he wrote to his sister Ann, "My friendsI may almost say my dearest friends Professor Airy and his family have left Cambridge, he being appointed Astronomer Royal at Greenwichto me an irreparable loss; but I shall probably go and see how they look in their new abode.

Take Belgium as an extreme example; leaving aside the irreparable destruction of historic buildings and priceless treasures, there are many million pounds' worth of houses and farm buildings, shops, warehouses, factories, public buildings, ships, railway stations, and bridges to be replaced.

The people's instinct feels the danger of losing an irreparable opportunity, and hence the fact, never yet met in history, that a homeless exile becomes an object of such sympathy, rolling on like a sea, in spite of all the passionate rage of my enemies, and all the Christian tolerance of the Reverend Father Jesuits, which they in such an evident manner show to me.

So that for a moment he had dreamed of trying the treatment with the old mother; then he began to have scruples, he felt a sort of awe, without counting that madness at that age was total, irreparable ruin.

As such, his death was irreparable damage to Mahomet's safety from their hostilities.

The snakes were somehow missing (a loss not irreparable), and so were the purple gallinules; for them, the boy thought, it was still rather early in the season, although he had killed one a few days before, and for proof had brought me a wing.

I sympathize with you, with the nation, and with good men through the world in this irreparable loss sustained by us all.

It was in fact his obvious policy to cede Hanover in perpetuity to Prussia, and have rendered thereby the breach between the Houses of Brandenburgh and Hanover irreparable and irreconcilable.

Writing to his parents from New York, on April 8, 1825, he says: "I have as much as I can do, but after being fatigued at night and having my thoughts turned to my irreparable loss, I am ready almost to give up.

His loss to the country, under all the circumstances, has been justly regarded as irreparable.

Had he understood matters fully, while yet at a distance, he would have avoided a mistake which occasioned him and his friends intense regret, and which proved irreparable.

was France to see another année terrible, a second edition of 1870, with the same old tale of unreadiness, corruption in high quarters, breakdown of organization, and national humiliation after irreparable disasters?

It is a human story, giving the experience of only one individual in a great battle, but clearly enough there emerges from it the truth of that great operation which did irreparable damage to the German right wing in its plan of campaign.

It is true that we shall have lost an appalling number of the best of our manhood, and this is a loss that is irreparable in many of its aspects.

A certain amount of destruction of crops and other property was inevitable, but on the whole the loss was not so great as was at one time feared, and much was saved that at first seemed irreparable.

The humiliation was deep and the losses were irreparable.

But the mischief is already irreparable.

It has seemed to most of our courts and most of our judges that the State fulfilled its whole duty to its women citizens when it guaranteed them the right freely to contracteven though they consented, or their poverty consented, to contracts which involved irreparable harm to themselves, the community, and future generations.

"And also," he said to himself at last, "there is a lack of dignity about Miss Thoroughbung herself which would do me an irreparable injury.

The teacher often does irreparable injury by rash action at the outset.

All suffering seems to have descended upon her,and there are some natures whose power of enjoyment, so infinite, yet so deep as to be hidden, is balanced only by as infinite a power to endure; she learned anew, as she says, and intensely, "what a long dream of misery is life from which health's bloom has been brushed,that irreparable bloom,and how far more terrible is the doom of those in whom the nerve-life has been untoned."

244 examples of  irreparable  in sentences