inevitable - use in sentences

Preposition: that

  • mistake: However, the frenetic tempo of e-commerce makes it inevitable that mistakes will occasionally occur.
  • someone: Although we try to keep our prices as low as possible it's inevitable that someone will try to offer a better price.

Modifying Another Word

  • almost: Despite the almost inevitable US bias it is still worth a visit.
  • seemingly: A composition that is seemingly inevitable, not labored.
  • perhaps: This is perhaps inevitable, given that the interest has arisen directly from the social sciences.
  • virtually: It is virtually inevitable that all information not strictly kept under wraps will make it onto the WWW.
  • but: The reason is that it is all but inevitable that there will be sizeable gilt issues coming along for the foreseeable future.
  • somehow: We seem to see it as somehow inevitable, or at least completely beyond our control or influence.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: However, such a shift does not make success inevitable: effort does.

Modifies a noun

  • consequence: Every action has inevitable consequences, which mold the future.
  • demise: Some try to salvage the dominant paradigm with endless minute adjustments that merely prolong its inevitable demise.
  • conclusion: Surely New Labor was the inevitable conclusion of Kinnock's modernisation process?
  • backlash: This way, the Referee obtains the name before the inevitable backlash of incredulity.
  • corollary: With the inevitable corollary that what should be a corporate benefit has just become a corporate exposure!
  • trade-off: This is partly explained by the US blockade, but is there an inevitable trade-off between growth and equity?

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: Now a trip up to Teesside seems inevitable to resolve the league.
  • become: Somewhere in this big bang time the eventual formation of Stan's Cafe became inevitable.
  • look: Change looks inevitable; we need to address the end result with open negotiation.
  • consider: Contact between cheeses and transfer of some cheese material was considered inevitable.

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