How to Use irreversible in a Sentence

irreversible

adjective
  • The crisis has done irreversible harm to the countries' relations.
  • He suffered an irreversible loss of vision.
  • But the lives lost are an irreversible price of this war.
    — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The slides jump back in time, to the irreversible error.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • Be warned that doing this will break a lot of things and is irreversible.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Many of them were unaware the surgery was irreversible.
    — Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 20 Oct. 2020
  • This time, an irreversible silence fell around the city of Naples.
    — SI.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The scientists said that while the damage done to the oceans is in many ways irreversible, there is hope for the future.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
  • These are big, rapid shifts that occur in response to small changes, and may be irreversible, at least in the short term.
    — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019
  • For many of them, the cult exacted an irreversible toll.
    — Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • They were exposed to a pathogen that goes by the name Logan Roy, and that disease is irreversible.
    — Vulture, 29 May 2023
  • And what’s the cap on a comeback when so much of the public tide outside the core fanbase has seemed irreversible?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 June 2022
  • At this point, the heat has done irreversible damage that can leave the victim disabled for years to come.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
  • Changes could happen to my body that would be irreversible.
    — ELLE, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The damage that these vapes do to people's lungs is irreversible.
    — Corey Williams, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The damage that these vapes do to people’s lungs is irreversible.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • However, the ice ages that drove us out of the trees, condemning us to a life that isn’t ours, were irreversible.
    — Ann Goldstein, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • The good news is, not all damage caused by poor childhood habits is irreversible.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And the prince, who turned 40 in September, wrote about some of those irreversible moments in his book Spare.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
  • And the prince, who turned 40 in September, wrote about some of those irreversible moments in his book Spare.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Many of the factors that lead to worsening floods in cities are irreversible.
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2022
  • As of now, this sort of damage is irreversible, something Payne knows all too well.
    — Travis M. Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • His irreversible loss of hope plays as a counterpoint to Martha’s.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2024
  • This shift has already been set in motion and its changes are irreversible.
    — Nicole Silver, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • By the time the impacts are fully recognized, the change may be irreversible.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • But so many things have happened that are irreversible.
    — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • Moreover, damage to the donor area can be irreversible.
    — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • And the report says many changes to the oceans and sea level are irreversible for centuries to millennia.
    — ABC News, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, but also taps into questions about the irreversible nature of time.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2025
  • This project would build massive 13-story transmission towers across Carroll, Frederick and Baltimore counties, cutting through working farms, forest ecosystems and conservation lands with irreversible impact.
    — Karyn Strickler, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2025

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