ineffaceable

Example Sentences

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The relic, with ghostly, ineffaceable traces of the original handiwork, is in the show.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017

The mordant which they mixed with their colours, in the bitterness of their spirit, has made the picture ineffaceable; but it no longer represents realities.

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2013

Force, in the form of history's two greatest wars, has been the century's most ineffaceable experience.

From Time Magazine Archive

It fell over Elisha like a golden robe, and struck John’s forehead, where Elisha had kissed him, like a seal ineffaceable forever.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

I must explain that we proceeded slowly, because Davy's instructions were complete,—perhaps too ideal for the majority; but for some and for me there was an ineffaceable conviction in every novel utterance.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth