How To Use Irrepressible In A Sentence

The screw driver is mightier than the sword, hey, Dink?" called the irrepressible Roy, as Dinky hurried away into the darkness. Tom Slade with the Colors
The thing about City is that when they get the wind in their sails, they become an almost irrepressible force. Times, Sunday Times
They were also usually, if not always, a restraining influence on the more abrasive, if not irrepressible side of Mercer.
The irrepressible young carrot-top was generally considered the outstanding player on that golden English afternoon in spite of the Geoff Hurst's three goals. Tears for souvenirs as Best and Stiles memorabilia go up for auction
Suddenly the procession is interrupted by irrepressible sobbing.

Vehicles break down, complaints come in, work needs to be rescheduled, but it is all done with irrepressible good humour and charm.
There's a portrait of him in Llanberis vicarage in which he looks as irrepressible and intelligent as this action implies.
The conflict thus established, gradually but surely sectionalizing party lines, was as inevitable as it was irrepressible. "Marse Henry" : an autobiography,
But after 23 years in the cold, the irrepressible necktie is making a comeback in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
He had everything, the mod sense of dress, an upwardly mobile lifestyle, a healthy contempt for authority and an irrepressible belief in his own creativity.
Songs of profound depth were tinged with an irrepressible air of mischief. Times, Sunday Times
Burke wants his talk with the irrepressible raconteur to take place as an actionless walkabout. The Speculist: Luckily, we don't face these challenges...
It is as an irrepressible science geek that his moment in the spotlight has come. Times, Sunday Times
So irrepressible in youth is the thrust to become," one specialist has warned, "that it will surface somehow, if not in constructive self-expression, then in wilful vandalism or defiant apathy or even suicide as an ultimate, tragic expression of self-determination. Our Responsibility to Youth
An irresistible force when the mood takes him, he was irrepressible in the two Tests he played.
For they know that within you is a force that is like that of a hurricane - wild, natural, untamed and irrepressible.
I'm sure I can only begin to imagine what a parent can feel to have their child ripped away from their lives by irrepressible crime.
His irrepressible sense of humour shines through. Times, Sunday Times
Those irrepressible scamps Edward Sorel and Richard Lingeman offer their own take on the current financial crisis via Vanity Fair. Straight for the Art: ‘Hell in Crisis’ | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
The various programmes captured his larger-than-life persona and irrepressible, outrageous flamboyance both on and off stage. Times, Sunday Times
Daisy May was an irrepressible, hugely energetic dog and a real pleasure to be with. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
an irrepressible chatterbox
He was unstuffy, with an irrepressible sense of humour and fun. Times, Sunday Times
To this terrible, irrepressible yearning, (surely more or less down underneath in most human souls) this universal democratic comradeshipthis old, eternal, yet ever-new interchange of adhesiveness, so fitly emblematic of AmericaI have given in that book, undisguisedly, declaredly, the openest expression. Preface, 1876, To the Two-Volume Centennial Edition of L. of G. and “Two Rivulets.” Collect
Some of the men now coming over it with the police had travelled it with Wolseley a few years previously and would have vivid recollections of the flies and mud and portages and the need of manufacturing skidways over the bogs, but they would also recall the irrepressible and uproarious spirit in which they used to sing of their additional accomplishments in the rollicking "Jolly Boys" chorus: Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
For they know that within you is a force that is like that of a hurricane - wild, natural, untamed and irrepressible.
Yet there's an overall irrepressible exuberance. Times, Sunday Times
But there is also a sense of irrepressible fun, particularly in the lengthy, inventive and colourful swearing. The Sun
A combination of irrepressible talent and burning ambition saw him reach his goal in double quick time.
Indeed, it is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power, can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions, to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of the dungeon. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
To his fans, though, he is a beacon of irrepressible exuberance. Times, Sunday Times
With her irrepressible curiosity, humour and constant seeking out of what the day could offer, she opened my eyes to what life can be. Times, Sunday Times
Plastic surgeons believe they may have found a better way to beat that most irrepressible sign of early aging—the saggy neck.
Even the irrepressible Bean was silent.
Barcelona's star-studded squad includes the irrepressible Lionel Messi and a sizeable chunk of the all-conquering Spanish national side.
Surely it is only a matter of time before technology grows and becomes such an irrepressible force that to try to restrict it would be folly.
But the artists and musicians, poets and students and philosophers of the old town proved irksomely irrepressible.
The prospector is a man of small pretensions, of peaceful disposition, indomitable will, boundless perseverance, remarkable endurance, undoubted courage, irrepressible hopefulness, and unlimited hospitality He is the friend of every man till he has evidence that the man is his enemy, and he is the most respected man in the mining regions of the West. The California Birthday Book
Khan was in irrepressible form from the start, raining in fast and accurate punches from every angle, to leave the hapless Korean stunned.
Mr. Cosell shot back in his memoir, He ' d try to compensate for his lack of knowledgeability by singing a song or talking to his imaginary alter ego, Harley Smydlapp, and everybody would write about how funny and irrepressible he was. From Star on Football Field to Cut-Up in Broadcast Booth
We will be able to continue to manage without Ken's irrepressible scaremongering for the foreseeable future.
The villains then were misguided terrorists, the perpetrators now are our irrepressible politicians.
His exuberance, gaiety and intelligence made him many friends and his irrepressible high spirits and disregard for authority sometimes strained the patience of his tolerant and long suffering housemaster.
The irrepressible reeds strain to soak up cubistic rays of sunlight. Buzzine » Order, Chaos, Light
It gushed from her lips like a very fountain of happiness, irrepressible, springing towards the stars in jets and spurts of melody, falling with a ripple in which the music of the stars themselves seemed to echo; almost in the moment of its fall rising again, as though it panted with joy -- not with weariness, for the spirit of it called impetuously to life. Major Vigoureux
Note the form of the exhortation, 'exercise thyself _towards_ godliness,' which involves the same thought as is expressed in Paul's other utterance of irrepressible aspiration and effort, 'Not as if I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after,' or as he had just said, 'press towards the mark,' in continual approximation to the ideal. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
The scaling him with chairs for ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round his neck, pommel his back, and kick his legs in irrepressible affection! A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 2 The First of the Three Spirits | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
Then there are bands that have an irrepressible spark that makes you want to keep listening and watching no matter what they sling at you.
They amazed younger people with their irrepressible energy, their capacity for work, and their profound knowledge. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
Now the irrepressible cellist has ventured out on the longest limb yet, embracing musical multiculturalism on an unprecedented scale.
Wary of ideas, thirsty for direct experience of God, people are drawn to the movement's certainty, its irrepressible spirit, its joy.
What is undeniably true is that he was blessed with an irrepressible self-confidence that was not shaken by a bout of childhood polio. Times, Sunday Times
Juliette Blightman deals in deceptive banalities that, through meticulously selective stage management, conjure moments of reverie on the time-honoured, irrepressible passing of time. This week's new exhibitions
At least Busted have a hormonal effervescence and irrepressible spunkiness that's genuinely teenage.
The critical were there, representing various shades of belief and prejudice, from the quiet repressionist, who, disdaining emotion, views with dispassionate coldness the great tenets of the faith, to the irrepressible enthusiast whose spiritual understanding is often lost beneath a foam of feeling; from the instructed brother who reads his title clear with logical accuracy in the Scriptures and glories in his standing with belieing indifference to his state, to the anxious soul whose hope of heaven veers with every changing wind of fitful emotion. The First Soprano
Some former colleagues wonder whether the irrepressible dealmaker will have enough to do.
Then next Saturday Feb. 18, the 6th Annual Nolafunk.com Mardi Gras Ball arrives with the combination of the irrepressible funster Kermit Ruffins and his BBQ Swingers, the uber-funky Bonerama brass band, and jam-band favorite Marco Benevento. A Young Lion, All Grown Up
But the artists and musicians, poets and students and philosophers of the old town proved irksomely irrepressible.
Their language was ripe, humour irrepressible, and energy unmatchable. Times, Sunday Times
Hey, not all kids are irrepressible, mischievous, restless tykes!
'This,' says the _Courier_, 'has been called a fratricidal war by some, by others an irrepressible conflict between freedom and slavery. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
An irrepressible figure, Demarco's commitment to bringing radical artists to Scotland remains undiminished.
Refusing to be rattled by their losses, however, Oxford responded with a goal and a point from the irrepressible Brendan McGurk.
Songs of profound depth were tinged with an irrepressible air of mischief. Times, Sunday Times
The former Partick Thistle co-manager is still as irrepressible as ever, still as frisky and enthusiastic as a puppy.
We meet, too, the pioneers of agricultural science from across the nation, people such as the irrepressible Liberty Hyde Bailey, a ruralist if ever there was one.
It is as an irrepressible science geek that his moment in the spotlight has come. Times, Sunday Times
It is the brainchild of Franny Armstrong, the irrepressible film-maker behind The Age of Stupid, a powerful docudrama about our failure to tackle climate change.
Lou hung tough and earned an increasingly fine living simply by being himselfa broadcaster, a bandleader, an irrepressible salesman, and a radio station chieftain.
As someone who worries that the cynics will be right about New Orleans - that the old city will never reflower - Baum provides a testment to the beating and irrepressible heart of that city, still capable of leaving a unique mark on those who seek it out. from the "Journal's" final entry: The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
As Ben Allan jokes and jousts with his irrepressible father at the old folks home, and his lethargic son in front of the television set, or conducts his deeply felt if technically chaste affair with Carla, Homel is reflecting in narrative about death and loss, desire, art and madness. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
She walks the earth with a heavy confidence, an irrepressible swagger and cadence, due to those nighttime reflections.
Her innate and irrepressible sense of humor made it all happen.
Advancing down the kloof with that stealthy gliding motion peculiar to the feline race, the leopard soon came in sight of a fine bushbok, whose sleek sides drew from him an irrepressible snicker of delight. The Settler and the Savage
There is a throb of constant excitement, an irrepressible energy as palpable as the tangled screech of a bird chorus in the wash, glow and lightness before sunrise.
He, at 80, irrepressible as ever, practically pashed the new The Age News Headlines
This release combines his seemingly irrepressible streak of wiseass with both introspection and sentiment. Midweek Music Moment: Rockin’ the Suburbs, Ben Folds « A Progressive on the Prairie
But this young Chinese girl has an indomitable spirit and an irrepressible enthusiasm.
It remains uncertain, despite his irrepressible need to perform in public, whether Jackson himself will take the stand.
He was never a mere faultfinder, but he was endowed with the gifts of imagination and sympathy, leading him to feel himself a part of every situation he was placed in, and with the irrepressible impulse to action driving him to take upon himself the burden of it. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
Underneath this official language of inevitability and necessity, Woolf detects an irrepressible internal pressure.
These civil actions failed to stop the irrepressible hotelier from operating his illegal ferry system.
T.e spectacle Butch Brewster beheld was indeed one to paralyze that pachydermic collegian, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., the sunny-souled, irrepressible Senior, danced madly about on the tiger-skin rug in midfloor, evidently laboring under the delusion that he was a lunatical Hottentot at T. Haviland Hicks Senior
I succumbed to an irrepressible urge to burst into song.
What remains is a record company's idea of a grown woman and Carey's irrepressible golden voice.
An amusement park is the perfect locale for a bunch of irrepressible youngsters to have all sorts of adventures.
Out of the strange melange of bawdry and bloodshed would emerge the origins of his irrepressible folk humour.
Freewheeling through such scenery, with the smell of pine intermingling with woodsmoke in the breeze, one feels an irrepressible high.
This shows to what extent Sartre is unaware of his basic disagreement with Marx on the question of violence, especially when he states that "irrepressible violence is man recreating himself," that it is "mad fury" through which "the wretched of the earth" can "become men. A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence
Save for a snide aside by Andrew's 90-year-old "gammy" (the irrepressible Betty White), little is made of Margaret being older than Andrew - a reality reflected in Bullock's own marriage to James, who is five years younger. Undefined
Cyril Shaps, that splendid and irrepressible character actor, David Horovitch and me.
Once the bearded, glaring countenance has registered, its presence is irrepressible.
The irrepressible little duckling is starring in his own story and is more pittery-pattery, skittery-scattery than ever. Archive 2008-11-01
Sayonara Zetsubo-Sensei character Kafuka Fuura has been called her irrepressible optimism. AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
I'm breaking into what John Norton would call my irrepressible levity. Mike Fletcher A Novel
As if all this weren't enough, the irrepressible Rosling is also an accomplished sword-swallower -- a skill he demonstrated at TED2007. TEDTalks: Hans Rosling: The Good News of the Decade?
In the first gush of our sorrow and our indignation because of this atrocity, we waited not for any official prompting to pour forth our grief in tremulous, glowing words of mingled emotion, as the irrepressible bidding of our hearts draped our homes and our sanctuaries in the weeds of a national funeral. A Discourse in Memory of our Late President, Abraham Lincoln
‘We shouldn't have come this far,’ he said quietly, some irrepressible and detestably responsible instinct rising up and taking him by surprise.
She was always full of energy and utterly irrepressible. The Sun
(_As she rises on the last movement of the dance toward ecstasy, the excitement rises with her, expressing itself in short, irrepressible yelps, at the highest point of which a scream from_ The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts
It all came from a sweeping movement, when the irrepressible Scott Hadden and Chris Capaldi combined to devastating effect.
Barcelona's star-studded squad includes the irrepressible Lionel Messi and a sizeable chunk of the all-conquering Spanish national side.
As the cardinal earth sign Capricorn portrays the enduring and irrepressible spirit of nature.
The little blue quills began to tell of coming feathers, his vigorous chirpings betokened plenty of vocal power, and in due time he grew into a young greenfinch of the most irrepressible and enterprising character. Wild Nature Won By Kindness
Byron wrote that "nought so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion;" but this dictum is hardly confirmed in the case of Mr. Bence Jones's assailants, who number among them a minister of religion, as well as the irrepressible grogshop-keeper. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
The super-manoeuvrable dive boat takes us almost underneath two of the Sound's most irrepressible falls, great gushes of icy mountain water crashing down with frightening noise and power.
He abounded in pretexts; he even sometimes brought contributions; he was persistent and penetrating, he was known as the irrepressible Tarrant. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
Songs of profound depth were tinged with an irrepressible air of mischief. Times, Sunday Times
Thirdly, it amused that whimsical element of farce and mischief which was always so irrepressible in him, from the early days when he is said to have nearly damned his own play by appearing on the stage as the high-priest's train-bearer, and burlesquing that august person's solemn gait. Voltaire
All right, " he said to himself, with an irrepressible frown, " let her sleep alone.
Drawing on her incongruous but irrepressible skills as a housewife, she had tatted lengths of batik, draped bolts of brocade, swathed silk, swagged satin, ruched, ruffed, hemmed and hawed.
All right, " he said to himself an irrepressible frown, " let her sleep alone.
Much of Mumbai is polluted, overcrowded and frenetic, yet the city has an aura of magic and irrepressible hope.
You often hear someone described as irrepressible, so why is no one ever called repressible? Archive 2006-07-01
Every one in the neighbourhood knew that "Batushka" (papa), as he was familiarly called, was too prosaical, practical a man to see things ethereal, that he was an irrepressible talker, and that when he could not conveniently find an audience he created one by his own imagination. Russia
Songs of profound depth were tinged with an irrepressible air of mischief. Times, Sunday Times
The drowned body that refuses to stay submerged can be taken as a metaphor for the repressed but irrepressible female.
Irrepressible woman takes on repressive system, this time in the form of a free-spirited art professor taking on the McCarthy era.
Debarred from ordinary amusements or occupations, the irrepressible need of expression effervesced in rhymes as rugged and unlovely as the writers, and ream upon ream of verse accumulated. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out -- in irrepressible complaints (Ps 42: 4; Jos 7: 5). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
I succumbed to an irrepressible urge to burst into song.
And indeed, a dancing conductor is just the kind of irrepressible energy that this production needs. Times, Sunday Times
One recalls the irrepressible Hyman Kaplan, who explained to his night-school class that the "R.S.V.P." he'd tacked onto his composition meant "Reply, vill you plizz? VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
Irresistible and irrepressible, Warne had stolen the stage.
It is an art of the body, of corpulence and skinniness, flatulence and dropsy, of comic priggishness and irrepressible lust. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
With its dilated eyes under raised eyebrows, it expresses irrepressible terror.
It is as an irrepressible science geek that his moment in the spotlight has come. Times, Sunday Times
As such, while clearly aspiring to the archness and oblique melodies of early Pavement, Mazes have unwittingly become a facsimile of the Wannadies, the amiable and irrepressible Swedish indie pop success story of the mid-90s. This week's new live music

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