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Meanings of irresistible force in English

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Usage of irresistible force in English
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Then in silence a log shifted-insilence and slowly-butwith irresistible force.
The Blazed Trail
2
She saw his concern, and his hunger, and some unnamable, irresistible force.
The Valley of Horses
3
Momentum often provides an irresistible force in sport that galvanises a team.
The Irish Times
4
Gaspar Ruiz had pushed his way to the window with irresistible force.
A Set of Six
5
And now here was reality arising with irresistible force and confirming everything.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5
6
Yet it is a movement that sweeps on with almost irresistible force.
The Psychology of Nations / A Contribution to the Philosophy of ...
7
And each year an irresistible force takes me back to Pont Labbe.
Original Short Stories — Volume 10
8
A desire for laughter claimed me with sudden, all but irresistible force.
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
9
Another breaker came, with irresistible force, and all within its sweep disappeared.
Diary in America, Series Two
10
It was a variation of the irresistible force and the immovable object.
Nothing in her way
11
Should I not cast from me, with irresistible force, such atrocious imputations?
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
12
Against Leicester the midfielder drove the side supremely as a near- irresistible force.
The Guardian
13
The irresistible force had met the immovable obstacle-andthe force capitulated.
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive...
14
Her own body betrayed her, its need for the unicorn an irresistible force.
The Black Unicorn
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She had again felt with an irresistible force the magnetic attraction of death.
Cosmopolis — Volume 4
16
She felt an almost irresistible force urging her toward the kaldane.
The Chessmen of Mars
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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