How to Use inestimable in a Sentence

inestimable

adjective
  • He has made inestimable contributions to our society.
  • Einstein's inestimable contributions to science.
  • The value of just this is inestimable, and the study validated that.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Of course, knowing the language is of inestimable help for foreign travel.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
  • This alone would be of inestimable help to the experts seeking to understand and model the impact of the virus and thus predict its arc going forward.
    — Nicholas Burns, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2020
  • This film has been an uphill battle every step of the way and faced inestimable resistance on every front.
    — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The training a boy gets as a newspaper carrier is of inestimable value to him in after years.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Now is the time for Americans to rediscover the inestimable value of tending to our spirits.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • From the opening notes of the best Broadway overture ever composed, Raybon brings out all the texture of the score with crisp precision, from the driving strings to the full color from the winds and the inestimable foundations of the brass.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • In the case of the Grand Canyon, those global impacts were mostly psychological—the sense that an ancient place of inestimable value would be defiled.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 July 2021
  • But Marvel’s co-opting of indies has incurred an inestimable cost.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • All his successes spring from his inestimable genius; all his failures are the product of sabotage by jealous losers.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • This night will be about the unifying, inestimable, enduring power of music.
    — Jonathan Coleman, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The Appalachian Trail is a point of pride for people there, for people in the midst of losing everything; saying it is destroyed based on no data adds insult to inestimable injury.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But his influence on decades of enduring and deep country music was inestimable.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 23 May 2018
  • Weeks later, the annual hajj was reduced to skeletal proportion to counter the inestimable health risk posed by the five-day religious ceremony.
    — Phillip Morris, National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Odds that confer an inestimable value on human life under any conditions.
    — Michael Nesset, Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
  • To create a library is to multiply this effect hundreds or thousands of times, resulting in something of deeply personal and, hence, inestimable value.
    — Ernest Hilbert, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • That would be an inestimable loss, not least since so many of the small colleges are vigorous outposts of traditional liberal-arts education.
    — Allen C. Guelzo, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • Meyer, 63, formerly a Butler assistant and longtime Liberty head coach, has joined Jordan’s staff in a hire of inestimable value.
    — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2017
  • These cumulative burdens had consumed an inestimable amount of time and energy.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2022
  • Some, like the inestimable Alexandra DeSanctis, are blessed with both speed-reading abilities and comprehension.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Almost as posh as Versailles, its galleries hold inestimable riches, including works by Titian, Gainsborough and Turner.
    — Donna Bulseco, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
  • This brand-new project has been led by our inestimable blog neighbor Carl Zimmer, who has assembled a crack editorial team consisting of some of the world's leading new-media science journalists and also me.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2012
  • On this point, Easter’s engaging yet thorough explanations of how humans alter ecosystems to create food supply chains are of inestimable value.
    — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • By replacing a democracy with a dictatorship, the US did inestimable damage to the country and its own reputation in the world, especially in Central America.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 Dec. 2024
  • That is likely to be an inestimable asset for Biden, who served for eight years as Obama's vice president, in raising money, generating energy and offering advice.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Around a third of its surface area enjoys some sort of conservation status, making Asturias an ecological resource of inestimable value.
    — Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2024
  • An inestimable chunk belongs to American citizens, permanent residents, and others in the United States neither suspected nor accused of any crime.
    — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The Senate vote will do inestimable reputational damage to the Republican party.
    — Doug Badger, National Review, 28 July 2017

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