inexorably

What it means

1. In an inexorable manner; without the possibility of stopping or prevention.

   We watched as the storm clouds advanced inexorably closer to us.

   5 more examples

   One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!

   1958 February 28, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87

   The strange group of villagers shuffled inexorably forward.

   2000, Mark Gatiss, chapter 27, in Last of the Gaderene

   While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.

   2003, Matrix Reloaded, The Architect

   Later, they all felt guilty about having laughed, especially when it looked as if she might not be able to walk again. But she did, eventually—implacably, inexorably—with a slight limp, perhaps, although this was barely noticeable, not noticeable at all, really, unless you knew the story, unless you were watching for it.

   2007, Scott Smith, The Ruins, page 136

   The fact that the juggernaut of Indian English rolls inexorably on, largely unconcerned by the academic arguments taking place about it, is in itself an indicator of an endonormative force in the variety, and this can be traced historically.

   2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 114

   Synonyms: relentlessly, unrelentingly

In a sentence

We watched as the storm clouds advanced inexorably closer to us.

Where it comes from

From inexorable + -ly.