Sentence examples for irretrievable decline from inspiring English sources

It is, in short, perfectly at one in spirit with Venice itself, that sometime great empire which, when this painting was being made, was in a condition of irretrievable decline, and would finally fall to the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte about 40 years after the work was finished.

But even the events of 1071 had not made the decline of Byzantium irretrievable.

It's time to stop trying to save an institution that's been in decline for so long it's irretrievable.

Once copper beeches begin to decline, usually at about a century, they are almost irretrievable.

There is increasing recognition that our best chance of maintaining brain function may be to offer therapies as early as possible, when the minimum of irretrievable neuronal loss has occurred, and when there is potential to prevent or delay the onset of cognitive decline [ 5].

An irretrievable scenario?

Intiman looked irretrievable.

The rest was irretrievable.

Oleg, of course, irretrievable.

Bygone Berlin was irretrievable.

The past, ultimately, is irretrievable.