Sentence examples similar to was beyond retrieval from inspiring English sources
But Lorey, a retired chemist who worked at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in nearby Dahlgren, knew the ashes were beyond retrieval.
The origins of the OCD, for instance, are beyond retrieval, lost in a childhood that could be recalled only by long-dead parents and grandparents.
No one else knew you from the moment of birth, and anything from the name of the family spaniel to the identities of the people in that faded photo may be beyond retrieval.
How different all this was from the situation before 500 is beyond retrieval, but the continuity of civic structures and cults in eastern Greek states from the Archaic period to Classical times implies that in many respects the Persian takeover of 546 was not cataclysmic.
The erasures are beyond retrieval because the surface of the parchment has been so thoroughly erased--scraped away--that the original is no longer visible.
Freedom was beyond imagining.
