Label, epic, rare, potentially unique

Usage examples of irreplaceable.

And from what Fermi said, every gadget here had to be treated as irreplaceable.

He had to lose what was royal in his life of poverty, the irreplaceable riches that he so greatly and gluttonously enjoyed, to earn a little bit of money that would not buy one-millionth of those treasures.

There are over two million volumes in the New York Public Library, Morant tells us, including hundreds of irreplaceable first editions.

It is the rustiest of cliches to say, upon the death of most people, that they were irreplaceable.

Mahnmut hesitated a moment, but then slipped the irreplaceable book of sonnets into his backpack, trotted to the mid-deck, and joined in the lashing down of the lowered lateen sail.

Once he had accidentally broken a crystal chessman, one of the handsome horsemen he loved to play with as he imagined himself among their number, and although the piece was irreplaceable, she had merely ordered a matching piece carved out of wood and had said no more about the incident.

Consequently, in this season's budgetary panic, Preservation 2000 could be jeopardizedand with it, hundreds of thousands of acres of irreplaceable wilderness.

Irreplaceable treasure indeed: two hammers, three chisels, his awl and his axe, a shovel blade, a spokeshave, a plane, a kettle, a longhandled metal spoon, firetongs, the cowhides that had been stretched across the bed-frames, a furl of cloth that still showed rusty bloodstains… “We couldn’t carry it all,” Orta had explained.

There, where the state ceaseth there only commenceth the man who is not superfluous: there commenceth the song of the necessary ones, the single and irreplaceable melody.

He knew that even in his own mountains victory over the invaders might well be a narrow, chancy business, and so he husbanded his fighters, seeing clearly that utter folly of frittering away irreplaceable strength in pointless harassment.

But you who worry so much about our precious genetic heritage and our irreplaceable instruments of embryo nurture might stop and think a little about the logic of risking one of the two people on board who have a thorough understanding of how to operate our gene bank.

He kept on needling me with what he called the unfor givable crime of the chance seers, which makes us focus our irreplaceable energy on something that has no power whatsoever to do anything.

For thousands of years this people has defended this irreplaceable treasury and its temple with little more than their hustle and bustle and their bladders.

We've lost irreplaceable Masters and promising journeymen in every Craft.

These irreplaceable texts - bound like thin, small accordions and known as codices - 'contained nothing in which there was not to be seen superstitions and lies of the devil,' Landa reported to his superiors.