Example sentences for: eternity

How can you use “eternity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If a mechanical cause produced the universe at time T, there is no reason it should not have done so at time T minus 1. The argument can be repeated to T minus infinity: A mechanical cause would have either produced the universe from eternity or not at all.

  • "It's become a carnival midway of commercial attractions" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ). Critics profess surprise that the festival's top honors go to the controversial Greek director Theo Angelopoulos for his Eternity and a Day , the story of a dying poet.

  • In 1898, under the Convention of Peking, China leased the New Territories and 235 more islands to Britain for what then seemed an eternity — 99 years.

  • 5. Board of directors damned to hell for all eternity.

  • Of Rome’s countless inspirational churches and palazzos, it is the Colosseum — what Byron called “the gladiator’s bloody circus”—that is the symbol of the city’s eternity.


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