Example sentences for: lasting

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

  • The exhibition tells us that as a vessel of lasting sense or sacred truth, the written word may be losing ground, but that as a source of inarticulate comfort, it has gained much.

  • Palestinian scholar Edward Said argues that a single Israeli-Palestinian state is the only lasting Middle East solution.

  • In the New Republic , Eliot A. Cohen counsels making "ousting Saddam a top priority," and pursuing that objective with airstrikes that "number in the thousands, not hundreds" and lasting over "weeks, not days."

  • The LAT cites as his principal accomplishments, a downtown building boom, the 1984 Olympics success, creating coalitions between blacks and Jews and labor and management, with an accompanying racial peace lasting most of his tenure, and establishing civilian control over the LAPD.

  • In 1997, Rosenbaum published an Esquire cover story lauding Salinger's self-imposed Wall of Silence as "his most powerful, his most eloquent, perhaps his most lasting work of art."


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