Example sentences for: lasting

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

  • Nor can good day care be solidly proven to give a dramatic or lasting boost to kids whose home lives are a mess.

  • But in 1526, smuggled copies of Tyndale's heretical translation of the New Testament began appearing in England, to the great consternation of the establishment, including Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, and Sir Thomas More, and to the lasting glory of the English language.

  • In a number of telephone calls, all initiated by Blair and some lasting as long as 30 minutes, she urged him to "stiffen the spine" of the Americans, as she had done when she chided President Bush for going "wobbly" during the Gulf War.

  • La Línea has experienced a mini-boom since the border with Gibraltar was re-opened in 1985 after a blockade lasting 16 years, but is still a dreary place.

  • It can change--you can change it--and it can stay changed, a lasting if not indelible record that you were there.


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