Example sentences for: perennial

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

  • Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians " (Patrick McGrath, New York Times Book Review ). High praise also for Kadare, a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize.

  • It has its perennial favorites: the sister islands of Capri and Ischia in the Bay of Naples, the ruins of Pompeii, and the resorts of the singularly beautiful Amalfi coast.

  • I am certain that there will be plenty of fraud and hucksters--there was a good story in USA Today yesterday on that lovely trend--but that, once again, is another thing that seems to be a human perennial no matter the medium.

  • One of the key impetuses for General Motors' push for vertical integration, for example, was its perennial struggle with Fisher Body, a major supplier who kept holding up GM for price increases.

  • Between France and England ensued tangled marital alliances and military clashes more important to national morale than to resolving their perennial conflict — such as Bouvines (1214), a victory for the French, and Crécy (1346) and Agincourt (1415) for the English.


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