Example sentences for: permanence

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

  • If this current attraction were to blossom into a relationship, I could foresee some happy and soul-supportive times--but not permanence.

  • By the way, since she exited a long-term relationship just before she joined our company, I suspect she's not interested in permanence either.

  • The Word-Cross, as it was called, started its existence as just another little Sunday supplement feature, with no pretensions to permanence.

  • By a not-so-strange coincidence, this conflict is prominent in lots of recent movies, among them A Walk on the Moon , Metroland , and Among Giants , which explore the natural impulse to settle down vs. the equally natural impulse to be wild and free--the yearning for permanence vs. the claustrophobic dread of monogamy.

  • Unlike Christianity’s massive gothic cathedrals, designed to convey a strong sense of permanence, this austere wooden structure is dismantled every 20 years and replaced by a new one.


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