Example sentences for: permanence

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

  • 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.

  • He now slips in and out of lucidity before his despairing, Italian-born wife, Rezia (Amelia Bullmore); like Clarissa, he is haunted by the lack of permanence in all things.

  • He laments the permanence of racism, which he feels is now deeply entrenched in almost every American institution.

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

  • The universe exists to humiliate Brooks' protagonists, to remind them of the precariousness of everything that they'd smugly assumed was fixed--the steadiness of a job, the permanence of a relationship, the support of a mother, the benign regard of the universe.


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