Example sentences for: permanence

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

  • Maintained consciousness is accepted by modern authors as necessary to the definition, but nothing is said here of the cerebral origin of dementia, its organic nature, or its degree of permanence.

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

  • Hence the despairing talk about "the permanence of racism," "the myth of black progress," and "the coming race war."

  • 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.


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