Example sentences for: perpetual

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

  • Before getting into that, I feel compelled to reiterate my perpetual complaint about the prospective users of such books: in order to look something up in a reference book of any kind—dictionary, thesaurus, usage book, encyclopedia—a person must either acknowledge that he does not know something or, at least, have doubts about the information he already possesses.

  • But it added that Germany remains exposed to "the perpetual and human temptation of nationalism" and has a duty to join in the commemoration.

  • News Quiz participants found common ground in their loathing for professional scold William Bennett--his perpetual disapproval, his sanctimonious speechifying, his humorless yelping, the way the sunlight turns his hair into an auburn cascade, the kooky little songs he sings in the shower, his tousled amorous look first thing in the morning, the way his knowing hands, so strong yet so gentle ...

  • McColl's insistence that the new bank's headquarters are in perpetual motion, swirling around him, didn't satisfy many natives, who wondered why one of the deal's few specific stipulations was moving HQ out of San Francisco.

  • This "ornamental culture" is like a perpetual twilight of adolescence; it is a thwarted adulthood.


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