Example sentences for: perpetual

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

  • The economy was dead, the budget was in perpetual crisis, and crime was shooting through the roof.

  • "A perpetual debate goes on about how much of the real South is left," Peter Applebome observes near the start of his own Southern tour.

  • Actually, it's tempting to say that the state of perpetual turmoil that characterizes advertising today has characterized the industry since the modern era of advertising began sometime in the early 1920s.

  • Although the sacred structures represent the ultimate focus of the Shinto religion, they are dismantled and renewed every 20 years — one of the most explicit manifestations of the traditional Japanese belief in transience and perpetual renewal.

  • Poor Hick, bereft of career, living in a perpetual state of low-intensity jiltedness ("Miss you so much," runs the typical Eleanor letter, "but you'd hate it here so don't come "), traveling the barrooms of the country as Eleanor's eyes and ears, remains for me the hero of the book.


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