Example sentences for: timeless

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

  • "As timeless as its bad-boy-meets-good-girl plot" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). Most reviewers celebrate the career of its star John Travolta, then 23: "an invaluable cultural icon ...

  • So why is he timeless, while Self's sendups of PC already seem dated, as if he'd jotted them down in a fit of childish pique in 1991?

  • Yiddish is especially versatile in describing those poor souls who inhabit the world of the ineffectual, and each is assigned a distinct place in the gallery of pathetic types: schmo, schmendrik, schnook, schmegegge, schlep, schlub, schmuck, putz, klutz, kvetch , and nudnik . Yiddish easily coins new names for new personalities: a nudnik is a `pest'; a phudnik is a `nudnik with a Ph.D.' The rich nuances that suffuse this roll call are seen in the timeless distinction between a schlemiel `clumsy jerk' and a schlimazel `habitual loser': the schlemiel inevitably trips and spills his hot soup—all over the schlimazel.

  • But Wolf builds it up into a timeless international archetype.

  • For, alongside Cézanne's timeless forms in subtle harmony, another modern still-life tradition has flourished, more in tune with pop culture, advertising, and the disposable culture of the 20 th century.


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