ETERNAL in a Sentence

Learn ETERNAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

151 example sentences for ETERNAL, such as:

1. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
2. To her eternal credit, she gave them a home.
3. Some people, need deep and eternal remember.
4. The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth.
5. Honesty and diligence should be your eternal mates.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of ETERNAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
eternal
 a.  forever; being without beginning or end; existing outside of time; infinite
Classic Sentence: (125 in 9 pages)
1  The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  To Gopher Prairie the tracks were eternal verities, and boards of railroad directors an omnipotence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  She prayed to Jesus, always to the Son of God, offering him the terrible power of her adoration, addressing him as the eternal lover, growing passionate, exalted, large, as she contemplated his splendor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Beyond the court stretched the eternal stubble-fields.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Tragedy in neat blouses; the eternal flame all nice and safe in a kerosene stove.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  There they were, the furnace sounds, unalterable, eternal: removing ashes, shoveling coal.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
8  Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
9  Lifted by those eternal swells, you needs must own the seductive god, bowing your head to Pan.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 111. The Pacific.
10  Then hail, for ever hail, O sea, in whose eternal tossings the wild fowl finds his only rest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale.
11  The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  Of late, however, he had been impressed that they were in a sort of eternal camp.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  As he walked along in careless line he was engaged with his own eternal debate.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  Now, I'd like to know what the eternal thunders we was marched into these woods for anyhow, unless it was to give the rebs a regular pot shot at us.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  He turned now with a lover's thirst to images of tranquil skies, fresh meadows, cool brooks--an existence of soft and eternal peace.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
2  Honesty and diligence should be your eternal mates.
3  Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
4  To her eternal credit, she gave them a home.
5  Some people, need deep and eternal remember.
6  The carousel is the most brutal game, but have eternal chase each other distance.
7  The company is engaged in the eternal search for a product that will lead the market.
8  The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
9  Newspapers are simply responding to the eternal fascination of their readers with the private lives of the rich and famous.
10  Every sin has two punishments attached to it, one called the eternal and the other the temporal.
11  Life everlasting, or eternal life, is believed to be a gift from God as a result of having faith in Jesus Christ.
12  Foolish men mistake transitory semblance for eternal fact.
13  The apotheosis of a Roman emperor was designed to insure his eternal greatness: people would worship at his altar forever.
14  The earmarks of such a religion are: faith in a supreme deity, hope of eternal survival, and love, especially of one's fellows.
15  By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a messenger from the eternal throne -- between a guide and a seducer?