EVENTUALLY in a Sentence

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135 example sentences for EVENTUALLY, such as:

1. Shortages eventually led to food riots.
2. Keep trying and you'll find a job eventually.
3. He worked so hard that eventually he made himself ill.
4. He eventually escaped and made his way back to England.
5. The new design will eventually replace all existing models.

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 Meanings and Examples of EVENTUALLY
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eventually
 ad.  ultimately; in the final result or issue; in the end
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  And for six months he should work at farming, so that eventually he and Connie could have some small farm of their own, into which he could put his energy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
2  The grief had been there so shortly as to have abstracted nothing of the bloom, and had as yet but given a dignity to what it might eventually undermine.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
3  The alarm, however, was given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was eventually recovered.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
4  In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
5  The door had eventually to be opened by a locksmith from Aldershot.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
6  While there she had met a young man named Harold Latimer, who had acquired an ascendancy over her and had eventually persuaded her to fly with him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
7  Dark rumours gathered round him in the university town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and to come down to London, where he set up as an Army coach.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
8  Oh, yes, thought Scarlett, drearily, some widows do remarry eventually, when they are old and stringy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  No one except the doting father could see anything beautiful about her, but the neighbors were charitable enough to say that all ugly babies turned out pretty, eventually.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  Scarlett was annoyed at the weight he attached to Bonnie's night terrors but she thought she could eventually remedy the state of affairs and transfer the child back to the nursery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
11  For, as it eventually turned out, he cared not to consort, even for five minutes, with any stranger captain, except he could contribute some of that information he so absorbingly sought.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
12  I knew it was homesickness that had killed Mr. Shimerda, and I wondered whether his released spirit would not eventually find its way back to his own country.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
13  Cutter was tormented by the fear that Mrs. Cutter would live longer than he, and that eventually her 'people,' whom he had always hated so violently, would inherit.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
14  All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which is almost indescribable.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
15  He was one of those who think that science will eventually turn the position.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Example Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
16  The couple eventually wed after an eighteen year engagement.
17  The new design will eventually replace all existing models.
18  The threat of global warming will eventually force the US to slow down its energy consumption.
19  The five survivors eventually reached safety, ragged, half-starved and exhausted.
20  The hijackers eventually surrendered themselves to the police.
21  The club eventually capitulated and now grants equal rights to women.
22  He worked so hard that eventually he made himself ill.
23  He eventually escaped and made his way back to England.
24  When he eventually overtook the last truck he pulled over to the inside lane.
25  Keep trying and you'll find a job eventually.
26  An autopsy eventually ascribed the baby's death to sudden infant death syndrome.
27  When they eventually leave the school they will be totally ill-equipped to deal with the real world.
28  Shortages eventually led to food riots.
29  Gambling became an obsession , and he eventually lost everything.
30  The hospital had virtually given her up for dead, but she eventually recovered.