How to Use eternity in a Sentence

eternity

noun

• They believed that sinners would spend eternity in hell.
• We suffered through an eternity of delays during the lawsuit.
• At the end of the fourth hour, the two will drive off into that tunnel in Paris and on to eternity.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• You’ve been told as much for eternity, or since third grade.
  — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
• The first three weeks must feel like an eternity for Conner.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2022
• That’s an eternity in baseball for a deficit like that.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2023
• These days, four years is an eternity for a college coach to strut his stuff.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2022
• That’s why the gleaming black mountain walls rise to a mighty temple where the sounds of eternity can freely roar.
  — WSJ, 17 June 2022
• The endless expanse of ocean conjures up the idea of eternity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• That way, the color can’t fade, preserving the print for all of eternity.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2023
• As long as one person will be alive to tell the story, it will be kept alive for eternity.
  — William A. Virchis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• The call will be the subject of Philadelphians’ ire for eternity.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• Harold understood the truth of eternity that his Catholic faith taught him.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 25 Dec. 2023
• To this team of young fossil hunters, each day of waiting feels like an eternity.
  — Paul Sereno, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
• Bogle stood at the free-throw line for what seemed like eternity after things got sorted out.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
• This is true in time and—far more important—true in eternity.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• The steely gaze of the model who crosses her arms over her breasts with each change of dress: her fragility counts, her eternity.
  — Concita De Gregorio, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
• And that guarantees it a spot in the annals of pop culture for eternity.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 27 May 2023
• The person who texted me will stare at their phone, waiting for a response, for an eternity.
  — Rima Parikh, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
• After what seemed like an eternity, there was enough of a lull in the shooting for Perry to emerge from his hiding place and open the door.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2022
• Was Freddie Freeman banished to life in a dungeon, to roam the desert alone for eternity?
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
• One stand-out product is the eternity arrangement, which can last up to two years.
  — Essence, 5 Sep. 2022
• Justin had just spent what felt like an eternity trying to breathe life back into him.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 4 Jan. 2024
• The Padres have chased, raced, hunted, pursued, hounded, tracked and trailed their would-be rivals to the north for what seems like an eternity.
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• For others, however, the wait was forced, and seemed like an eternity.
  — Karen Brooks Harper, San Antonio Express-News, 11 July 2022
• At the very end of the Thirteenth, Nelsons held the hall in a pristine, capacious silence that seemed to last an eternity.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• Might the cosmos evolve in a cycle of expansion and collapse, over and over for all eternity?
  — James Riordon, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
• But with these eternity roses from Venus ET Fleur, this gorgeous bouquet will last up to a year or longer.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2023
• Full recovery can take anywhere from nine months to more than a year—an eternity in the short life of an élite athlete.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• But the certainty of death, rather than the hubris of assumed eternity, was the salient cosmic feeling of the 1990s internet.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024