How to Use infinite in a Sentence

infinite

1 of 2 adjective
  • She has infinite patience when she's dealing with children.
  • There seemed to be an infinite number of possibilities.
  • Love comes in an infinite number of forms and shapes and sizes.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The seas are not infinite, nor are their ecosystems quick to evolve.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Chong makes a strong case for hope that the way out of our infinite loops resides within.
    Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Yes, there are infinite ways to toast bread: a skillet, a broiler, a grill.
    Emma Laperruque, Bon Appétit, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Like fishing rods and reels, there are an infinite number of knives to choose from.
    Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In a world of infinite media, the successful art work makes its way to others, morphs, moves on.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Two kids are trapped in an infinite time loop by a witch (Krysten Ritter).
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The dots represent something that has no points, no hard edges and is infinite.
    Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But how can an infinite number of curving paths add up to a single straight line?
    Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Join the infinite customers who love Spanx for being soft, flattering, and easy to care for.
    Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2024
  • But the resources that are usable and valuable to us within our reach are not infinite.
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The wall’s surface is rendered with infinite care, its nails and holes painted in sharp relief.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • There are infinite variations: ebony, charcoal, jet, licorice—the list goes on.
    Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The love between two people is like an infinite loop; no beginning and no end.
    Alexandra Schneider, Seventeen, 22 June 2023
  • In this hunt, the world of vintage cookie jars offers near infinite options.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 5 Apr. 2023
  • With infinite room to play on the spectrum, the stars had a field day, combining oft-gendered clothing in compelling new ways.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2024
  • This universe consists of an infinite grid of squares that can be alive or dead and that, at each time step, can flip from one state to the other according to the states of the squares around it.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • There are an infinite number of ways to enjoy a bagel — toasted, untoasted, open-faced, as a sandwich, with eggs — the list goes on and on.
    Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
  • These are a welcome change-up to the Stan Smiths that still offer the same infinite styling possibilities.
    Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 11 July 2023
  • There is infinite room for nostalgia to enter the equation from the U.S. thinking of El Salvador.
    Javier Zamora, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • In the multiverse, our universe is not the first bubble to arise, but merely one of an infinite chain of universes.
    Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Nourish your pets by grabbing slices from an infinite omelet.
    Leo Sands, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • Those rugs are foreign objects on a sandy beach, providing a boundary for their movement, which takes place in front of the infinite backdrop of the coastal sky.
    Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Darn Tough’s socks live up to their name and will see you through a nearly infinite number of hikes and chilly plane rides, with the perfect amount of cushion and elasticity.
    Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Today the big businesses of self-care and self-indulgence fill the infinite space of the digital kingdom.
    Dominic Green, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The travel industry sells the Caribbean as a gentle paradise where the workers of the first world can escape to rest at last on the shores of an infinite resort.
    Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Vinil do Mustafa is a cozy record shop to plunge into the seemingly infinite universe of Brazilian music.
    Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The format is predictable, yet the variety of treatments seems infinite.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
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infinite

2 of 2 noun
  • The challenge was to find ways of bounding the infinite.
    New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Eubanks, at 28-years-old, the oldest player in the league, doesn’t have infinite tries left.
    Sean Collins, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Praise the infinite, nameless tellers of tales swaying from the poplar’s limbs.
    Michael Palmer, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • Their microbe silk fibers have not been able to compete with polyester’s cost, strength, and near-infinite supply.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 28 June 2021
  • Both cemeteries perch above the Mediterranean, their tombs and mausoleums white and gold in the sun, stretched before them the infinite, ever-changing ocean, and above, the vast, eternal sky.
    Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
    Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022
  • Stare overhead, and the color seems to go on forever, conjuring notions of the infinite.
    Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The infinite is embodied by a circle or a mirror in three striking entries.
    Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • Halloween Town is a mad dream of an infinite Oct. 31, a freaky-sweet ghoul society where Frankenladies and skullguys can fall in wonderful wuv.
    Darren Franich and Devan Coggan, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Its near-infinite scroll of products can veer into the surreal, at prices that seem impossibly low.
    John Herrman, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
  • One case taken up by Friedman and Stanley concerned a family of graphs, each with an infinite — though countable — number of vertices.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Instead of a wraith, scribbling on scraps, this Dickinson was meticulously constructing her legacy through poems that stowed away the infinite in the small.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The relationship between dimensions is key to calculus, as is the relationship from the finite to the infinite.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Many of the components are or can be cloud-based, supporting high agility and near-infinite scalability.
    Tim Liu, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • California is the infinite, a place where vision can become reality and there’s always a blank page that needs filling.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Go is an ancient Chinese board game that’s elegantly simple, yet wickedly difficult to master because of the near-infinite number of legal moves on the board’s 19-by-19 grid.
    Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
  • Both companies make classic Dutch ovens that have a near-infinite lifespan and are often handed down through generations.
    Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Well, by tapping into all the infinite Evelyns out there, of course, and doing battle with a mysterious, cross-dimensional warlord.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2022
  • For Anaximander, the Earth and the heavens and all material things were caused by the infinite, although infinity itself was not a material substance.
    Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
  • If your numbers are plentiful enough to make this sum infinite, Erdős conjectured that your list should contain infinitely many arithmetic progressions of every finite length — triples, quadruples and so forth.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The game's default modes save progress between levels, and the optional infinite-lives option is certainly appreciated.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 21 June 2022
  • People have recursion, which is the ability to make combinations indefinitely, in part because of a capacity to conceive of the infinite, Dr. Chomsky said.
    Dominique Mosbergen, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Because of the mind-bending way in which gravity alters the geometry of space in Einstein’s theory, there could conceivably be multiple universes, each infinite in extent.
    Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Considering the near-infinite differences in political views, family dynamics and child psychology, there is not a one-size-fits-all way to help your children make sense of political life.
    Elissa Strauss, CNN, 30 Oct. 2020
  • To study number theory and, specifically, continued fractions, requires being willing to embrace the infinite, says Havens.
    Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The scene exposes how insidiously childhood logic twists events into a kind of poisonous pretzel, infinite and self-perpetuating.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Themes begin to emerge for the viewer who discovers duality, blurred borders and materiality recycled into the infinite.
    John Zotos, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • In contrast to the infinite, neatly ordered networks that mathematicians have traditionally studied, networks derived from real examples are finite in extent and messy.
    Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The series of conditions that would avoid an infinite, well, suckage past dual event horizons involves an escalating series of impossibilities based on the idea that general relativity basically doesn’t apply at all.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2020
  • The challenge was to find ways of bounding the infinite.
    New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022

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