How to Use ad infinitum in a Sentence

ad infinitum

adverb or adjective
  • And repeat, ad infinitum, until the peas are white as stones.
    Emiene Wright, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • And then the algorithm predicts the next word, and the next word, and the next word, ad infinitum.
    IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That starts the full circle over and over again, ad infinitum.
    Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • And there could be a third layer below that, and a fourth, ad infinitum.
    David Roberts, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
  • But the sunset is a ruse, since Democrats plan to renew the child allowance ad infinitum.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
  • One was Alan Freed, the impresario who helped make the song a hit by spinning it ad infinitum on the radio.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • That means hard drives, cables ad infinitum, dongles, and the helmets, which the guys insist must be in their sights at all times.
    Dani Deahl, The Verge, 13 July 2018
  • Brown fails and dies so that others may fail and die after him—perhaps ad infinitum.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Instead, remote workers do their work, and do their work, and do their work, ad infinitum.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Those supporting tankers in turn would need their own escorts, which would need their own tankers, ad infinitum.
    David Axe, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The brain's natural tendency is to go around and around, ad infinitum.
    Chris Taylor, Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
  • So why won’t this sideways range in prices continue ad infinitum?
    Simon Constable, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • And, of course, there are those who try to cure us of aging, so that our bodies and minds will cease to deteriorate and our life spans will increase ad infinitum.
    Maria Konnikova, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • This cycle can be repeated over and over, ad infinitum.
    Wired, 18 July 2022
  • The play that resulted, a 41-yard masterpiece down the left sideline, will be shown in Tuscaloosa and Tuscumbia and all over Alabama ad infinitum.
    Barry Svrluga, Houston Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
  • David Bui, another friend, took 45 minutes to make a website, which showed the emoji bouncing around ad infinitum.
    Arielle Pardes, Wired, 29 June 2020
  • Ample endowments are there to be used for the benefit of students, not simply to grow ad infinitum.
    Robert Litan, The New Republic, 20 July 2021
  • And does the season have to feel like an inexorable march toward Clemson-Bama, ad infinitum?
    George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The road not taken, thanking your lucky stars, being so intimate with someone who’s now dead, ad infinitum.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • One collision would mean more space junk, which would collide with other objects and create even more space junk, ad infinitum.
    David Palmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Picking up objects is as quick as a button press, and comes with pings and plops of audio feedback that have made Nintendo games so pleasant to hear ad infinitum.
    Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The story has been analyzed and argued over ad infinitum, especially in the midst of the 30th anniversary.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In no time, your floor would be covered in shards and the robot would get stuck in a sad, vicious feedback loop, dropping dishes and sweeping them up and dropping more dishes, ad infinitum.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Wimbledon doesn't use tiebreakers in the fifth set for men, or third set for women, so there's nothing to prevent a match from continuing ad infinitum.
    Howard Fendrich, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • If and when the burner account was banned after cheating was detected, the process could be repeated ad infinitum without the need to repurchase the game on a new account.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Yeah, then pay monthly for overpriced albums ad infinitum!
    Storme Warren, Variety, 4 Nov. 2022
  • That's the sound of the entire internet freaking out, ad infinitum, because guess what: Kylie Jenner's pregnancy has just been confirmed.
    Evelyn Wang, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2017
  • In this way, an expanding universe can spawn new universes, one after the other, ad infinitum.
    John Horgan, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
  • But, at least historically, with the bigger rockets, people haven't been willing to sit around ad infinitum to go ad astra.
    Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 6 July 2018
  • These include repetitive remains of genetic parasites that have copied themselves ad infinitum, the corpses of dead and once-useful genes, and more.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2012

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