How to Use eon in a Sentence

eon

noun

• In that sense, the game felt eons away from where this program was a year ago.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2018
• For eons, the regular movements of the sun and moon have set the pace for all of life on Earth.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
• Water is in constant flux, while salt takes eons to move from place to place.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024
• From a numbers standpoint, the region has its best chance in eons to end that drought.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
• Flu vaccine has a clear advantage, thanks to the fact it’s been around for eons.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Jan. 2024
• Doesn't this look like a panel that's going to play but street rules, com eon.
  — Fox News, 28 June 2018
• For eons, men and women have searched for plants or foods that could turn on desire.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
• June, in the present, is eons away from handmaid’s training camp and from her mother.
  — refinery29.com, 2 May 2018
• Don’t be tempted to dump it straight into a pot on the stove (or worse, microwave it for eons).
  — Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2023
• Despite the fancy name, this has been going on for eons.
  — Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 18 May 2024
• Like Ayón, Black women and men around the world have used art as protest and reclamation for eons.
  — Marjua Estevez, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2023
• The burst had gone off in the heart of an ancient galaxy where star births and deaths (in the form of supernovas) had ceased eons ago.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• In fact, snakes are just one of more than 30 groups of lizards that each evolved away their legs separately over the eons.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2024
• The days of record store browsing are eons gone; even the era of blogs being able to break an artist are solidly in the early aughts rearview.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Nov. 2019
• The eon that followed, the Phanerozoic, is still going strong today.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2019
• For the nation’s most eminent programs, such a shard of time is like an eon.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2016
• Are these 80-odd tools, eons more ancient than the ancient world, indeed art works?
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• For eons, the river was a wild, unpredictable force that shaped this landscape.
  — Janet Wilson, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2023
• That’s an eon in the fast-moving gadget world, and much has changed since Apple first revealed the device.
  — Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 6 Feb. 2018
• Ten miles across and 3,500 feet deep, it’s been carved out over eons by lava flows and water pouring down from the summit of Wai'ale'ale.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2018
• With each brushstroke, grain by grain, they are transported back through the eons, as a distant lizard roars.
  — Mark Washburn, charlotteobserver, 25 May 2018
• To visit Antarctica is to encounter forces that have shaped the fortunes of baleen whales across eons.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• The Kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids who have been battling with the Kraken for eons.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• As sawgrass dies, the peat built up over eons starts to collapse, lowering the ground level.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 12 Feb. 2018
• Over eons, plant and animal remains (not to mention hominins) have been found in the caves.
  — Lydia Pyne, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
• Mark Kelly A week can feel like an eon in Washington, while six months passes in a flash.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 1 June 2023
• For eons, the coin-size yellow toads led a charmed and secret life in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
• That this has been continuing for eons is made loud and clear here, perhaps more than anywhere else in the world.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 21 Aug. 2023
• The focus on oils isn’t exactly new; they’ve been praised and debated for eons.
  — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
• Fewer still make it through the eons in particularly good shape.
  — Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024