How to Use eventual in a Sentence

eventual

adjective
  • The eventual result will be the same: Fires too big to put out.
    Thomas Hoenig, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
  • What must the eventual starter demonstrate in order to earn the job?
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The ones who stick around will share in your eventual success.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • At the time, that eventual Volunteers road win helped put them on the map.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
  • This will be the eventual fate of our own sun, and solar system.
    Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • That ended when the New York Yankees chased him in the third inning of an eventual 10-7 loss to the Yankees.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 May 2023
  • Nor does there seem to be much progress in planning for an eventual handoff of the Baikonur project to Kazakhstan.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The song climbed to No. 4 the prior month, becoming P!nk’s first career top five hit (of an eventual eight to date).
    Xander Zellner, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2023
  • If the Senate gets 60 votes to break a filibuster, the bill is on a glidepath to eventual passage.
    Chad Pergram, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • However, the club fell 2-1 to the eventual champions and her new club Gotham FC.
    James Weber, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Tillman followed orders and sat out the rest of a 66-14 win en route to an eventual CCS title.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The eventual reveal of what Harry’s project is pretty much says it all.
    Will Harris, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Tambe, the eventual 3A state singles champion, jumped out to a 2-0 lead and had three break points on Selvan to increase the lead.
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
  • In the meantime, the lender uses the car as collateral to secure the loan until the eventual payoff.
    Ashley Donohoe, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2023
  • O’Connor sang from a young age, forming the band Ton Ton Macoute in her teens, which led to her eventual solo career.
    Vulture, 26 July 2023
  • To me, these are details that need to be shared—and not just as a dramatic prelude to the eventual happy ending.
    Ron Shaich, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In Game 4, his wrist shot from the left circle on a feed from Rodrigues was the first of three unanswered goals in Florida’s eventual 3-2 win.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 May 2024
  • Dempster’s eventual successor will have quite a bit of work to do.
    Max Greenwood, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But at the same time, that would be letting the Ottos, the Aegons, the Cristons, the Aemonds, off easy—we're going to enjoy seeing their eventual demise.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The seven justices in the state Supreme Court concurred with all or part of its ruling, though they were split on how and why the eventual conclusion was made.
    Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Michallas came around from second to score the eventual winning run.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 13 May 2023
  • At the time, the eventual triumph over slavery was anything but certain.
    TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
  • This becomes critical with eventual demise of gas sales and tax.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the big ones were the description of the camp and its layout, the train route characters took, and the number Sokolov tattooed onto his eventual wife’s arm.
    Amber Dowling, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • In 2008, a weeks-long writers strike ended soon after a DGA deal laid the groundwork for the writers’ eventual agreement.
    Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • Six players return from the roster that was ousted by the eventual champion Newton North last year, and the Red Hawks are off to a 2-0 start.
    Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Quite frankly, Booth’s eventual demise by the show’s finale is a relief from the constant rants and self-aggrandizing.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In contrast, Lagerfeld is first seen through the eyes of his eventual life companion Jacques de Bascher at a club.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 17 July 2024
  • This group is the most likely of the ETFs to be deeply affected by a lack of future interest rate cuts and the possibility of eventual higher rates.
    John Navin, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Emigration through trafficking is lined up for one of the film’s leads, though an ominous, abstract prologue sets a doom-laden tone for the eventual trip not going to plan.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025

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