How to Use eventual in a Sentence
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The eventual result will be the same: Fires too big to put out.
—Thomas Hoenig, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
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What must the eventual starter demonstrate in order to earn the job?
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
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Betts hit a three-run home run to left field, putting the Dodgers back in front for good in an eventual 9-6 win.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
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The ones who stick around will share in your eventual success.
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
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At the time, that eventual Volunteers road win helped put them on the map.
—Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
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Now that eventual 12-team Big 12 might be the worst-case scenario.
—Dallas News, 19 July 2022
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This will be the eventual fate of our own sun, and solar system.
—Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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Garner ran for three touchdowns and threw a 5-yard TD pass that proved to be the eventual game-winner.
—al, 24 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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However, the club fell 2-1 to the eventual champions and her new club Gotham FC.
—James Weber, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
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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
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The eventual reveal of what Harry’s project is pretty much says it all.
—Will Harris, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2024
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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
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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
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The lawmakers have a track record of picking the eventual winner.
—Sanya Mansoor, Time, 4 Oct. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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In some cases, friends can even be the ones who introduce us to our eventual partners.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
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Dempster’s eventual successor will have quite a bit of work to do.
—Max Greenwood, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
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Lee lost in the second hole of a playoff to eventual champion Wenyi Ding of China.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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Michallas came around from second to score the eventual winning run.
—Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 13 May 2023
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At the time, the eventual triumph over slavery was anything but certain.
—TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
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The four-time major winner was supportive of the project and even shared his vision of a tournament schedule for the eventual tour.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
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Doubt is further seeded by our eventual realization that Sean’s mother died in childbirth and his father took his own life a few years later.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
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