How to Use immemorial in a Sentence

immemorial

adjective
  • What made the Gulf War and the Iraq War different from others in the immemorial annals of human atrociousness?
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Goya knew the problem and let slip the solution, which is to keep in mind that there is no solution, only an immemorial question: Now what?
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The first day of class has an immemorial feel to it, an air of familiar routines eternally renewed.
    Carlo Rotella, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Those two monuments were made to feel as immemorial as if they had been created by plate tectonics.
    Elizabeth Alexander, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The history of open memorials is perhaps best seen in spontaneous gestures of grief that are immemorial.
    Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Without thinking, Noonan raised two fingers from the steering wheel in that immemorial gesture of laconic country salute.
    Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The chapters, named after months in the Ethiopian calendar and suffused with an awe for the landscape, direct our attention to the immemorial, recurring rhythms of earth and sky: of rain, sowing and harvest, of weddings, births and funerals.
    Gaiutra Bahadur, New York Times, 10 May 2018
  • The welfare state, properly understood by Friedrich Hayek and others, is an effort to continue in modern conditions the immemorial practice of taking care of those who are poor, disabled, or in distress.
    Christopher Demuth Sr., National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
  • To the surprise of some — me, for one — there was much in the collections created during lockdown that was frankly celebratory and that used 21st-century tools to connect with deep humanist urges and immemorial techniques.
    New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The other produces an atmosphere of sacred, immemorial calm.
    Washington Post, 2 June 2021
  • Akhnaten is remarkable in its depiction of the Egyptian ruler’s piety, its immemorial-sounding rhythms, and its visual composition of illumination and acrobatics.
    Mary Spencer, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Aside from the immemorial wonders, Shiraz provided other, less monumental features.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022

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