How to Use perpetual in a Sentence

perpetual

adjective
  • The region is in a state of perpetual war.
  • He seems to have a perpetual grin on his face.
  • The grinds and kick-flips; the perpetual motion and the empty air around you.
    Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2021
  • To be a woman today in the world is to be in a perpetual state of rage.
    Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Football with a perpetual bead of sweat on the end of your nose.
    Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
  • Most of us have spent the past year in a state of near-perpetual anxiety and stress.
    Virginia Sole-Smith, Good Housekeeping, 16 Apr. 2021
  • It is owned by the town, which provides a perpetual lease to the Little League.
    David Anderson, The Aegis, 16 May 2018
  • The Dolphins are in the third year of their perpetual rebuild.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2021
  • This brings us to the third step — and the reason this entire process is perpetual.
    Daniel Woods, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Not long ago, the Dons were mired in near-perpetual mediocrity.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Clouds linger, but that perpetual leak in the sky above your home will shut off today.
    Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Our first season is all about the perpetual search for the perfect place—that’s right, utopias.
    Kelsey Keith, Curbed, 5 July 2019
  • His perpetual rage led him to beat his first wife, Ida.
    Richard Goldstein, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • To forgive yourself a thousand times a day and live in a perpetual state of grace.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • In the home, a chalk wall can serve as anything from a grocery or to-do list to a child's perpetual blank canvas.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 29 Apr. 2019
  • About fishing for perch and floating in a rowboat in the middle of the bay with a good book and a perpetual sunburn.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Like the mosh pits and dance floors that have thrilled to his music over the years, Skrillex knows that perpetual motion is crucial.
    Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • That peace treaty turned out to be not so perpetual after all.
    Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 20 May 2019
  • Ethics groups have to raise money to keep going, so their need to find blame is perpetual.
    Bruce K. Chapman, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • But don’t expect McCloud to get back on the perpetual loop soon.
    Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • That part of us that stands in protest to the ills of the physical world is, in fact, evidence of our perpetual nature.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2023
  • That one-sided stroke should cause the sperm to swim in a perpetual circle, Gadelha said.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 31 July 2020
  • But, as mentioned, very few are willing to do this at a perpetual loss.
    Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Members of both groups live in a perpetual state of gloating, and of sneering, and of gloating and sneering at the same time.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The torus form and off-center void give a feeling of perpetual motion.
    Nicola Chilton, CNN, 20 June 2022
  • Living in a state of perpetual outrage isn’t good for us.
    Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2018
  • This is the perpetual question that people have been asking in the music business for years and years and years.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 23 Aug. 2018
  • But the Yankees, the perpetual economic antithesis of the A’s, were not here to mourn.
    Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Doubt that this 35-year stretch of perpetual mediocrity will ever end.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The algorithms already do a great job of keeping us captive in a perpetual storm of outrage.
    Arianna Huffington, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024

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