How to Use sooner or later in a Sentence

sooner or later

adverb

• He was bound to have a flop sooner or later, though, and the C5 was a huge one.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2017
• The feast will end sooner or later, but for now, the oven’s still hot.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
• And sooner or later, the people of Iran will do the right thing.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
• Even so, sooner or later, the war will end in a cease-fire or armistice.
  — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• The Mavs will figure this stuff out on the floor sooner or later.
  — Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2023
• But the powers that be will have to speak on it sooner or later.
  — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2021
• But sooner or later, Barkley will break one and flip this game.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2017
• Just keep putting the ball in his hands and sooner or later good stuff happens.
  — Dallas News, 5 Dec. 2022
• There are a few things Bernhard Seikovits has to take care of sooner or later.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2021
• West Mesquite and Longview plays Lufkin, so sooner or later, a clear leader will have to emerge.
  — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2022
• Still, your little one is bound to catch a cold sooner or later.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
• Tried and true has its place, but sooner or later Chevy needs to try something new.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2021
• This serves Macron in the short term but makes for a form of, well, Russian roulette, in which, sooner or later, the gun goes off, and the extremes win.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• That said, sooner or later, this dance is coming to an end.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 20 Feb. 2021
• Putting one foot in front of the other will get us somewhere sooner or later.
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
• But at least chronic worries about gas prices will be a thing of the past, sooner or later.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Nov. 2021
• Every other club in the game has to open its season on the road, sooner or later.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• New stars will be on their way sooner or later, depending on the speed of the rebuild.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• Of course, the Duchess could go into labor sooner or later than that.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 Apr. 2018
• Dragging a sharp blade along the edge of a can is certain to cause injury sooner or later.
  — Esther Inglis-Arkell, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2017
• Most pro football players act in ways on the field that in the real world would have them in court, sooner or later.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• That’s the risk in raving about something destined to be seen sooner or later on a small screen.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
• The 3,000th hit would come sooner or later for Pujols, and Aybar was calling with a wish of good luck.
  — Bill Shaikin, latimes.com, 4 May 2018
• But the problem with saviours is that, sooner or later, countries have to try to save themselves from them.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2018
• However, the news of the spin-off confirms that the two will cross paths again, either sooner or later.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• Smith doesn’t see signs of a slowdown anytime soon, though, of course, all booms end sooner or later.
  — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 30 Jan. 2018
• In that case, the S&P 500 will need to include Tesla in its index sooner or later.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2020
• Somebody will come up sooner or later and tell us a lot more about this person.
  — Fox News, 19 May 2018
• Walk middle, sooner or later, squish, just like a grape.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2022
• What happens next, in other words, is what should have happened months ago, and what had to happen sooner or later.
  — David Von Drehle, Washington Post, 21 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024