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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The law of averages would suggest that streak has to end sooner or later.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2022
  • His allies always clung to their faith that, sooner or later, Navalny would outlive the regime and emerge from the prison to replace it.
    Simon Shuster / Vilnius, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
  • And the timing of sooner or later remains as ambiguous as ever.
    Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 14 May 2024

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