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US
/iˈtɝnəɫi, ɪˈtɝnəɫi/
]
[ UK /ɪtˈɜːnəli/ ]
[ UK /ɪtˈɜːnəli/ ]
ADVERB
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for a limitless time
no one can live forever
brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore
How To Use eternally In A Sentence
- _They_ were compelled to regard exploitage as a cruel but eternally unavoidable condition of the progress of civilisation; for when they lived it was and it always had been a necessity of civilisation, and they could not justly be expected to anticipate such a fundamental revolution in the conditions of human existence as must necessarily precede the passage from exploitage to economic equity. Freeland A Social Anticipation
- The past, the present and the future are enacted simultaneously and eternally in the perennial drama of the world.
- Christ's spiritual body (Col 1: 24). they ... also -- as well as myself: both God's elect not yet converted and those already so. salvation ... glory -- not only salvation from wrath, but glory in reigning with Him eternally (2Ti 2: 12). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Though such an important chief, he is the meanest dressed of his subjects, — is always filthy, — ever greasy — eternally foul about the mouth; but these are mere eccentricities: as a wise judge, he is without parallel, always has a dodge ever ready for the abstraction of cloth from the spiritless Arab merchants, who trade with Unyanyembe every year; and disposes with ease of a judicial case which would overtask ordinary men. How I Found Livingstone
- May you be eternally blessed as a member of our people.
- Now is the time for us to be eternally vigilant in protecting the constitutional principles on which our nation was built.
- An eternally flowing river that symbolises life, conveyed through choreography, is an unseen presence throughout the play.
- It's a legacy from those years of living off the land for which I am eternally grateful.
- It helps that their eternally optimistic manager exudes a permanent air of calm and conviction and has no trouble sleeping. Times, Sunday Times
- Above that is my small case-bound sketch-book complete with elastic band to hold it shut against the water-buckled pages that are eternally anxious to escape.