[
UK
/pəpˈɛtʃuːəli/
]
[ US /pɝˈpɛtʃuəɫi/ ]
[ US /pɝˈpɛtʃuəɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
without interruption
the world is constantly changing -
everlastingly; for all time
rays...streaming perpetually from the sun
How To Use perpetually In A Sentence
- Sometime snooker world champion, perpetually in the tabloids for his substance-assisted high jinks, he's the quintessence of Essex wide-boy.
- Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes. The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
- The footwell was perpetually swamped now, my forearms were pumped from choking the oars in a death grip, and dime-size blisters had begun to well up under the calluses on my palms.
- She followed the perpetually circular movement of the revolving doors, stepping out onto Kyanka Street.
- The girl's afore-mentioned burden - a phenomenon - had been perpetually exacerbated by Carl's boorish, bullying behaviour towards her.
- The narcotic rhythms are punctuated with a series of brief freeze-frames, an initially distracting device which lends a woozy, hung-over perspective to a woozy, perpetually hung-over protagonist.
- Standing in the middle of the vast complex, the industrial drone sounds like an aircraft perpetually coming in to land. Times, Sunday Times
- Officers and men alike were perpetually cold, wet, filthy, tired and frustrated.
- Canbet also offers perpetually reduced vigorish on straight bets and parlays.
- The notion of a single cybernetic organism is rejected in favor of a body-without-organs, ‘an imageless, organless body [which is] perpetually reinserted into the process of production’.