How to Use eternity in a Sentence

eternity

noun

• They believed that sinners would spend eternity in hell.
• We suffered through an eternity of delays during the lawsuit.
• Then came the craziness that will live on highlight—or blooper—reels for the rest of eternity.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
• After what seemed like an eternity, four familiar faces appeared from down the street.
  — Dallas News, 11 Oct. 2020
• While the state of the race looks promising, Democrats know that three weeks add up to an eternity in the age of Trump.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2020
• But only to those who are patient, who live as though eternity stretched out before them vast and silent and unconcerned.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• The other half of Okkara, Arakko, has spent the eternity since in a hell dimension fighting armies of demons.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• From Meredith’s perspective, Derek is an eternity away halfway down the beach.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• Hiring a private company to take on one of those tasks would add at least 10 days to production times, an eternity during an outbreak.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2020
• Or can the story be read as a representation of the actual Hell—spending eternity in an underground space with no exit?
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
• That’s an eternity in modern markets, and the capital involved in transactions is often locked for the duration, adding costs and reducing agility.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2020
• What felt like an eternity for those present was only 14 minutes, Dixon said, from the time Felix was kicked until he was loaded into the ambulance.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2020
• Plus, paleontologists may finally be able figure out how a pair of foes ended up spending eternity interlocked in mortal combat.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
• The 49ers have ten long days before their next game, an eternity to dwell on not only two consecutive losses, but also the dismantling of their once competitive roster.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• The acceptance of death as a fact, rather than the desire to die, can empower my energies with a forcefulness and vigor not always possible when one eye is out unconsciously for eternity.
  — Audre Lorde, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2020
• Two weeks of quarantine feels like an eternity in a season that started two weeks later than usual and ends earlier than usual, with the regular season ending Nov. 7.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 27 Oct. 2020
• Committing to an eternity is substantive and sentimental, as is finding the song to encapsulate that forever feeling.
  — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Oct. 2020
• The ball hung in the air for what felt like an eternity.
  — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 6 Dec. 2020
• The ball soared in the air for what seemed like an eternity.
  — Mark Daniels, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2021
• The ball hung around the rim for what seemed like an eternity.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
• At the end of the fourth hour, the two will drive off into that tunnel in Paris and on to eternity.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• In Hebrew, the root of the word for victory is the same as the word for eternity.
  — Ari Berman, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• For a kid who needs surgery and can’t get it, 28 days is an eternity.
  — Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2021
• The finish line may be in sight but this last stretch of the marathon feels like an eternity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
• Poor Bron Breaker took an eternity to cut through the chains around the cage door.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• There are a couple of clips that will live rent-free in my mind for the rest of eternity.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 21 June 2021
• Where did God take them if not to some eternity with him?
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• You’ve been told as much for eternity, or since third grade.
  — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
• The match lasted nearly three hours, an eternity for earning the best two sets out of three.
  — Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Brat came out on June 7th, an eternity ago in the digital trend cycle.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024