How to Use finite in a Sentence

finite

adjective

• My job as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns is finite.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 15 June 2022
• And here’s the key: light travels through space at a finite speed.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2023
• And for the type of gear Russia needs, there are a finite number of sources.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
• The work is finite, and in time the life of the psyche is resolved and turns back to normal.
  — Mark Edmundson, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• Time is finite in the NBA, and the Pacers current core doesn’t have a ton of time left.
  — Tony East, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• There were reasons to keep finite money out of the state.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 9 Aug. 2023
• And there is only a finite amount of space and outlets to get your client in.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 May 2022
• But looking back at Earth from there, the atmosphere seems thin and the world finite.
  — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• These were [a mix of] finite state machines and switch controllers.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 1 July 2024
• The sounds are finite, yet the benefits of tuning in to the film’s wavelengths are endless.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
• The black hole has no finite size, but there is this abstract size of the event horizon, which is the last point that light can escape.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• The machine is controlled by a finite set of rules and starts on an initial sequence of symbols on the tape.
  — Jie Wang, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
• Some folks see everything as a finite pie—there’s only so much of it to go around.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• One key reason is that gold is a scarce, finite resource.
  — Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
• One of the things that makes life beautiful is its finite nature.
  — Angela Dawson, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• The scheme does have a finite amount of funding, so it's not guaranteed to be available.
  — Michele Robson, Forbes, 26 June 2021
• That ticking bomb got louder, and my sense of time felt both finite and endless.
  — Washington Post, 3 June 2021
• That's a big deal because groundwater is finite — use it once and it's done.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• No rate of growth is sustainable when the world has finite resources.
  — Miray Zaki, Time, 1 Oct. 2021
• If true cohesion, borne of toil and time, is just too hard to pull off in L.A., where the spotlight burns harshly and the king’s reign is finite?
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 4 Jan. 2024
• Raise the stakes a little by making a rule that a gift can be swapped only a finite number of times, say three or five.
  — USA Today, 7 Dec. 2022
• TikTok pays creators from a finite pool of money, which means the more creators join the fund, the less money there is to go around.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2022
• In the end, though, the competition for finite resources might prove too much for Ukraine aid to survive.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• The finite nature of time is written through my DNA and across my skin in so many different ways.
  — Nell Frizzell, Vogue, 5 May 2024
• Jacky Levy, the costume designer, goes toe to toe with the writers in the sense that the finite details throughout are so clever.
  — Alicia Lutes, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2021
• But each had an incentive to keep their bids low, as NASA had a finite budget for the program.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
• The three events occupy the past, the finite present, and the unlimited future.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• But for Israel, a war with Gaza is containable and finite.
  — Time, 27 May 2021
• The finite number of bitcoins on the market has helped to drive bitcoin’s price higher.
  — Amber Burton, WSJ, 7 May 2021
• Why accurate skills measurement matters Time is a finite resource.
  — Bernardo Nunes, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024