How to Use in perpetuity in a Sentence

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• Which bit should the Ukrainians give up, in perpetuity, to the Russians?
  — Boris Johnson, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• Most people don’t leave enough money in the trust to maintain the home in perpetuity.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Each of them will be offered a house of their choice, most likely in perpetuity.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 June 2023
• Sanders pledged the state will cover the raises in perpetuity.
  — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
• And how, after a decade of locking horns, the two sides reached an agreement that will protect the land in perpetuity.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
• The company has enough cash flow to buy back $7 billion worth of shares in perpetuity.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2022
• Half was snap-frozen and stored in perpetuity in a negative-80-degree freezer.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
• But the ornaments jut out; a granite lunch box and cup of coffee rest in perpetuity atop hunks of rock.
  — Ellyn Gaydos, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• If that is true, a question arises, who pays for the storage in perpetuity?
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
• But [Ole Munch] had sold his soul and as a result was forced to wander the earth in perpetuity afterwards.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 14 June 2024
• The film will receive a copyright and will exist in perpetuity in the Library of Congress.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2024
• The film paints a portrait of a family left in limbo to suffer in perpetuity through no fault of their own.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
• Do Tar Heel fans now have bragging rights in perpetuity?
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
• In exchange for that money — plus a tax break — the Boeddekers promised to keep those acres rural in perpetuity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
• But for a significant number of women, these go on for over a decade, and some in perpetuity.
  — Angela Haupt, TIME, 21 June 2024
• For many, the existence of the prince is a sign that Wakanda will not be destroyed, and that Boseman’s memory will live on in perpetuity.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• Stevens suggested that the leashing rule stay in place in perpetuity in order to avoid fencing.
  — Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023
• The money will stay there in perpetuity until someone claims it.
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2023
• The money will stay there in perpetuity until someone claims it.
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2023
• The fix was hardly cheap — ratepayers in Los Angeles have shelled out $2.5 billion so far, and the city will likely be at Owens Lake in perpetuity to ensure the dust stays down.
  — ArcGIS StoryMaps, 11 Oct. 2022
• With the funds came instructions: The money is to be used to make tuition free for students at the Bronx institution, in perpetuity.
  — Christine Emba, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2024
• Another time, their father and aunt allowed the county to acquire more of their land to build Patuxent High School — with the caveat that heirs have an access point to the land in perpetuity.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Soon the federal government leased the land from the tribe in perpetuity, and bigger and better telescopes bloomed on the mountaintop.
  — Joshua Sokol, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022
• If the way a new-wave starlet makes her money is by allowing herself to be immortalized on-screen, gazed at in perpetuity, what about the rest of us?
  — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
• The fiery dissents from the liberal justices, and the reaction from Democrats and the White House, paint the picture of a high court anointing the presidency as an office above the law in perpetuity.
  — Cameron Joseph, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
• This means the island cannot be further developed, and the plant and animal species that live there are protected in perpetuity.
  — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• The area would develop itself, the park increasing the value of the neighborhood in perpetuity.
  — Nicolaia Rips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
• As part of the scheme, the UFC not only controls Fighters’ careers, but also takes and expropriates the rights to their names and likenesses in perpetuity.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 31 July 2024
• Some of this debt may never actually come due, since the U.S. has the capability of rolling over its debts in perpetuity.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• But for couples who consider each embryo a human life, destroying the extras—or donating them for research, or freezing them in perpetuity—can go against their core beliefs.
  — Sushma Subramanian, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024