How to Use permanence in a Sentence

permanence

noun

• But there's just more permanence and weight to the design.
  — Devin Alessio, ELLE Decor, 11 June 2016
• For a lot of places, permanence is no longer a part of the business model.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• Trees give the yard and house a look of permanence and soften the second story or roofline against the sky.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2023
• There is no coming back from the permanence of the death penalty.
  — Kevin O'Neal Cokley, The Conversation, 27 Nov. 2019
• If your child is old enough to understand the permanence of death (around age 7), tell the truth.
  — Philly.com, 13 June 2018
• Of more permanence was the influence and power of a group known as the Rus across the vast swaths of land from the Baltic to the Caspian.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2010
• The work is meant to reimagine the concept, location, and permanence of the idea of home.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2019
• The first will be in three to five years when the reality of the permanence of the trauma settles in.
  — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
• And in a way, such a ring does give a stamp of permanence, even if the stamp bears a strong resemblance to Bozo the Clown.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2018
• Later, when the permanence of that final day set in, both thought about one thing: prom.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 24 June 2020
• Phase-change memory seems to offer the best of both worlds: the speed of current RAM with the permanence of a hard disk.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• The lack of object permanence with respect to one’s mom and dad is enough to make anyone hit the bottle.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2022
• Artemis seeks to go to the Moon with a sense of permanence rather than flying a half-dozen sorties down to the lunar surface.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
• His legacy will be cast in a permanence that’s hard to fathom.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• And ensuring permanence of the carbon stocks can be hard in the face of storms or marine heat waves.
  — Nicola Jones, Wired, 24 Apr. 2021
• But there remain some questions about the permanence of the treatment too.
  — Gabby Shacknai, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Aug. 2022
• His rug, designed to look like an IKEA receipt, makes the once-throwaway item one of permanence.
  — Vogue, 1 Oct. 2019
• The rule would give permanence to a December 2017 legal opinion that first laid out the agency’s stance on the law.
  — Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
• Yet the repetition of the same image insists on the permanence of the still moment.
  — Philip Gefter, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
• The rigidity of permanence would be too much to bear, surely: who wants to be stuck in the same place forever?
  — Longreads, 26 Jan. 2021
• It’s hard to ensure the permanence of trees, for example.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2019
• But perhaps worst of all, the equation of the two conditions implies a scary permanence.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• But fear not, those of you struggling with object permanence.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2022
• Between my aversion to the permanence and not even having a worthwhile design in mind, the idea was always a moot point.
  — Laura Neilson, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2021
• Students should be taught about the inevitable permanence of ephemeral speech.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 25 June 2021
• Only when Sadhana found herself on a bus leaving New York did the permanence of this trip begin to sink in.
  — Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 26 July 2019
• Aimee’s heart lurched at the sudden permanence of her mother’s absence.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• In permanence, the intent is to ensure that the benefits are long-lasting—a term that is slippery.
  — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2020
• The permanence of hair loss caused by alopecia universalis varies by individual.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
• The music is…a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, permanence.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024