How to Use perpetual in a Sentence

perpetual

adjective

• The region is in a state of perpetual war.
• He seems to have a perpetual grin on his face.
• The grinds and kick-flips; the perpetual motion and the empty air around you.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2021
• To be a woman today in the world is to be in a perpetual state of rage.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2022
• Football with a perpetual bead of sweat on the end of your nose.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
• Most of us have spent the past year in a state of near-perpetual anxiety and stress.
  — Virginia Sole-Smith, Good Housekeeping, 16 Apr. 2021
• It is owned by the town, which provides a perpetual lease to the Little League.
  — David Anderson, The Aegis, 16 May 2018
• The Dolphins are in the third year of their perpetual rebuild.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2021
• This brings us to the third step — and the reason this entire process is perpetual.
  — Daniel Woods, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• Not long ago, the Dons were mired in near-perpetual mediocrity.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2022
• Clouds linger, but that perpetual leak in the sky above your home will shut off today.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
• Our first season is all about the perpetual search for the perfect place—that’s right, utopias.
  — Kelsey Keith, Curbed, 5 July 2019
• His perpetual rage led him to beat his first wife, Ida.
  — Richard Goldstein, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• To forgive yourself a thousand times a day and live in a perpetual state of grace.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
• In the home, a chalk wall can serve as anything from a grocery or to-do list to a child's perpetual blank canvas.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 29 Apr. 2019
• About fishing for perch and floating in a rowboat in the middle of the bay with a good book and a perpetual sunburn.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
• Like the mosh pits and dance floors that have thrilled to his music over the years, Skrillex knows that perpetual motion is crucial.
  — Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
• That peace treaty turned out to be not so perpetual after all.
  — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 20 May 2019
• Ethics groups have to raise money to keep going, so their need to find blame is perpetual.
  — Bruce K. Chapman, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• But don’t expect McCloud to get back on the perpetual loop soon.
  — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2022
• That part of us that stands in protest to the ills of the physical world is, in fact, evidence of our perpetual nature.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2023
• That one-sided stroke should cause the sperm to swim in a perpetual circle, Gadelha said.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 31 July 2020
• But, as mentioned, very few are willing to do this at a perpetual loss.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
• Members of both groups live in a perpetual state of gloating, and of sneering, and of gloating and sneering at the same time.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
• The torus form and off-center void give a feeling of perpetual motion.
  — Nicola Chilton, CNN, 20 June 2022
• How strange to come of age right when something is ending, though maybe that’s the perpetual lot of college grads who move to New York.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• Living in a state of perpetual outrage isn’t good for us.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2018
• This is the perpetual question that people have been asking in the music business for years and years and years.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 23 Aug. 2018
• These acts of aggression, coupled with various minor skirmishes, kept the Israel-Lebanon border in a perpetual state of unease.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
• That path is not one of perpetual occupation and perpetual war.
  — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024