How to Use perpetual in a Sentence

perpetual

adjective
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  • The region is in a state of perpetual war.
  • He seems to have a perpetual grin on his face.
  • 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
  • The grinds and kick-flips; the perpetual motion and the empty air around you.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2021
  • 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
  • This brings us to the third step — and the reason this entire process is perpetual.
    — Daniel Woods, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The Dolphins are in the third year of their perpetual rebuild.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Clouds linger, but that perpetual leak in the sky above your home will shut off today.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • To forgive yourself a thousand times a day and live in a perpetual state of grace.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • That peace treaty turned out to be not so perpetual after all.
    — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 20 May 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
  • His perpetual rage led him to beat his first wife, Ida.
    — Richard Goldstein, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Our first season is all about the perpetual search for the perfect place—that’s right, utopias.
    — Kelsey Keith, Curbed, 5 July 2019
  • The perpetual growth paradigm is one the world might no longer allow.
    — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Ethics groups have to raise money to keep going, so their need to find blame is perpetual.
    — Bruce K. Chapman, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Living in a state of perpetual outrage isn’t good for us.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Not long ago, the Dons were mired in near-perpetual mediocrity.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The torus form and off-center void give a feeling of perpetual motion.
    — Nicola Chilton, CNN, 20 June 2022
  • Other than that, the world was a perpetual solar eclipse.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • This puts product teams in a perpetual loop of working from a backlog.
    — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • It is owned by the town, which provides a perpetual lease to the Little League.
    — David Anderson, The Aegis, 16 May 2018
  • This perpetual state of mourning has devoured life in the village.
    — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The problem is life in this perpetual tug of war only undermines what the club is trying to achieve.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But, as mentioned, very few are willing to do this at a perpetual loss.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The net result is a perpetual shortage of donor organs.
    — Jonathan Reiner, CNN, 15 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Deas was a perpetual optimist who was rarely seen without a broad smile on his face.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Whereas children live in this sense of perpetual metaphor.
    — Maria Russo, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018

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