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Meanings of perpetual in English
Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing.
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Examples for "eternal"
Examples for "eternal"
1
The high priest said to Houphouët, 'All right, you want eternal power.
2
Experience certainly suggests one outcome over the other but hope springs eternal.
3
But this great superstitious fear was, however, part of Benedict's eternal charm.
4
Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal.
5
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
1
Drink long; in this wine lurk the seeds of the life everlasting.
2
He saw the shine of the everlasting stars in the deep blue.
3
No; it was something in them, something inborn and subtle and everlasting.
4
At Jesus' right hand, the righteous received the reward of everlasting life.
5
Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life everlasting.
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Quantock checked his list, the unending task of every good first lieutenant.
2
She heard her people talk; they were unending babblers in the waterfall.
3
He made his simple ventures round the coast voyages terrible and unending.
4
Mr Zussman said the call for housing is unending and sometimes overwhelming.
5
The grinding of stone and gears is unending as the works approach.
1
Thus there is unceasing influx from the spiritual world into the natural.
2
The morning passed away in unceasing yet fruitless speculation on the future.
3
The Archaeological Survey is engaged in unceasing battle with the pīpal seedlings.
4
Lastly, the fortifications in the mountain pass required unceasing labour and attention.
5
His life in the University was one of varied and unceasing activity.
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I shall stay as I am for all time now; ageless, changeless.
2
Age is a number and beauty is ageless, another supportive commenter wrote.
3
He is just north of 60 and ageless, at the same time.
4
Shearlings coats, velvets blazers and jewel-toned knitwear anchor the ageless power suit.
5
Her eyes were like the first morning of the world, so ageless.
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His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away.
2
For we miss to hear the fairy tale of time, the aeonian chant radiant with light and color which the spirit prolongs.
3
This is the "æonian condemnation" to which reference was made a little while ago.
4
An Arcadian Island in some Aeonian Sea.
5
Far away-asin the heart of an æonian silence, I heard the clear jubilant outcry of the golden throat.
Usage of perpetual in English
1
And, of course, he has no problem talking about his perpetual tan.
2
The vultures and the sand-grouse held it undisturbed in a perpetual tenancy.
3
This led the DA's local governments into a phase of perpetual uncertainty.
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Therefore, women are under enormous societal pressure to remain in perpetual adolescence.
5
The constant interruptions and micro-management was a perpetual pain in the ass.
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The perpetual emotion in which Marcella lived tired and oppressed the mother.
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The skies above us and the earth underfoot are in perpetual motion.
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Their ideas are incidents in their perpetual oscillation between apathy and passion.
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This is to be the perpetual rule for the Senatus in deciding.
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Days later, the perpetual train comes to the residue of that drift.
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It's almost as if you're in a perpetual state of missing something.
12
I do not believe in the necessity of wide-spread and perpetual misery.
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The plea in extenuation of guilt and mitigation of punishment is perpetual.
14
The multiplication and addition of cats were a perpetual instruction in arithmetic.
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People were in perpetual conflict about the character of the great man.
16
Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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Ireland
Less common