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Example sentences for "eternal"

Lexicographically close words:
ete; eten; etendue; etenim; eterna; eternall; eternally; eterne; eternise; eternities
  1. Heaven has marked you with the black seal of eternal damnation because you still grovel in sin and refuse to obey the voice and teachings of our holy Prophet.

  2. Even in those favored lands, where Art once seemed to have fixed her eternal abode, the inspiration of genius is succeeded by the technical skill of the academician.

  3. Not all the thunders of thy wrath can move The soul that's dedicate to worshipping Eternal Beauty, everlasting Love.

  4. He has not discovered, nor even sought for, anything beyond this; and this eternal repetition of the same subject is a malady which afflicts too many of the artists of our day.

  5. Schaunard's eyes had this peculiarity, that they were at once friendly to one and cruel, they matched the eternal little laugh which was ever springing to his lips--the laugh of the eternal mocker.

  6. The bones were there, picked clean and bleached, exemplifying the eternal hunger of the desert, which is one of the most horrible facts in life.

  7. Just as there is eternal war to the death between the beasts of this jungle, so there is war to the death between the trees, the vines, and the weeds.

  8. If the people of India are enslaved by violence it is only because they themselves live and have lived by violence, and do not recognize the eternal law of love inherent in humanity.

  9. II O ye, who see perplexities over your heads, beneath your feet, and to the right and left of you; you will be an eternal enigma unto yourselves until ye become humble and joyful as children.

  10. Gare de Sceaux, from which point of departure it was clear that no reasonable man would think of starting for the Eternal City.

  11. Was Julie's mind to be the home of an eternal antithesis between the living husband and the dead lover--in which the latter had forever the beau rôle?

  12. I could see his old face, as he put before me the thoughts I had dared to entertain, the risks I had been ready to take towards the woman I loved--the woman to whom I owed a deep debt of eternal gratitude.

  13. We do not get to any heaven by renouncing the Mother we spring from; and when there is an eternal secret for us, it is befit to believe that Earth knows, to keep near her, even in our utmost aspirations.

  14. The goodness of the dear good mother gone was in him for assurance of a breast of goodness to receive her, whatever the nature of the eternal secret may be.

  15. Such an eternal conflagration must have an outlet for the vast quantity of vapor generated, and Ashman wondered that he had not noticed the ascending smoke on his way thither.

  16. Not so fades Love's eternal light When storm-clouds weep; I know one heart's with me to-night Upon the deep!

  17. Separation is painful, but the prospect of eternal happiness brings sweet consolation.

  18. Back on that solemn hour My thoughts are often cast; Be mine such faith and power To triumph at the last; With smiles to meet my latest foe, And die eternal life to know.

  19. She was much pleased, and said the Lord had sent me, as she was wishing to see me, having had her desires after eternal life revived.

  20. Then health or sickness let me share, As wills eternal love; For all is well, if Thou art near, Thy creature to approve.

  21. My precious husband has now been fourteen days in the eternal world.

  22. O may it be exerted in my full preparation for eternal glory, to meet my dear friend there.

  23. Hence virtue takes its deepest root, And scatters fragrance in the shoot; Blossoms when youth hath passed away, Maturing for eternal day.

  24. The old man got rid of his beard and his sins together, and, about two or three years later, both died in the hope of eternal life.

  25. Ann, given up by her medical attendants, is rejoicing in the prospect of eternal glory.

  26. We swear eternal faithfulness, and declare that we desire to pass our lives with them, and seem to await a husband's death impatiently.

  27. I have seen in the depths of her soul such treasures that the beautiful line of Dante on eternal happiness, which I heard her interpreting to you the other day, "Senza brama sicura ricchezza," seems as if made for her.

  28. To you, Calyste, I shall owe my eternal happiness; will you not accept a few paltry and fleeting benefits from me?

  29. He had divined in that old man an apostle of his own religion; he recognized in his soul the vestiges of an eternal love.

  30. Eternal vigilance is the price of beautiful building material for the character in such an unfolding life.

  31. The eternal Father says to His child, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.

  32. According to this theory, which was initiated by Gustav Jaeger in 1878, there occurs an eternal transmission of an inheritable germ plasm, this being temporarily housed within the perishable soma of the individual living being.

  33. Raising his voice, he invoked the fatherland's eternal gratitude for such loyalty and self-renunciation even unto death.

  34. What, then, is the true and eternal principle of humanity?

  35. How can we reconcile the mutation and the variability of the germ plasm, with its immortality and its eternal transmission?

  36. Stefan Zweig's Jeremias is the finest contemporary specimen known to me of this august melancholy which, looking beyond the bloody drama of to-day, is able to see in it the eternal tragedy of mankind.

  37. The duty you have to perform is a sacred duty--see that you perform it righteously and conscientiously, and bear in mind that the eyes of the Eternal are upon you.

  38. In a few minutes I shall be in eternal fire unless you grant me absolution and forgiveness for my crimes.

  39. May eternal torments be mine if I stole it!

  40. Indistinct shapes grew out of the mighty and eternal waterfall.

  41. Therefore, whatever is thrust into the worship of God, that is not agreeable to divine revelation, cannot be done but by a human faith, which faith will not be profitable to eternal life.

  42. Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, Omnipotence.

  43. He lands us on a grassy stage, Safe from the storms, and prelate's rage: He gave us this eternal spring Which here enamels everything, And sends the fowls to us in care On daily visits through the air.

  44. Break the bonds of natural affection, martyr thy love, and know that in all these things eternal wisdom hath its ends.

  45. On the very last day he began again his eternal story of the cross and the Emperor.

  46. The seeds are winged and the wind scatters them widely, but most of them are lost on barren rocks or drifts of eternal snow.

  47. Sycamores flourished in Greenland in the Cretaceous age, some millions of years ago, as is shown by fossil remains dug up in that land of ice and eternal winter.

  48. Already was the world in every part Pregnant with the true creed, disseminated By messengers of the eternal kingdom; And thy assertion, spoken of above, With the new preachers was in unison; Whence I to visit them the custom took.

  49. The Good Supreme, sole in itself delighting, Created man good, and this goodly place Gave him as hansel of eternal peace.

  50. What thou hast seen was that thou mayst not fail To ope thy heart unto the waters of peace, Which from the eternal fountain are diffused.

  51. See how he holds them pointed up to heaven, Fanning the air with the eternal pinions, That do not moult themselves like mortal hair!

  52. So much it gives itself as it finds ardour, So that as far as charity extends, O'er it increases the eternal valour.

  53. Thou bearest away the eternal part of him, For one poor little tear, that takes him from me; But with the rest I'll deal in other fashion!

  54. By malison of theirs is not so lost Eternal Love, that it cannot return, So long as hope has anything of green.

  55. Suffice it thee, and smite earth with thy heels, Thine eyes lift upward to the lure, that whirls The Eternal King with revolutions vast.

  56. If I unfold to him the eternal vengeance," Responded Statius, "where thou present art, Be my excuse that I can naught deny thee.

  57. And he to me: "From the eternal council Falls power into the water and the tree Behind us left, whereby I grow so thin.

  58. They had exchanged vows of love and eternal fidelity.

  59. Then let's shake hands over it," said Harry, "and swear an eternal friendship.

  60. Fulfilling a desire (of which he was already, aware) on the part of those who had expressed a touching anxiety respecting his eternal welfare, he confessed and took the holy sacrament.

  61. They may utter voices through the organs of man when they dwell in human hearts, but amongst themselves is no voice nor sound--eternal silence reigns in their kingdoms.

  62. What would have been the feelings of his unhappy wife, if she had been able, during the space of these two eternal hours, to hear his groans?

  63. Conceive how deeply that eternal coastline, that fixed horizon, those island rocks, must have graven their images upon the minds of the Grecian warriors by the time that they had reached the ninth year of the siege!

  64. Unfortunately I am not at liberty to mention this part of the woman’s prophecies; why, I cannot tell, but so it is, that she bound me to eternal secrecy.

  65. Then at another time he would be convinced that the attachment of menials might satisfy the longings of his affectionate heart, and thereupon he would give orders to his slave-merchant for something in the way of eternal fidelity.

  66. There, then, before me were the gardens and the minarets of Egypt and the mighty works of the Nile, and I (the eternal Ego that I am!

  67. Assist me, thou Eternal Mind, and let me not be like those who cleave to the sod until the sod rolls over their coffins!

  68. A new light is always at hand, though sometimes unseen to them; but they dread eternal night, because they do not know that light is indestructible.

  69. The chaplain stared at Ivo, and was silent for some time; at last he said, with a complacent smile, "It is his celestial happiness to open to others the gates of eternal bliss.

  70. And, haply, round the Eternal Throne, Heaven's pitying angels shall not ask For that last look the world hath known, But for the face behind the mask!

  71. It was a solemn and sequestered spot, where an eternal spring seemed to reign, and which looked like the cradle of infant Nature, where she first awoke, in all her primeval bloom of beauty.

  72. A spring, gushing from its brow, shed a light dew on every side, which bestowed an eternal freshness on the balmy air, and on those fragrant flowers, which opened now their choicest sweets.

  73. It is for you to decide whether this freedom shall yet survive, or be clothed with a funeral pall and be wrapped in eternal gloom"--very properly she reported the matter to headquarters, and the cheap edition was called in.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eternal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; ageless; boundless; ceaseless; changeless; coeternal; constant; continual; continuous; countless; creation; dateless; deathless; endless; enduring; eternal; everlasting; glorious; good; hallowed; highest; holy; immeasurable; immemorial; immense; immortal; immutable; incalculable; incessant; incomprehensible; indestructible; inexhaustible; inextinguishable; infinite; innumerable; interminable; invariable; just; lasting; limitless; loving; luminous; majestic; merciful; omnipotent; omnipresent; omniscient; one; perdurable; perennial; permanent; perpetual; radiant; sacred; sovereign; steady; supreme; timeless; transcendent; ubiquitous; unbounded; unceasing; unchanging; undefined; unending; unfathomable; uninterrupted; universal; unlimited; unmeasured; unnumbered; unplumbed; unremitting; untold


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    eternal being; eternal bliss; eternal damnation; eternal death; eternal fire; eternal glory; eternal happiness; eternal hell; eternal justice; eternal life; eternal love; eternal misery; eternal pain; eternal punishment; eternal rest; eternal ruin; eternal salvation; eternal torment; eternal truth; eternal truths; eternal youth; eternally damned