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Example sentences for "eventually"

Lexicographically close words:
eventless; events; eventual; eventualities; eventuality; eventuate; eventuated; eveques; ever; everblooming
  1. The passages eventually extended about 220 feet into the rock.

  2. He escaped by jumping overboard and eventually reached Antioch, where he fell in with a band of pilgrims, with whom he journeyed to Normandy by way of Belgrad and Rome.

  3. From this period probably date the marble columns, later appropriated to the churches which were eventually transported to Cairo.

  4. Half this lease Baskett sold to Charles Eyre, who eventually appointed William Strahan his printer.

  5. Eventually the Lords, afraid to leave the King without money, passed the bill.

  6. It eventually reached L5,850, at which sum the theatre was 'knocked down.

  7. Finding himself hampered on the Morning Chronicle, Woodfall started a new daily paper, with the title of the Diary, but eventually he was overpowered by his competitors and their large staff of reporters.

  8. After the Great Fire he came to the Clifford's Inn Appeal Court about his Fleet Street house, which had been burnt over the heads of his tenants, and eventually he rebuilt it.

  9. He eventually abandoned this idea, partly on account of the expense, and also because the spread wings of the phoenix would present too much resistance to the wind.

  10. The three rough fringy edges are called the "deckelled" edges, being the natural boundary of the pulp when first moulded; the fourth is left smooth by the knife, which eventually cuts the two notes in twain.

  11. There are eventually to be four evangelists and four major prophets.

  12. His house being burned down, he removed to London, and projected a Sunday newspaper, but eventually Mr. Bell stole the idea and started the Messenger.

  13. It was late in the season and the snow was already deep on the ground when eventually we were piloted to the spot selected.

  14. Nineteen such floating depots were eventually arranged for, with the precaution that if any one of them had to return to port, he should bring no tobacco home, but hand over his stock and accounts to a reliable friend.

  15. A heavy topsail was hastily thrown over her side, and eventually hauled under the keel--the inrushing water keeping it there.

  16. When eventually I left, it was with a determination either to make religion a real effort to do as I thought Christ would do in my place as a doctor, or frankly abandon it.

  17. Fortunately, drifting with the spar, he again found bottom, and was eventually rescued, half full of salt water.

  18. With fifty-odd people aboard, and a long trail of nineteen fishing boats we eventually got back to Indian Harbour, where every one joined in helping our friends in misfortune till the steamer came and took them South.

  19. The Sybil he eventually gave to the Mission, and built a large boat, the Jeanette, in which I had the pleasure later of exploring with him and roughly charting three hitherto unrecorded bays.

  20. We had eventually to get a steamer to go around us and smash our ice bonds when we were again ready for sea.

  21. A Salvation Army lass found him deserted and in poverty, nursed and looked after him and eventually made a new man of him.

  22. By repeated jerks she was eventually ours, but leaking so like a basket that we feared we should yet lose her.

  23. But hostility following hostility, the colonists were eventually utterly routed and cut off in a pitched battle at Drabescus (B.

  24. The Andrian deities eventually triumphed, and the siege was raised without effect.

  25. Barney Ghegan eventually recovered, and resumed his duties on the police force.

  26. Of course such a girl would eventually marry, and with natural hope and egotism each one felt that he might be the successful competitor.

  27. Lee must be found and fought, and all that any one knew was that the two great armies would eventually meet in the decisive battle of the war.

  28. Papa thinks I will yield eventually to his persistence and many fascinations.

  29. Her choice will eventually fall on Lane, Blauvelt, or poor little me.

  30. If I marry rank and wealth abroad the lady may eventually remind me of her condescension.

  31. To some such man I shall eventually yield," she assured herself, "and not to one who brings a chill of doubt, not to one unmastered by loyal impulses to face every danger which our enemies dare meet.

  32. When he was fit for duty again his regiment was in the West, and it remained there until the close of the war, he having eventually attained to its command.

  33. But Strahan believed that the romance of his life was over, and he eventually joined his regiment with some reckless hopes of "stopping a bullet" as he phrased it.

  34. Eventually (I suppose) I shall think it wrong to sit on a chair.

  35. In this dilemma (the same as ours) Christianity suddenly stepped in and offered a singular answer, which the world eventually accepted as the answer.

  36. We may eventually be bound not to disturb a man's mind even by argument; not to disturb the sleep of birds even by coughing.

  37. This Earl of Arundel eventually became the well-known patron of the fine arts.

  38. He eventually became a Priest of the Society of Jesus.

  39. William Tesimond was, for a great part of his life, a rigid Catholic, suffering imprisonment for his faith, although eventually he appears to have yielded.

  40. Our satellite is a prophecy indeed of what the earth must eventually become when all its life forces, its internal energies, are dissipated into space.

  41. The liquid eventually separated into two layers, an upper ethereal layer containing about 5 per cent.

  42. At first he simply admitted that his wrongness had made him powerless--as it had made him powerless against Gilly--but eventually his mistake about the workman influenced his entire attitude.

  43. She had met other egotists--in fact she found that selfish people bored her rather less than unselfish people--but as yet there had not been one she had not eventually defeated and brought to her feet.

  44. This road will cross the Yellow river, affording relief to this populous district in time of disaster; and it is understood will eventually be extended to traverse the empire, forming a means of rapid communication between distant provinces.

  45. Bort concludes that a daily knowledge of the relation of these centres and their areas of displacement will eventually enable skilled meteorologists to deduce the position of unknown and secondary centres.

  46. Indeed, it may be said, this is but the beginning of a thorough examination of Alaskan territory, that will eventually form a basis for the demarkation of the international boundary.

  47. In event of the latter being a day late or ahead, the fact is recorded, or every one would eventually lose complete track of dates, Sunday likely as not being observed in name in the middle of the week.

  48. The lion kept on his own course, crossing Jack's path and eventually disappearing in a deep arroya, or gulch, all the while turning his head from side to side watching but not attempting to molest either Jack or the horses.

  49. Chiquita knew that the young warriors would eventually precipitate a clash, which might occur when Jack was coming or going from the reservation.

  50. If we watch our chances, and take timely advantage of the opportunities offered us, our race will greatly improve and we will be wage workers, skilled artisans, and eventually land owners and a wealthy class of citizens of this country.

  51. Brains and energy will eventually win their legitimate place in the equation of civic virtue, and the forces of right will gravitate, the one towards the other, just as the flowering plant turns to the sunlight.

  52. This will naturally bring with it that experience which will eventually enable him to be a successful manager of these institutions.

  53. The cotton fields and sugar farms now maintained by the Negroes will eventually be deserted by them, if the whites continue to oppress them.

  54. Hard as are some of the evils of the Education Act, they are outbalanced by the good, and it is that Act above all others which will eventually bring about the new order of things so long desired.

  55. Eventually the 'beautiful little scholard,' who was waiting outside, was sent for.

  56. Eventually the father applied to the relieving officer, and obtained an order for the burial of the body.

  57. The brother of a clergyman and scholar of European repute died eventually in this slum.

  58. But what I have written about I have in every case seen with my own eyes, and in no case have I exaggerated; and yet more than one of my kindly correspondents doubt my story of the dead body being kept, and eventually put out into the street.

  59. The omnibus and the train are the magicians which will eventually bid the rookeries disappear, but the services of these magicians cost money, and there is none to spare in the pockets of the poor.

  60. They must either pay for these luxuries out of their scanty earnings or go without, and eventually find their way to the hospital.

  61. Around it eventually is formed the vertebral column, the arches of the vertebræ embracing and protecting the spinal cord.

  62. Eventually it bursts through the swelling, but remains attached for a time.

  63. Eventually she seemed to chase him off the field.

  64. And eventually this dislike or delight is transferred from his own actions to the similar actions of others.

  65. Darwin[BG] suggested that all the cells of the various tissues produce minute particles called gemmules, which circulate freely throughout the body, but eventually find a home in the reproductive cells.

  66. Eventually the cyst bursts, and the spores swarm forth.

  67. Hereditary similarity is due to the fact that parents and offspring are derived eventually from the same germinal cells.

  68. This is at first in direct connection with the parent stem, the two having a common internal cavity; but eventually it separates and lives a free existence as a distinct organism (see Fig.

  69. But eventually one or other prevails, and the organs become either ovaries or testes.

  70. But eventually he came to the acutely tearful place in the story, and then he was at his best.

  71. Days of terrible suffering for Napoleon's army followed, but eventually Studzianka, on the left bank of the Beresina, was reached, and the soldiers hoped that once in Poland their trials would diminish.

  72. Sarah Hall, when quite a little child, announced her intention of becoming a missionary, and a missionary she eventually became.

  73. Quickly untying her, they carried her into the fresh air, where she was promptly attended to by a doctor, who eventually succeeded in restoring her to consciousness.

  74. The British native troops were disheartened, and eventually it was decided to retreat from the city.

  75. Mrs. Judson, having to buy food and superintend her servants, soon learnt a few Burmese sentences, but her husband was learning the language scientifically, with the intention of eventually translating the Bible into Burmese.

  76. For several years the brothers lived on friendly terms with each other, but eventually quarrels arose through two of them wanting to marry the same woman.

  77. However, with the other women, they accepted the proffered protection, and were taken to a fort in the Khurd Kabul, and eventually they heard that the force with which they had quitted Kabul had been annihilated.

  78. When only fourteen years of age she started a class for ragged and neglected children, and eventually she had as many as two hundred pupils.

  79. Soon it was found that Government House would have to be evacuated, and eventually the British and Americans took shelter in a six-room house on the wharf.

  80. It was believed that he would die, but she nursed him day and night, and eventually had the great joy of seeing him recover.

  81. Erelong it shall enchain the world, and eventually the hearts of all the nations of the world will be brought together by its constraining clasp.

  82. They persecuted Him bitterly, inflicted upon Him every torment, imprisoned, bastinadoed, banished Him and eventually confined Him in a fortress.

  83. Although imprisoned, He withstood two tyrant kings and eventually overcame both.

  84. No such thing has happened before that time nor since—a prisoner and an exile advancing His Cause and spreading His teachings broadcast so that eventually He became powerful enough to conquer the very king who banished Him.

  85. And eventually the gloomy darkness of the outer world will disappear, and the light of reality will shine until the whole earth will be effulgent with its glory.

  86. Eventually all differences will disappear, and you will completely win his friendship.

  87. This light has come forth from the East, and eventually there shall be no discord or enmity in the Orient.

  88. Perhaps I would have taken him eventually if you hadn't.

  89. And while they debated this question, Napoleon eventually passed through their lines as if he had been an unconcerned spectator.

  90. His mother, however, had not accompanied her husband during that exile, and, in consequence, had succeeded eventually in preventing the confiscation of some of his property.

  91. He eventually dissipated his fortune, but throughout his life remained noted for his wit, his good humour, and his prominence in the world of fashion.

  92. Such an offer to an enfeebled invalid was most acceptable, and accordingly Stanhope eventually left Paris in company with the banker, his wife and their two daughters.

  93. In 1748 Walter Stanhope of Horsforth united the two families by his marriage with Ann Spencer of Cannon Hall, and their son Walter, eventually inheriting both properties from his respective uncles, bore the name of Spencer-Stanhope.

  94. With the greatest difficulty and only at an exorbitant price was he able to get horses and the promise of a voiturier who eventually sent his wife as driver in his place, being probably himself a suspected person who could not leave the city.

  95. In 1565 a branch of the Stanhopes came from Lancashire into Yorkshire, and eventually settled at Horsforth, Low Hall, near Calverley Bridge, in the latter county.

  96. But eventually one of them sort of rebels, and that frees any of the others that are offbeat, so the bad ones all show at once and we can spot them.

  97. And, like the roasting pig, the time eventually came when it was done.

  98. Well, assuming all that, I imagine that it would eventually ruin Snookums.

  99. The story is well told, native life is admirably described, and the petty intrigues of native rulers, and their hatred of the English, mingled with fear lest the latter should eventually prove the victors, are cleverly depicted.

  100. Eventually they would be about the same height--Radha, perhaps, a shade taller, and both slighter than Anunda ever had been.

  101. Men sang them to their oxen as they ploughed, or drew water from their wells; and so a spirit spread through the people which eventually became irresistibly powerful.

  102. We often begin by desiring others to enjoy what we shall eventually want for ourselves.


  103. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eventually" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    eventually; finally; last; length; sometime; soon; ultimately; yet