How to Use eternal in a Sentence

eternal

1 of 2 adjective

• When will his eternal whining stop?
• May her soul rest in eternal peace.
  — Larry Stansbury, Essence, 26 Aug. 2025
• And his great themes are eternal ones.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
• Hope springs eternal and all that.
  — Kevin Sherrington feb. 25, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
• In the end, pope springs eternal.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
• Each telling places me in the eternal present tense.
  — David Greig september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
• Hey, in the fall, hope springs eternal, right?
  — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
• This play has both those things, and those things are eternal.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• Hope springs eternal in the mind of an actor!
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
• Well, thank you for being the eternal child.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2025
• The jade gifted to me was a twist, which means an eternal bond.
  — Rick Cantu, Austin American Statesman, 3 Feb. 2026
• But mosaics, made of glass and gold, are more eternal.
  — Chris Livesay, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• Here’s who kept hope springing eternal this week in late night.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
• There’s something in it that is eternal.
  — Jason Liwag, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
• But within all those notes, there’s eternal ideas.
  — Charles Moss, SPIN, 9 June 2026
• Jeans are my eternal style struggle.
  — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2025
• Hope does not always spring eternal.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026
• Lord, hold Nicole close in Your eternal peace.
  — Jason Rantala, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
• Hope springs eternal at spring training.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2026
• Because hope will spring eternal.
  — Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• But Scarlet cares not for eternal peace.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• And from these fears, grew a story where love was indeed eternal.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
• Hope springs eternal, after all.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
• Please hold his eternal light in your hearts and his family in your prayers.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
• There’s only the eternal present.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
• For eternal life, harvest a dead man's toe and a newt's saliva.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2023
• Hope springs eternal, and there’s a compelling new call for reform.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2023
• That this place, which has always been eternal, will outlast us.
  — Jeff Vandermeer, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
• From a wild card perspective, hope springs eternal.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
• What is the secret to–if not eternal life, then a long one, that’s also well-lived?
  — Kathleen Baird-Murray, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2024

eternal

2 of 2 noun

• But hope springs eternal, maybe more so in baseball than anywhere else.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
• Green shoots of hope reign eternal for both seagrass and sea cow, among those who study and love them most.
  — Jim Waymer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
• Youth, like hope, seemingly springs eternal at the dawn of a new season.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• Hope for the success of the alien apocalypse springs eternal.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
• There were a few too many people in Eternals, if the reviews are to be believed.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Hope springs eternal for the Tigers because of the prospects in their minor league system.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2021
• Hope springs eternal, though, as the two never confirmed their breakup with an official statement.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• But just like every team in the NFL, hope springs eternal in Week 1.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2021
• Still, hope springs eternal, especially with the wildness of small sample sizes.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2020
• Part of what makes multiple versions of the play eternal, for him, is simply the ritual.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
• These ancient seas and islands offer some reassuring glimpse of the eternal.
  — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2022
• Hope wasn’t given much of a chance to spring eternal on Monday for the Diamondbacks.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2022
• Its charms are straightforward, appealing to the eternal giggly adolescent in all of us.
  — Ligaya Mishan Melody Melamed, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• Ryan Coogler put in a really good word for me with Nate Moore, who was a producer for Eternals.
  — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 22 Jan. 2026
• The movie is director Zhao's first film since her 2021 Marvel movie Eternals.
  — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Because of that, and because many of these species live in hard-to-survey regions, many of the announcements this past year declared species possibly or probably lost, a sign that hope springs eternal.
  — John R. Platt, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2021
• Like last March, frustration has grown in the absence of any resolution, but for Turell, the team, and its supporters, their faith is more cemented in the eternal.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
• That would be the aforementioned Eternals, but also Shang-Chi, who was built up to be a hugely important character and then never got any sequel.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
• But anyone capable of transcending the eternal now of the news cycle and recalling the debates of a decade ago might hear echoes in the Lemoine story of quite another dispute about personhood and language.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• His eternal cant of smug victimhood — the one sane man in a sea of ignorance, rejected by his own community and harassed by the mainstream media — was more believable when Richard Nixon was doing it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• Some cultures, Eliade shows, preserve their eternals by simply denying the force of history; in Lyell’s case, the culture at hand was Christianity, and the ideal was the unique status of humankind.
  — Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
• The filmmaker is also well known for making the MCU’s 2021 blockbuster Eternals, a departure from the realism of her previous films.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2025
• As a writer, Robinson is a direct descendant of Frost, carrying on his tradition of careful, democratic observations of this country’s landscapes and its people, perpetually keeping one eye on the eternal and the other on the everyday.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020