How to Use finite in a Sentence

finite

adjective

• The Warriors have a finite amount of time to make a lot of changes.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
• My job as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns is finite.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 15 June 2022
• And here’s the key: light travels through space at a finite speed.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2023
• And for the type of gear Russia needs, there are a finite number of sources.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
• There’s a finite number of slots, and all are up for changes and trades.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2020
• The work is finite, and in time the life of the psyche is resolved and turns back to normal.
  — Mark Edmundson, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• My point is this: Though time is finite, it can still be bought and sold.
  — Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2019
• Time is finite in the NBA, and the Pacers current core doesn’t have a ton of time left.
  — Tony East, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• There were reasons to keep finite money out of the state.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 9 Aug. 2023
• And there is only a finite amount of space and outlets to get your client in.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 May 2022
• The one saving grace is that there’s a finite number of them.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• The book posits that there are two types of games: finite and infinite.
  — Emily Heller, Vox, 23 Apr. 2018
• And the amount of money the government can spend on health care is finite.
  — Sally C. Pipes, Fortune, 10 July 2018
• And in this system, there are a finite number of units.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• The players, meanwhile, live in a far more finite world.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
• Even the world’s most beloved wrestler only spends a finite amount of time performing in the ring.
  — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 10 July 2019
• But looking back at Earth from there, the atmosphere seems thin and the world finite.
  — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• These were [a mix of] finite state machines and switch controllers.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 1 July 2024
• The sounds are finite, yet the benefits of tuning in to the film’s wavelengths are endless.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
• And consumers have finite resources to pay for all these things.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 23 Sep. 2020
• Kerr: Must find a way to break teams down in smaller, more finite areas in the final third.
  — Edwin Perez, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2021
• And that means the number of available numbers is finite.
  — Catharine Hamm, latimes.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• The black hole has no finite size, but there is this abstract size of the event horizon, which is the last point that light can escape.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• The machine is controlled by a finite set of rules and starts on an initial sequence of symbols on the tape.
  — Jie Wang, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
• And some of them will be fighting for the same finite pool of resources that might go to a job guarantee plan.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Apr. 2018
• Some folks see everything as a finite pie—there’s only so much of it to go around.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• The Paris climate goals mean the world has to stay within a finite carbon budget.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
• The Paris climate goals mean the world has to stay within a finite carbon budget.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
• Astronomers can measure the history of the universe from our vantage point in the present because light travels at a finite speed.
  — Ashley Ross, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025
• For any closed, compact surface — that is, a surface that is finite in diameter and has a distinct inside and outside — mean curvature flow is destined to lead to a singularity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025