(n.) Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
(n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
(2) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
(3) In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth.
(4) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
(5) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
(6) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
(7) In each of his creative capacities, he was the eternal quiet man.
(8) Even Alec – eternally hard to please where his own work was concerned – loved it.
(9) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
(10) Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn Read more “But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe .
(11) They call it, rather unsurprisingly, the eternal flame.
(12) They were created on the basis that, whatever the cost, there are some eternal values that are worth upholding in a civilised society.
(13) He has taken the legacy of postwar abstract expressionism, and allied to that a deep love of the great eternal themes of the classical world.
(14) Murray said: "I'm eternally grateful to Ivan for all his hard work over the past two years, the most successful of my career so far.
(15) I am not sure that a lucrative career in rape gags is more helpful than a failed one, but the rape hum seems eternal.
(16) Ras proteins are membrane-associated transducers of eternal stimuli to unknown intracellular targets.
(17) One, Baroness O'Cathain, has said, in relation to politics and her evangelism: "For me it is a guarantee of eternal peace."
(18) Committed to eliminating the budget deficit by the end of next year, it just does not have the cash to fund, for example, big new infrastructure projects like an eternally proposed (and eternally postponed) bridge over the Straits of Messina.
(19) François Bayrou must have resigned himself to being the eternal also-ran of French presidential elections, by now.
(20) To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful.
Yonks
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 'Once upon a yonk, Radios 1 and 2 were populated by truly great DJs and people listened to 'em.
(2) Lorna Tilbian, executive director and head of media at stockbroker Numis who has known Fairhead for "yonks", said: "There's real northern grit there, which is unusual in the industry.
(3) The mini ones are only £20 and they last for yonks and I've never met anyone who wasn't pleased to get a Baies Diptyque candle.
(4) The most eagerly awaited 50-over warm-up game in yonks takes place today.
(5) "You can tell your mate that me and my boys (aged 10 and six, since you ask) got the Paraguay team sticker yonks ago," brags Haydon Bambury.
(6) Eavis has described booking "the three biggest bands in the world", and one headliner is "an American artist" – fans speculate about Madonna – "that I've been wanting for years and yonks, and yonks".
(7) With Cameron and Boris it is a rivalry going back yonks.” Downing Street remained aloof from the announcement and was avoiding the temptation to highlight Johnson’s many pronouncements in favour of the EU.