What's the difference between forever and whenever?

Forever


Definition:

  • (adv.) Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.
  • (adv.) At all times; always.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (2) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
  • (3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (4) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
  • (5) Somehow, despite all this, the Obama administration thinks it can “destroy” Isis, though, as the Post noted , the US government has not been able to destroy al-Qaida or any terrorist group in the last decade “through two wars, thousands of drone strikes and hundreds of covert operations around the world.” The only question now is how far this Forever War against Isis goes.
  • (6) That would be the biggest mistake in education policy - probably forever.
  • (7) He has a lot of love for United because his heart was there for six years, but now he’s only thinking about Real Madrid and he’s going to stay here forever.
  • (8) Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?” It is there to remind him that the dots are worth fighting for.
  • (9) For a time it did indeed appear as though Manning was destined to follow the same path as Marino – his great idol – remembered as one of the all-time greats but forever haunted over his failure to win a Super Bowl.
  • (10) Family First senator Bob Day said: “This week will probably change politics forever, because it’ll be a time unprecedented when the Coalition gets into bed with the Greens to wipe out the crossbench, the minor parties and the independents.
  • (11) Speaking on the red carpet before the performance, Gaga said she was proud to be singing songs from a film that “changed music forever and changed the film industry”.
  • (12) "We could be forever caught up in NHS politics, get bogged down and be left with an uncertain future," said Bridge.
  • (13) Jim Carrey, his Batman Forever co-star, said he “scared the hell out of me”.
  • (14) Thomas brings Khalil and his forever-changed friend Starr back to life in resplendent color.
  • (15) "You cannot have a situation where exam passes continue rising forever and ever without there being in some subjects at some points grades either falling or steadying or changing – it's just in the nature of things that inevitably there will be alterations," Gove said.
  • (16) Former president Joyce Banda published a blistering press release in 2013 saying the singer “wants Malawi to be forever chained to the obligation of gratitude” for adopting children from the country, and excoriating her for expecting the government to roll out “a red carpet and blast the 21-gun salute” in honour of her visits.
  • (17) Although we will all miss her beyond belief, we absolutely know she will live in our hearts forever.” Courtney Boyle, 19 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Courtney Boyle Boyle’s family confirmed she had been killed with her stepfather, Philip Tron, in Monday’s terrorist attack.
  • (18) Adele will be following in the shoes of Shirley Bassey (who sang the themes to Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker), Tina Turner ( GoldenEye ) and Madonna (Die Another Day).
  • (19) But as Kathimerini.com reports, the plan is to definitely to lease the islands, not sell them forever: The fund reviewed 562 of the estimated 6,000 islands and islets under Greek sovereignty.
  • (20) Perhaps another is pop's forever-long obsession with watching women, as if they're ants on a hot patio and you're the boy with the magnifying glass.

Whenever


Definition:

  • (adv. & conj.) At whatever time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
  • (2) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
  • (3) The data show that whenever the two half components correspond to different RTs, the resulting RT equates that of the faster component.
  • (4) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
  • (5) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
  • (6) From the findings of this study the authors recommend wide excision of colorectal smooth-muscle tumours whenever there is a suggestion of malignancy.
  • (7) Adrenal tissue should be preserved whenever possible.
  • (8) The unmarried men won 8-1, showing that being married doesn't mean you can score whenever you like.
  • (9) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
  • (10) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
  • (11) Nurses face their own fear of death whenever they come to the bedside of a dying patient.
  • (12) Whenever the univariate analysis achieved statistical significance, a multivariate analysis was performed by means of a multiple correlation and regression study in accordance with the Cox's model, in which the variables were expressed in a binary model.
  • (13) The prognostic factors were combined with an index that can be used to update prognosis whenever changes occur in the clinical status of a patient during the course of the disease.
  • (14) The authors conclude that, whenever feasible, noninvasive clinical assessment of tumor response should be supplemented by surgical-pathologic evaluation.
  • (15) We conclude that the PCR technique is of great value in the identification of leukemic clones whenever specific molecular markers are present.
  • (16) Due to the better understanding of the therapeutic sequelae, particularly following radiotherapy, this modality is avoided whenever possible in young children.
  • (17) Whenever adipose tissue is obtained, the blood compartment should also be sampled and the relationship reported.
  • (18) Literature studies and the results of the present study indicate that CT-guided or ultrasound-guided techniques should be preferred in coeliac plexus block whenever the facilities are available.
  • (19) As in these subjects, the pretherapeutic evaluation must be complete whenever surgery seems to be possible, but special attention must be paid to the cardiovascular system.
  • (20) Patients were managed by a team of burn surgeons at each unit and early excision and grafting was used whenever possible in deep partial-thickness and full-thickness burns.