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eon - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- time: There has been fighting in the Middle East for eons of time.
- history: The rocks of both sharing in common the eons of history that have passed since their birthing.
Converse of object
- take: Fossils, coal deposits, petroleum deposits, all of them took immense eons to form.
- seem: It seemed eons since she and Alex had sat for hours at dinner and chatted about the things that were important to them.
- wait: It was captured by Saturn's gravitational field and has been waiting eons for Cassini to come along.
- start: What happened to the dandelions, violets, thistle and stuff I started eons ago?
Adjective modifier
- Proterozoic: Symbiosis in Cell Evolution: Microbial Communities in the Archean and Proterozoic Eons, second edition.
- Hadean: Earth condenses from the hot gases of the Solar Nebula... January to early March: Hadean eon.
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