eternal - use in sentences

Modifying Another Word

  • seemingly: Can contemporary jazz recover its vitality or has the seemingly eternal inspiration of jazz evaporated?
  • not: Men say, and devils may say, and teach men to say - No; not eternal.
  • just: So it was not just eternal politics, but out of focus too.
  • then: If God has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of his Son then eternal life begins now.
  • so: Really, what makes the Dolls so eternal is the attitude - it got into rock's water supply and never left.
  • n't: They are n't eternal, they aren't natural.

Modifies a noun

  • damnation: Gone is the fear of eternal damnation, the weariness of working for heaven.
  • destiny: Our eternal destiny is going to depend on that.
  • salvation: In his resurrection is our hope of eternal salvation.
  • glory: We love you forever, risen Lord of eternal glory.
  • torment: The doctrine of eternal torment turns John 3:16 completely on its head.
  • punishment: We don't have to face eternal punishment in hell.

Used with adjective complement

  • spring: So hope springs eternal, at least on the gray hair front.
  • remain: Those ideas of exploring, fighting and befriending have evolved, but the thrill of discovery remains eternal.
  • create: We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed.

Preposition: in

  • heaven: I personally believe that the Temples of the Mysteries are not houses made with hands, but are eternal in the heavens.
  • reality: So how could you come up then with a view that said salvation is eternal in reality but temporary in experience?

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