eventuallye‧ven‧tu‧al‧ly /ɪˈventʃuəli, -tʃəli/ ●●● S1 W2 AWL adverb 
Examples
He eventually escaped and made his way back to England. Eventually, she got a job and moved to London.
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Eventually, the sky cleared up and we went to the beach.
- Seventy-two percent of people eventually found work, but mainly in low-paid service jobs.
- He eventually panicked and ran off as the boy screamed for help.
- If energy prices continued to rise it would be worrisome and eventually feed into broader inflation measures.
- The absence of unrelenting selling pressure may eventually stabilise land prices and stem the deterioration in balance sheets.
- The judge procrastinated, but eventually the tabloids had their sport.
- When Margy eventually went to court for her new shoplifting charge the judge gave her a probation order.
THESAURUS► finally/eventually/in the end
Collocations after a long time, especially when there have been difficulties or delays. In the end is used especially in spoken English: · After a lot of questioning, James finally admitted he had taken the car.· The plane eventually arrived at 6:30 – over three hours late.· In the end, I decided that the best thing to do was to ask Billy for help.
► at last used when something good happens after you have waited for it for a long time: · I’m really glad that Ken’s found a job at last.· At long last (=after a very long time)he was able to see his family again.
► after much ado often humorous after a long time and when there have been a lot of worries, problems, or delays: · After much ado, we moved into our new house last week.
Longman Language Activatortypes of film► finally/eventually/in the end after a long period of time, especially after a lot of difficulties or after a long delay: · After a lot of questioning, James finally admitted he had taken the car.· In the end, I decided that the best thing to do was to ask Billy for help.· The plane eventually arrived at 6:30 - over three hours late.
► at last use this when something good happens after you have waited for it for a long time: · I'm really glad that Ken's found a job at last.· At last the rain stopped and the players came back on the field.at long last (=after a very long time): · At long last he was able to see his family again.
► sooner or later if something is going to happen sooner or later , it will certainly happen but you do not know exactly when: · Sooner or later this would end up in the papers, and I would be out of a job.· I'm sure Brian will turn up sooner or later.· He is worried that sooner or later his business will fail.
► one day use this to say that something will happen at some time in the future, especially something that you hope will happen, although you do not know exactly when: · They're bound to find a cure for cancer one day.· I knew that we would meet again one day.· One day ordinary people will be able to travel in space.
► in time after a particular period of time, especially after a gradual process of change or development: · She started as an office junior, and in time became director of the whole company.· Jarvis was a strange man, but in time I got to like him.
► end up if someone or something ends up in a particular situation or condition, they eventually come to be in that situation or condition - use this especially about something bad that happens: · Forbes ended up in prison for not paying his taxes.· The sweater that my mum knitted ended up twice the size it should have been.end up doing something: · We ended up having to postpone our vacation.end up as: · Our chess game finally ended up as a draw.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► settle something finally/eventually
Word family· The case was finally settled by the Appeal Court.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► agree· It was eventually agreed that the company would be allowed an overdraft facility of £135,000, reducing to £120,000 after three weeks.· While suspicious that somehow management was trying to trick them, union officials eventually agreed to go along with the program.· The company eventually agreed to settle for $ 600, 000.· Fortunately Roy was only toying with me, eventually agreeing to participate in good spirit.· More studies were done and the carrier eventually agreed to pay $ 300, 000.· A £500,000 deal was eventually agreed to bring his scoring talents to the North-East.
► arrive· The prospect of eventually arriving at such a gruesomely underwhelming destination makes me determined to enjoy every moment on the train.· Yes, I know much of it does work and is done to improve whatever signal does eventually arrive at the house.· After some Ministry prevarication Tabakov eventually arrived, but only after the cast had assembled and with one day of rehearsal lost.· The Ouvéa made its way south, eventually arriving at Whangarei on 28 June.· Whatever the initial conditions, all trajectories will eventually arrive on the attractor.· Increasingly, the distinction is being blurred and fusion will eventually arrive in some form.· Nevertheless, the entertaining A44 through the Cotswolds is fun and I eventually arrive at the famous factory.· But he was uninterrupted in his journey, eventually arriving at a vantage point near the Monument.
► become· Raving and thrashing about, the victim becomes gradually weaker and, if lucky, may eventually become unconscious.· It was a three-part story, and eventually became another book.· Iron boats eventually became cheaper to build as the technology for iron production improved.· Become a lion tamer? Eventually become emperor?· First, older people do not form an exclusive group, but one of which every individual will eventually become a member.· Gentry eventually became planning director and assistant to the city manager for special projects, before leaving city employment in 1987.· She won, and eventually became party leader.· The deposits eventually become pressed under sedimentary weight into stone.
► bring· Ironically, it would be Cats that would eventually bring his first marriage to an end.· The relentless push and pull of coevolutionary life eventually brings into its game the abiotic stuff of the universe.· Male speaker I agree, and I hope Gloucestershire will eventually bring in a legal budget.· The fish that originally sold for a penny eventually brought 5000 rupees.· If we pumped long enough we could eventually bring the potentiometric surface below the top of the aquifer.· It would eventually bring him untold riches.
► come· Most students find that the first job does eventually come along, and even that elusive Equity card is attainable.· But I did learn things about people and eventually came into my own socially.· A few phone calls later we confirmed that surface-emitting lasers would eventually come down to the size and efficiency required.· The conversation eventually came around to what I was currently working on.· Good may eventually come out of evil.· Then Thornton went back home to Arkansas, but eventually came back to try again.· As it continues to expand the speed drops and the expansion eventually comes to a halt.· In fact, as Steves eventually came to realize, they were seeing things that often elude travelers who spend far more.
► decide· Nothing much happens, and you eventually decide to cut.· The city eventually decided that ambulance service, street sweeping, and maintenance of median strips were better handled by public employees.· He decided eventually that to embrace Buddhism would be to plunge into a world too culturally alien.· But many eventually decided to set up offices outside their homes.· She decided eventually on slices of melon, the kind that was red inside with black seeds ....· To help him resolve it, he brought in General Joseph McNarney, who eventually decided on a middle way.· Perhaps it was just purple eye-shadow lavishly applied, he decided eventually.· He eventually decided against this but did move to take unnecessary letters out of many words.
► die· We know that all of us will eventually die from disease, natural disaster, accidents or whatever.· The voluntary muscles begin to twitch uncontrollably and eventually die off.· When he eventually died, Alexander built a city in Bucephalus' honour and died himself shortly afterwards.· The black farming colonies eventually died out.· The patient described by Boustany etal had a cytochrome c oxidase deficiency and a long illness before she eventually died of peritonitis.· Since there is no cure, the others are expected to also eventually die from their disease.· He eventually dies in the ambulance, on the way to a hospital that isn't closed.· If the algae do not return, the reefs will stop growing and eventually die.
► end· I feel angry because I know even this war will eventually end.· This bull market will end, as every bull market eventually ends.· The Ouse takes a slow and meandering course eastwards ending eventually at the Wash.· Then Conley got mixed up with Charlie Keating and somehow lost millions of dollars, eventually ending up bankrupt.· The firm reckons that discounters will eventually end up cannibalising each other's market share rather than damaging the bigger chains.· But like all cycles, this one will eventually end.
► fall· Strategic ambiguity has its uses, but a policy of temporizing may eventually fall short.· He captured a beautiful woman, who, although his prisoner, eventually fell in love with him.· They became friendly and eventually fell in love.· Because of the problems with false prophecy, the gift of prophecy itself eventually fell into disuse and sometimes disrepute.· She eventually fell in love with a lawyer, but her father objected to this match.· Without the 400, 000-gallon-a-day operation, the ship-shaped center could eventually fall into the bay.· All the work eventually fell on Gavin shoulders.· Left alone, even the most troublesome among us will eventually fall over dead.
► find· As I think I said, such noises as I have experienced have eventually found explanations.· Slowly she replaced the receiver, wondering why did the past always eventually find you-sometime?· By now over 70 elements have been identified in the stars, and no doubt the remainder will be found eventually.· By this means, if there is a proof, we shall eventually find it somewhere along the list.· Yeadon had eventually found the King Pot inlet back in 1986.· Iron Arrow eventually found itself dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.· A donor was eventually found and Sally's battle to live goes on.· Everything he had said I found eventually in written form.
► force· Diehard optimists, like Mr Pynzenyk, say that hyperinflation and economic collapse will eventually force the country to its senses.· Rising public outrage eventually forced Intel to reverse its policy and offer replacement chips to anyone who wanted one.· However, the market women received enormous popular support and the municipal government was eventually forced to capitulate.· Officials expect the plan will eventually force illegal immigrants to use routes outside the 66-mile San Diego sector.· It was eventually forced to reinstate them.· Court orders and other government actions eventually forced desegregation of both.· Barschel was eventually forced to resign and committed suicide.· The giggling spread like wildfire, and eventually forced the closing of some schools.
► get· The hospital telephonist eventually gets hold of the surgical registrar.· Within a year, he eventually got the proto-reef soup headed in the right direction.· But things did get eventually get better.· We eventually got our way, but the negotiations took so long it set us back a whole year.· They eventually got them off me with baby oil, and almost took my fingers with them.· The founders eventually got their wish.· But it never amounts to much and eventually gets damped out by the frame.· Keep breaking the project down until you eventually get to an easily managed series of individual tasks.
► lead· This can have the effect of accelerating the build-up of atheroma which in turn eventually leads to heart disease.· This memory was the spark that eventually led to the deal.· Marx believed that the following aspects of capitalist society would eventually lead to the proletariat developing into a class for itself.· His embrace of recorded music over live performances would eventually lead to a shift in the role of records on radio.· This creates debates which eventually lead to action.· But in your case at least you know that all the hard work will eventually lead to something out of the ordinary.· Such abilities and equipment gave them the opportunity to make the big evolutionary breakthrough which eventually lead to Homosapiens.
► leave· He would become so uncomfortable that he would eventually leave the table and make some more coffee!· Finding no evidence, the investigators eventually left.· He eventually left his boat and was able to grab one breath of air before being forced down.· That will eventually leave a few very big players with even more clout.· Brecker eventually left the group, which carried on under Mike Mainieri's leader ship.· A scientific conception seems demeaning because nothing is eventually left for which autonomous man can take credit.· But it soon became evident who was the quicker and Somervail eventually left all the racing to Jim.· We eventually left seven hours later with our ears ringing.
► lose· They eventually lost that game although the 3-1 scoreline doesn't tell the full story of bad luck and missed chances.· The injured soldier eventually loses the sight of his eye.· Current drugs can slow the disease but eventually lose their effectiveness.· A dominant party can eventually lose support and become a competitor in a multiparty system.· If you do not take these precautions, you may eventually lose some irreplaceable programs or data.· How did the problematic modern assumptions eventually lose their power to convince after several hundred years of dominance?· If you continue to work without leaving, you will eventually lose your right to claim constructive dismissal.· A lot of times, teams are making multiplayer deals for guys you think you may eventually lose to expansion anyway.
► reach· The ironwork was cast in Dudley by Benjamin Gibbon and transported by water, eventually reaching the banks of the Stroudwater canal.· You eventually reach an Origin technician.· As the winding current is increased, however, the flux density in the iron eventually reaches its saturation level.· If this macroscopic change altered the microscopic laws, these laws would eventually reach a form capable of supporting an H-theorem.· Once you eventually reach the products the nightmare begins to fade.· His case eventually reached the U.S.· They eventually reach her via the markets in Liverpool.· The effect eventually reaches every business and every individual in the society, not just those involved in international commerce.
► return· Generally speaking, racing / homing pigeons will eventually return home.· They then migrate into the lymphoid tissue and eventually return to the blood circulation.· Most of them eventually return to the company, however.· Natural resources that are extracted or harvested to power our economy must eventually return to nature.· Their power is given but never owned, and they must eventually return to the One who gives it.· The drawing suggests that an apparently normal decision eventually returns the decider to his starting point.· He helps the oppressed and is eventually returned to Parliament.
► settle· This larva eventually settles down on a rock, usually chalk or limestone, and grows the two valves of its shell.· His epileptic client eventually settled his case against the company for a confidential amount.· I suppose I could have settled eventually to general practice or applied to any of the hospitals.· The firm eventually settled on a strategy of attempting to focus public attention on its superior sales staff and customer service.· With their young daughters, Lydia and Josephine, they eventually settled in Oxford.· All of these strikes were eventually settled, by varying combinations of concessions, punishments, and threats.· It eventually settles down on the bottom of the sea and grows into a tiny flower-like organism called a polyp.· His mind wanders from one small thing to another, eventually settling on the future Mrs Blue.
► take· John Hayward remembers well the breakthrough on the case which he eventually took over.· Bob eventually took a different union assignment that would allow him to spend the time needed to lead change with John.· Don't knock it in with your chin. 4 in hand or Windsor knot - though latter eventually took over.· Kirton first achieved coaching prominence in London and, on his return to New Zealand, eventually took over the Wellington side.· Professor Marsh eventually took almost five hundred ton-sized wooden boxes of bones from the Como Bluff quarries.· They argued that development would eventually take the Third World through its own demographic transition to low rates of death and birth.· The government eventually took over Great Life Savings in 1990.
► turn· It was like all that ego-building which eventually turns into a monster.· Suffice it to say that the whisper eventually turned into a shout and the five-foot pile of dirt was reduced considerably.· I was not ready to become the care-taker of another living thing which would, like me, eventually turn futile.· Then I took a rest that eventually turned into a nap.
► win· The game went into extra time with Hereford eventually winning four three on penalties.· Bollaert eventually won, and they returned to the Bay of Along on June 8, 1948.· And Caroline Strong gives a full account of the innocence and sadness of a loser who eventually wins.· Elstead eventually won an exciting final 2-0.· The President he himself deposed, Milton Obote, eventually wins power.· But she tones down her performance as the show progresses and one is eventually won over.
WORD FAMILYnouneventnon-eventeventualityuneventfulnessadjectiveeventful ≠ uneventfuleventualadverbeventfully ≠ uneventfullyeventually
after a long time, or after a lot of things have happened: He eventually escaped and made his way back to England. Eventually, she got a job and moved to London.