Definition of perpetually in English:
perpetually
adverb pəˈpɛtjʊəlipərˈpɛtʃuəli
In a way that never ends or changes; constantly.
perpetually hungry teenage boys
she seems perpetually to have a mournful look on her face
Example sentencesExamples
- He keeps the focus perpetually on the spinning basketball, accentuating its heroic appeal.
- Happy to be the guinea pig, he is perpetually remodeling his house.
- Hers is a universe of pampered, good-looking delicate people who appear perpetually malcontent in the face of privilege.
- Curiously, his apartment seems to be perpetually cast in shadows.
- His work is perpetually aggravating.
- Orwell shows how words become their opposite in the hands of the perpetually braying party line.
- In his analyses, the rubric becomes a sort of mystical triangle whose terms seem perpetually to transmute into one another.
- It's neither new nor revolutionary for a motion picture to be presented from the point-of-view of someone who is perpetually stoned.
- Their weird, unpredictable nature makes them appear to have sprung from a perpetually opened Pandora's box.
- To be perpetually supported by government also means a certain amount of kowtowing, which is limiting for anyone.
Definition of perpetually in US English:
perpetually
adverbpərˈpeCHo͞oəlēpərˈpɛtʃuəli
In a way that never ends or changes; constantly.
perpetually hungry teenage boys
she seems perpetually to have a mournful look on her face
Example sentencesExamples
- He keeps the focus perpetually on the spinning basketball, accentuating its heroic appeal.
- To be perpetually supported by government also means a certain amount of kowtowing, which is limiting for anyone.
- Hers is a universe of pampered, good-looking delicate people who appear perpetually malcontent in the face of privilege.
- Their weird, unpredictable nature makes them appear to have sprung from a perpetually opened Pandora's box.
- Orwell shows how words become their opposite in the hands of the perpetually braying party line.
- In his analyses, the rubric becomes a sort of mystical triangle whose terms seem perpetually to transmute into one another.
- Happy to be the guinea pig, he is perpetually remodeling his house.
- His work is perpetually aggravating.
- It's neither new nor revolutionary for a motion picture to be presented from the point-of-view of someone who is perpetually stoned.
- Curiously, his apartment seems to be perpetually cast in shadows.