How to Use eon in a Sentence

eon

noun
Definition of eonnext
  • In that sense, the game felt eons away from where this program was a year ago.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2018
  • For eons, the regular movements of the sun and moon have set the pace for all of life on Earth.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Water is in constant flux, while salt takes eons to move from place to place.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024
  • From a numbers standpoint, the region has its best chance in eons to end that drought.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Flu vaccine has a clear advantage, thanks to the fact it’s been around for eons.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Doesn't this look like a panel that's going to play but street rules, com eon.
    — Fox News, 28 June 2018
  • For eons, men and women have searched for plants or foods that could turn on desire.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
  • June, in the present, is eons away from handmaid’s training camp and from her mother.
    — refinery29.com, 2 May 2018
  • Don’t be tempted to dump it straight into a pot on the stove (or worse, microwave it for eons).
    — Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Despite the fancy name, this has been going on for eons.
    — Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 18 May 2024
  • Like Ayón, Black women and men around the world have used art as protest and reclamation for eons.
    — Marjua Estevez, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The burst had gone off in the heart of an ancient galaxy where star births and deaths (in the form of supernovas) had ceased eons ago.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, snakes are just one of more than 30 groups of lizards that each evolved away their legs separately over the eons.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2024
  • The days of record store browsing are eons gone; even the era of blogs being able to break an artist are solidly in the early aughts rearview.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The eon that followed, the Phanerozoic, is still going strong today.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2019
  • For the nation’s most eminent programs, such a shard of time is like an eon.
    — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2016
  • Are these 80-odd tools, eons more ancient than the ancient world, indeed art works?
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • For eons, the river was a wild, unpredictable force that shaped this landscape.
    — Janet Wilson, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That’s an eon in the fast-moving gadget world, and much has changed since Apple first revealed the device.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Ten miles across and 3,500 feet deep, it’s been carved out over eons by lava flows and water pouring down from the summit of Wai'ale'ale.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2018
  • With each brushstroke, grain by grain, they are transported back through the eons, as a distant lizard roars.
    — Mark Washburn, charlotteobserver, 25 May 2018
  • To visit Antarctica is to encounter forces that have shaped the fortunes of baleen whales across eons.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The Kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids who have been battling with the Kraken for eons.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • As sawgrass dies, the peat built up over eons starts to collapse, lowering the ground level.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Over eons, plant and animal remains (not to mention hominins) have been found in the caves.
    — Lydia Pyne, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Mark Kelly A week can feel like an eon in Washington, while six months passes in a flash.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 1 June 2023
  • For eons, the coin-size yellow toads led a charmed and secret life in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
  • That this has been continuing for eons is made loud and clear here, perhaps more than anywhere else in the world.
    — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The focus on oils isn’t exactly new; they’ve been praised and debated for eons.
    — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
  • And, for the first time in what seems like eons, there’s actual racing going on, with more than six different Grand Prix winners over the past seven Grand Prix races.
    — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 19 July 2024

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