How to Use eventual in a Sentence

eventual

adjective
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  • The eventual result will be the same: Fires too big to put out.
    — Thomas Hoenig, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
  • What must the eventual starter demonstrate in order to earn the job?
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The ones who stick around will share in your eventual success.
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • This will be the eventual fate of our own sun, and solar system.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • That ended when the New York Yankees chased him in the third inning of an eventual 10-7 loss to the Yankees.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 May 2023
  • Nor does there seem to be much progress in planning for an eventual handoff of the Baikonur project to Kazakhstan.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The song climbed to No. 4 the prior month, becoming P!nk’s first career top five hit (of an eventual eight to date).
    — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2023
  • If the Senate gets 60 votes to break a filibuster, the bill is on a glidepath to eventual passage.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • However, the club fell 2-1 to the eventual champions and her new club Gotham FC.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Tillman followed orders and sat out the rest of a 66-14 win en route to an eventual CCS title.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The eventual reveal of what Harry’s project is pretty much says it all.
    — Will Harris, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Tambe, the eventual 3A state singles champion, jumped out to a 2-0 lead and had three break points on Selvan to increase the lead.
    — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
  • In the meantime, the lender uses the car as collateral to secure the loan until the eventual payoff.
    — Ashley Donohoe, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2023
  • O’Connor sang from a young age, forming the band Ton Ton Macoute in her teens, which led to her eventual solo career.
    — Vulture, 26 July 2023
  • To me, these are details that need to be shared—and not just as a dramatic prelude to the eventual happy ending.
    — Ron Shaich, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In Game 4, his wrist shot from the left circle on a feed from Rodrigues was the first of three unanswered goals in Florida’s eventual 3-2 win.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 May 2024
  • Dempster’s eventual successor will have quite a bit of work to do.
    — Max Greenwood, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The seven justices in the state Supreme Court concurred with all or part of its ruling, though they were split on how and why the eventual conclusion was made.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Michallas came around from second to score the eventual winning run.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 13 May 2023
  • This becomes critical with eventual demise of gas sales and tax.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the big ones were the description of the camp and its layout, the train route characters took, and the number Sokolov tattooed onto his eventual wife’s arm.
    — Amber Dowling, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • In 2008, a weeks-long writers strike ended soon after a DGA deal laid the groundwork for the writers’ eventual agreement.
    — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • Six players return from the roster that was ousted by the eventual champion Newton North last year, and the Red Hawks are off to a 2-0 start.
    — Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Quite frankly, Booth’s eventual demise by the show’s finale is a relief from the constant rants and self-aggrandizing.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In contrast, Lagerfeld is first seen through the eyes of his eventual life companion Jacques de Bascher at a club.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 17 July 2024
  • The Bucks should benefit from the eventual return of Khris Middleton, who has missed five straight games with a sprained ankle.
    — Steve Megargee, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Emma's eventual career change to — and success as — a young adult author is uniform across the book, movie and series.
    — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But cellphone video of the episode that captured the minutes leading up to the shooting shows the eventual victim screaming threats and racist remarks at the second man.
    — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Much like the Broadway production, the movie serves as a prequel that displays the characters' friendship earlier in life and an eventual conflict that pulls them apart.
    — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Authorities have planned for the statues' eventual return to their original locations around the gate of the temple.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

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