INFINITY in a Sentence

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For INFINITY, below is one of 13 sentences:
To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, with the infinity on high, is called praying.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFINITY
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infinity
 n.  unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity
Classic Sentence:
1  History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
2  To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, with the infinity on high, is called praying.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—PRAYER
3  Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
4  When he was alone he tapped-tapped-tapped on a typewriter, to infinity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  I let him take them, therefore, from the hiding-place, and so saved myself an infinity of trouble.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
6  They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
7  There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
8  Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
9  He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
Example Sentence:
1  By the way, it's wrong to think a single individual can overtake a population of size infinity in finite time.
2  From where I stood I could see a huge beam of projected light flooding up into infinity from the reactor.
3  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
4  Theoretically, a line can extend into infinity.