PERMANENT in a Sentence

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The five permanent members of the Security Council will now share the task of making an early assessment of the declaration.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERMANENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
permanent
 a.  lasting for a long time or for ever; remaining without change
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  permanent associations, possessing large capital, and.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI — HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS T...
2  There were many limitations attached to the powers thus granted, and the organization was made permanent.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
3  The bill which finally passed enlarged and made permanent the Freedmen's Bureau.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
4  The foundations of knowledge in this race, as in others, must be sunk deep in the college and university if we would build a solid, permanent structure.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
5  As a result of this, the Legislature designated three cities to be voted upon by the citizens of the state as the permanent seat of government.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
6  Charleston was successful in winning the prize, and is now the permanent seat of government.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
7  The night-school at Hampton, which started with only twelve students, now numbers between three and four hundred, and is one of the permanent and most important features of the institution.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
8  After making a careful examination of the place, it seemed to be just the location that we wanted in order to make our work effective and permanent.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
9  The wrong to the Negro is temporary, but to the morals of the white man the injury is permanent.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
10  He had foreseen an immediate demand for money, but not a permanent drain on his scant resources.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  It was when Uncle Henry was giving her an account of her property that he broached the matter of her permanent residence in Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  It was hard to realize that Atlanta and not Tara was her permanent home now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  Even at the moment of marriage, she had not given a thought to the fact that the price she was paying for the safety of home was permanent exile from it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  He had meant to keep free from permanent ties, not from any poverty of feeling, but because, in a different way, he was, as much as Lily, the victim of his environment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
15  It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  He gave up a permanent job in order to freelance.
17  The superiority and inferiority of PM machine is closely related with the function parameter of permanent magnet material which is being used.
18  This policy could isolate the country from the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
19  Any limitation to the king's power could be permanent.
20  I refer specifically to permanent residents, in contradistinction to temporary visitors.
21  He is considering ways' to develop exhibitions beyond the permanent collection that will relate to different sectors of the population.
22  He wanted to put their relationship on a permanent footing.
23  He was in a state of permanent depression.
24  She is looking for a permanent place to stay.
25  Don't make a permanent decision for your temporary emotion.
26  The five permanent members of the Security Council will now share the task of making an early assessment of the declaration.
27  The Organization Man survives as a modern classic because it captures a permanent part of our social condition.
28  The indelible ink left a permanent mark on my shirt.
29  She already has drawn 5 tattoos upon her body as well as this neck permanent skin stain is 6th one.
30  After the seeds germinate and develop their permanent leaves, the plants may be removed from the cold frames and transplanted to the garden.