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How to use immortality in a sentence

32 example sentences · noun

Immortality means never dying. Example: “In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.”

Examples of immortality by meaning

nounNever dying.

  • In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.
  • Falling in love was a mere physical triviality, like warm sun or cool water, beside this divine hope of immortality: "I continue."1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 4

nounBeing remembered forever.

  • Immortality beckons if he does it.2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with immortality

  • Physical immortality on the polluted planet, where poverty still exists, is meaningless.2019, Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook, Springer, →ISBN, page 853. From the entry equalism
  • When Giamatti goes over the top, he transcends Everyman shmuckiness and attains acting immortality.2004 October 25, David Denby, “Drinking and Driving”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry shmuckiness
  • Helder was also a visionary given to muddled, passionate harangues on immortality, astral projection and other esoterica.2002 May 20, “Luke Helder's Bad Trip”, in Time. From the entry esoterica
  • First there was the bad news about cloning, the genetic path to immortality.2002 January 11, Ellen Goodman, “Mind Over Muscle”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry sheephood
  • All are contained in a kind of metamarket that peddles, basically, immortality.1988, Kevin McMahon, Arctic Twilight, →ISBN. From the entry metamarket
  • Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do.1983, Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, published 2022, page 225. From the entry derring-do
  • To achieve immortality, Dionysos had to pass through the undergloom.2015, Spencer Clevenger, Greek Mythic History. From the entry undergloom
  • Cloning body parts was again just man's search for immortality riding on the back of naive altruistic medicinal benevolence.2006, Adair Broughton, Crossing the Bridge of Infinity, page 40. From the entry a bridge too far
  • The journey involved a quest for the mysterious Avalon, the Apple Isle — home of immortality and hidden wisdom.2002, Sheena Morgan, The Real Halloween: Ritual and Magic for the New Millennium, page 67. From the entry Apple Isle
  • If the definition of a "God" has something to do with immortality and transcendence, then Robert Plant fits the bill.1993 December, Kenneth Ritchie, letter to the editor, Spin, page 26. From the entry Ledhead
  • Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth.1983, Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, published 2022, page 225. From the entry derring-do
  • Li Shao-chün not only promised the Emperor immortality after seeing P'eng-lai, but he said that he himself had been to P'eng-lai.1966, Holmes Welch, Taoism: The Parting of the Way, Beacon Press, page 101. From the entry P'eng-lai
  • The concept of God and immortality is for him a guaranty of this eternal difference between right and wrong.1945, René Wellek, “The Philosophical Basis of Masaryk’s Political Ideals” in Ethics LV, № 4 (July 1945), page 299, right column. From the entry guaranty
  • If ever a U.S. horse attains the immortality of Bellerophon's Pegasus or Don Quixote's Rosinante, surely it will be Samuel D.1942 March 30, “Big Red's 25th”, in Time, retrieved 18 Jul 2015. From the entry three score and ten
  • He was haunted, it seems, by the symbol of a Prometheus wearied of his immortality of anguish,— by the tedium vitae.1922, Isaac Goldberg, Brazilian Literature, New York: A.A. Knopf, page 154. From the entry taedium vitae
  • It’s a monkey’s paw of a legacy, to have birthed an immortal gastronomic titan but not to have attained immortality of one’s own.2017 October 11, Helen Rosner, “What Le Cirque Will Be Remembered For”, in The New Yorker. From the entry monkey's paw
  • Her favourite animal is Feng-huang, the Chinese phoenix which is the personification of the primordial force of the heavens and the symbol of immortality.2016, Pamela Ball, “The Physical Practice of Tao”, in The Essence of Tao, London: Arcturus Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172. From the entry feng-huang
  • So great was his dread of even a natural death that he was forever seeking through Daoist practitioners the secret of immortality.1999, Michael Sullivan, “The Qin and Han Dynasties”, in The Arts of China, 4th, Expanded and Revised edition, Berkeley; Los Angeles…. From the entry Mount Penglai
  • The meeting of Venus with Phoebe distinguishes her roles: the business of Venus in her pandemic form is to ensure the immortality of the kinds.1967, Frank Kermode, “World Without End or Beginning”, in The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (The Mary Flexner…. From the entry pandemic
  • A long shot, it may be, at immortality, but longer ones have hit; or Guido Fawkes, William Tell, and Samuel Pepys were forgotten now.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry were
  • The Weltansicht of this poem is a distinct vantage for an appreciation of the scientific man's attitude toward the specific question of immortality.1905, The Bookman, volume 21, page 521. From the entry Weltansicht
  • He is free from the chain of transmigration and enjoys a conscious and happy immortality in ‘Jodo’,—that is, in the Pure Land.1901, R.L. Halsey, The Religion of Japan & the Present Attitude of the Japanese, page 13. From the entry jodo
  • His theme was “What is Your Problem?” Merritt explained that the “third heaven” was where God lived and it was where one ascends to if one receives immortality.2017 March 31, Arlene Edmonds, “Local churches host Howard choir”, in AP News, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023. From the entry Third Heaven
  • Presented with a selection like this, you’ll no doubt agree with critic (and caseophile) Clifton Fadiman, who wisely said that cheese is “milk’s leap toward immortality.”1998, Bon Appétit, volume 43, page 103. From the entry caseophile
  • True, they in the end give the droll his immortality, but they can be a terrible affliction in the meantime to those who would live by undumpishing.1942–3, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, A Word in Your Ear; And, Just Another Word, published 1963, page 63. From the entry undumpish
  • The tortoise, possessing, like the serpent, the power of retaining life in its limbs after mutilation or decapitation, became a symbol of androgynity as well as of immortality.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the…. From the entry decapitation
  • Full of towering peaks, mysterious caves, and gushing waterfalls--and closely associated with the quest for physical immortality--Penglai was the frequent subject of artistic fantasies, such as the painting seen here.n.d., “The Palaces and Gate Towers of Penglai”, in Smithsonian Institution, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2025. From the entry Penglai
  • In short, if we imagine a person continuing to live indefinitely while remaining vulnerable to such evils as disease, injury, and aging, we are in effect imagining a struldbruggian immortality.2002, Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. From the entry struldbruggian
  • It is the strongest desire that can come to a man - if it comes to him at all - stronger even than love or the desire for personal immortality.1905, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter 7, in Where Angels Fear to Tread, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC. From the entry desire

Meaning of immortality

  1. noun Never dying.
  2. noun Being remembered forever.

Full definition of immortality

Questions about immortality in a sentence

How do you use immortality in a sentence?
Immortality is used as a noun. For example: “In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.”
What is a short sentence with immortality?
“Immortality beckons if he does it.”
What does immortality mean?
Immortality means never dying.

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