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How to use permanently in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Permanently means in a permanent manner; lastingly. Example: “He will take over the job permanently when the accountant retires.”

Examples of permanently by meaning

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  • Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement.2018 November 13, Matthew Robinson and Lianne Kolirin, “The world has just redefined the kilogram”, in CNN

More sentences with permanently

  • He will take over the job permanently when the accountant retires.From the entry take over
  • In the current era of global warming, Mount Kilimanjaro is no longer permanently snow-capped.From the entry snow-capped
  • Much of the southern part of the Weddell Sea is permanently covered by the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf.From the entry Weddell Sea
  • The trauma had permanently warped her mind.From the entry warp
  • They're planning to recap those oil wells permanently.From the entry recap
  • You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.From the entry probation
  • “She loves a drink, she loves a joint, she’s permanently on heat.2025 November 28, Hollie Richardson, “Oh yes he is! Kiefer Sutherland dives into the world of panto”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry panto
  • As a punishment, Zhemao and her affiliated accounts were suspended permanently.2022 July 13, Rachel Cheung, “A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia”, in Vice, archived from the…. From the entry separate the wheat from the chaff
  • Harringay: The station booking office has been permanently closed, after it was declared structurally unsafe.2022 April 20, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern”, in RAIL, number 955, page 30. From the entry structurally
  • I feel my age and supposed status mean I am permanently required to be in presidential mode.2016 November 20, Stewart Lee, “No more schmoozing with the enemy on TV shows”, in The Guardian. From the entry presidential
  • She's missing hair at her sides, as if a saddle has long rubbed her permanently raw.2016, C. E. Morgan, The Sport of Kings, page 199. From the entry momentful
  • Spirit Airlines, for instance, uses seats on some flights with the backrest permanently set back three inches.2013 December 22, Jad Mouawad, Martha C. White, New York Times, retrieved 23 Dec 2013. From the entry smush
  • Making a virtue out of necessity, they invented a dynamics that would permanently confine quarks within particles.2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the…. From the entry quark
  • They are now completely independent of the mother and leave her permanently after a week or so.2012, Robert B. McCormack, A Guide to Australia's Spiny Freshwater Crayfish, page 47. From the entry cray
  • I also wish to forthput my vote to ban permanently anyone that does this.2011, Regarding the recent update - 4* and 5* binding (Dev response)forums.spiralknights.com. From the entry forthput
  • Finally they permanently merge in a ritual known commonly as screwing.”2010 April 14, Daniel Powell & Greg White, “Treegasm” (1:54 from the start), in Ugly Americans, season 1, episode 5. From the entry treeture
  • Mayor John Rhodes has declared the rally officially and permanently canceled.2009 May 3, Robbie Brown, “A Motorcycle Rally Revs Up, Though It’s No Longer Welcome”, in New York Times. From the entry antirally
  • "Not in the sense that it looks different, or that it isn't pretty much permanently full.2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo. From the entry go down the khazi
  • Platannas are found almost permanently in water and can remain submerged for hours without needing to surface.2008, Rael Loon, Hidden Wonders: The Small 5005 of Southern Africa, Insects, Spiders, Frogs, Reptiles, Jacana Media, page 269. From the entry platanna
  • Danny’s snowboy sported a pair of earmuffs that she thought had been permanently lost.2008, Roxann Delaney, Family by Design, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry snowboy
  • Camille said, as if unhearing, "Of course Apollo isn't with us permanently, you know!"2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 272. From the entry unhearing
  • She had a permanently martyred air and no life outside the newsroom.1998, Elaine Viets, Rubout. From the entry corporate nun
  • A similar situation exists in temporary or permanently stratified waters of freshwater, brackish and marine environments.1979, S. Golubić, J. Schneider, “Carbonate Dissolution”, in P. A. Trudinger, D. J. Swaine, editors, Biogeochemical Cycling of…. From the entry monimolimnion
  • The Americans had Hoover Wagons, which were engineless or permanently out-of-gas automobiles drawn by mules or horses.1961, Ralph Allen, Ordeal by Fire: Canada, 1910-1945, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. From the entry Hoover wagon
  • No one lives there permanently now, anywhere in the Two Hearted country.1961, Sports Illustrated. From the entry Two Hearted
  • As a result many became permanently deformed and were cast aside.1958, Edgar Snow, Journey to the Beginning, New York: Random House, →OCLC, page 53. From the entry Kochiu
  • In the houseslipper section at Fourth Street no employees are permanently assigned.1957, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board. From the entry houseslipper
  • Newbury (West Fields) which was added later, is on the east side, and is permanently unstaffed.1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744. From the entry unstaffed
  • Permanently porcelainize your laundry trays, new or old, at 1⁄2 the cost of new trays.1954, “(advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 165, page 93. From the entry porcelainize
  • Twin bolsters are single bolsters permanently coupled, and double bolster wagons carry two bolsters apiece.1944 September and October, T. F. Cameron, “The Distribution of Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 269. From the entry bolster wagon
  • She kept her foot permanently on the accelerator, and took every corner at an acute angle.1938, Daphne de Maurier, Rebecca. From the entry hot
  • A reinspection may be conducted if any of the violations are not permanently corrected in a timely manner.(Can we date this quote?), “Color-Coded Placard Program”, in Sonoma County, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2026, page 1. From the entry reinspection
  • This provision permanently allows designated beneficiaries who make qualified contributions to their ABLE account to qualify for the Saver’s Credit.2025 May, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 11. From the entry able
  • By sheer wrong-place-wrong-timing, Hank catches a beating so severe that his health is permanently altered, necessitating him giving up alcohol.2025 August 27, Jesse Hassenger, “Caught Stealing is Darren Aronofsky's funniest film, even if it still turns bleak”, in AV Club, archived…. From the entry wrong-place-wrong-timing
  • All extant species lift the distalmost tarsomere permanently off the substrate and primarily use their euplantulae for locomotion.2024 October 25, “Diversity of attachment systems in heelwalkers (Mantophasmatodea) – highly specialized, but uniform”, in…. From the entry heelwalker
  • Such was the damage, it left the viaduct at risk of being closed permanently – and with it, the entire line.2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The Tide is Turning for a Victorian Wonder”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN…. From the entry shipworm
  • Not permanently, just until he got his head straight and some of our mother's inuence out of his system.2019 May 30, Heidi Swain, Poppy's Recipe for Life: Treat yourself to the gloriously uplifting new book from the Sunday Times bestselling…. From the entry get one's head straight
  • We rarely disconnect so we're always 'on', permanently distracted, jumping from task to task in a keyed-up state.2019 March 1, Karen Nimmo, Busy As F*ck, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry screenaholic
  • Others had unloaded and permanently safetied weapons on their arms.2015, The Beam: Season 3, page 517. From the entry safetied

Meaning of permanently

  1. adverb In a permanent manner; lastingly.
  2. adverb Forever.

Full definition of permanently

Questions about permanently in a sentence

How do you use permanently in a sentence?
Permanently is used as an adverb. For example: “He will take over the job permanently when the accountant retires.”
What is a short sentence with permanently?
“The trauma had permanently warped her mind.”
What does permanently mean?
Permanently means in a permanent manner; lastingly.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: permanently (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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