Example Sentences

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The finiteness of this supply distinguishes materials from energy.

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2022

"As we learn to repent and confess, as we embrace our mortality and our finiteness, we are not left in our brokenness."

From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2022

But there is a finiteness to the moment because of Black Widow’s death in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2021

Bezos thinks that space colonisation is urgent because of the finiteness of energy and resources.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2019

I know not every soon-to-be fifteen-year-old thinks so deeply about the finiteness of time, but I do.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold