immortality
immortal condition or quality; unending life.
enduring fame.
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How to use immortality in a sentence
Growing up, my dad, a doctor obsessed with the idea of immortality, would tell how his grandparents back in Lebanon had lived well past the 100-year mark.
Others argue it is far from obvious what the ancient Egyptians—who desperately sought immortality—would have wanted, or who should speak for them now.
It may be time for museums to return Egyptian mummies to their coffins | Purbita Saha | June 28, 2021 | Popular-ScienceA victor wins laurels, but a glorious loser gains immortality.
What people today — including Phil Collins — get wrong about the Alamo | H.W. Brands | June 25, 2021 | Washington PostRegeneration provides a kind of immortality that may have clues for human lifespans.
Even when their generators go cold and the ships wink out, they will remain, in a sense, our last, best bid for immortality.
After Visiting Pluto, NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Reaches Another Cosmic Milestone | Jeffrey Kluger | April 16, 2021 | Time
Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.
The Walking Dead’s Luke Skywalker: Rick Grimes Is the Perfect Modern-Day Mythical Hero | Regina Lizik | October 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDid the screenwriters know they were dancing with immortality when they wrote these lines?
What Was Bogey Thinking When He Said ‘Here’s Looking At You, Kid’? | Lewis Beale | September 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis family of doctrines held that human beings had the potential to attain immortality through their own agency.
The Core Mormon Teaching the LDS Church Didn’t Jettison | Jay Michaelson | April 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the age of 9, Daniel Radcliffe was catapulted towards Harry Potter and Hollywood immortality by a single, instinctive wink.
How Daniel Radcliffe Became Harry Potter And Other Masterpiece Theatre Tales | Nico Hines | October 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut, no matter how the Court decides, McCutcheon has already secured a certain share of immortality.
Meet Shaun McCutcheon, the Republican Activist Trying to Make History at the Supreme Court | Ben Jacobs | October 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn a paroxysm of rage and fear, he gave the final order, and the Well of Cawnpore thereby attained its ghastly immortality.
The Red Year | Louis TracyPersonal immortality is only to be desired if it insures the lifting of our faculties to their highest power of expression.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonBy a noble metaphor, says Milman, the day of their death was considered that of their birth to immortality.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowThe insatiable thirst for that which is beyond and which veils life, is the most lively proof of our immortality.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierShe had not been endowed with the privilege of immortality with which God had invested our first parents in paradise.
Mary, Help of Christians | Various
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