sempre
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of sempre
1885–90; < Italian: always < Latin semper
Example Sentences
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One person in the procession held up a sign with Silva's photograph, which read: "Para sempre um de nós."
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
Does Adès also nod to “E sempre lava!” from Puccini’s “Tosca”? Maybe Tchaikovsky and the Dies Irae, too?
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
I looked in Christoph's cello part to see if he had a more complete instruction at that point, but it said the same thing: "sempre" appeared as a stand-alone word.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2010
“Always sing the music — sempre cantando,” he exhorted the musicians as that tune first welled up in the prelude.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2010
Yet it has given me the victory, and "Vincasi per fortund o per ingano, Il vincer sempre fu laudabil cosa"...
From The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. II (of VI), "To Paris and Prison" The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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