sooner or later

1. Eventually, at some unspecified future time, as in Sooner or later we'll have to answer that letter, or It's bound to stop raining sooner or later. This term, which generally implies that some future event is certain to happen, was first recorded in 1577.

Example Sentences

"Sooner or later, today, tomorrow, in a year or two, they will leave this country. And Palestine will be liberated."

From BBC

“In the world of somebody who’s an authoritarian, maybe a dictatorship, sooner or later, everyone is going to be touched,” Letterman said.

From Los Angeles Times

They are under-performing and also maybe bought a few players in a bit of panic at the end of the transfer window - Jadon Sancho, Harvey Elliott and Victor Lindelof all joined on deadline day - but Emery will get a tune out of his team sooner or later.

From BBC

It’s clear from the guns that both sides pack, and the fact that Robbie has been stealing from criminals — notably a drug-dealing motorcycle gang, the Dark Hearts, which has its own explosive internal business — that something is going to go fatally wrong sooner or later.

From Los Angeles Times

“I don’t know when, sooner or later, but they gonna come. They gonna come.”

From Slate

Related Words

• eventually 
• someday 
• sometime