sooner or later

Idioms  

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.

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Example Sentences

Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later, a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on the battlefield.

From Salon

Sooner or later, that kind of selloff is likely to happen again.

From Barron's

Netflix has been the utility streamer where all content makers want their content to land sooner or later.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Either shadow banks will be obliged to accept greater regulation, or sooner or later, one or more of them will get caught in a mess that roils the markets,” Ellis told Barron’s in an email.

From Barron's

“Sooner or later, one way or another, the odds increase and increase until serious problems develop that impact the markets roughly the way Lehman and Bear Stearns did. The timing, magnitude, and all the specifics won’t be known in advance, but the odds are rising,” he says.

From Barron's

Related Words

• eventually
• someday
• sometime