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

But sooner or later the question about giving back raises its head.

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Sooner or later, something will have to be done in the courtyard that’s at the center of campus life.

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The mismatch has plenty of investors worried stocks may sooner or later pull back.

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“This collapse isn’t happening now. But sooner or later those things always happen.”

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This week WBD admitted the obvious: The Ellison machinations had put the company in play, which was expected sooner or later anyway.

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Related Words

• eventually 
• someday 
• sometime