How to Use ad infinitum in a Sentence

ad infinitum

adverb or adjective
  • There’s the shock of the killing, caught on film, memed, and shared ad infinitum.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
  • That starts the full circle over and over again, ad infinitum.
    — Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • And there could be a third layer below that, and a fourth, ad infinitum.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
  • And repeat, ad infinitum, until the peas are white as stones.
    — Emiene Wright, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But is that honest ad infinitum?
    — Charles Lane, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Brown fails and dies so that others may fail and die after him—perhaps ad infinitum.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
  • And then the algorithm predicts the next word, and the next word, and the next word, ad infinitum.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Instead, remote workers do their work, and do their work, and do their work, ad infinitum.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • So why won’t this sideways range in prices continue ad infinitum?
    — Simon Constable, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Those supporting tankers in turn would need their own escorts, which would need their own tankers, ad infinitum.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • But the sunset is a ruse, since Democrats plan to renew the child allowance ad infinitum.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The brain's natural tendency is to go around and around, ad infinitum.
    — Chris Taylor, Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
  • Remove the middle third, then do the same to the remaining two segments, and so on, ad infinitum.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
  • That means hard drives, cables ad infinitum, dongles, and the helmets, which the guys insist must be in their sights at all times.
    — Dani Deahl, The Verge, 13 July 2018
  • The outcome of the Wilson review was inevitably going to be sliced and diced ad infinitum.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Clicking and clacking, a tiny wooden marionette lifts an apple to his mouth ad infinitum.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
  • One collision would mean more space junk, which would collide with other objects and create even more space junk, ad infinitum.
    — David Palmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The road not taken, thanking your lucky stars, being so intimate with someone who’s now dead, ad infinitum.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • This back and forth and back was repeated, sometimes ad infinitum, with beatings, robberies and deaths thrown into the mix.
    — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • One was Alan Freed, the impresario who helped make the song a hit by spinning it ad infinitum on the radio.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Ample endowments are there to be used for the benefit of students, not simply to grow ad infinitum.
    — Robert Litan, The New Republic, 20 July 2021
  • Love ya ad infinitum Mamma Roma!
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Fraudsters that steal or fake identities can scale their attacks ad infinitum, at zero marginal cost.
    — Aidan McCarty, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • In this way, an expanding universe can spawn new universes, one after the other, ad infinitum.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
  • And, of course, there are those who try to cure us of aging, so that our bodies and minds will cease to deteriorate and our life spans will increase ad infinitum.
    — Maria Konnikova, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • And does the season have to feel like an inexorable march toward Clemson-Bama, ad infinitum?
    — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2019
  • But, at least historically, with the bigger rockets, people haven't been willing to sit around ad infinitum to go ad astra.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 6 July 2018
  • Wimbledon doesn't use tiebreakers in the fifth set for men, or third set for women, so there's nothing to prevent a match from continuing ad infinitum.
    — Howard Fendrich, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • David Bui, another friend, took 45 minutes to make a website, which showed the emoji bouncing around ad infinitum.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 29 June 2020
  • Picking up objects is as quick as a button press, and comes with pings and plops of audio feedback that have made Nintendo games so pleasant to hear ad infinitum.
    — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2020

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