How to Use eventuality in a Sentence

eventuality

noun
  • He planned carefully and was ready for any eventuality.
  • But that eventuality has not yet come to pass.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • And so all armies are going to have to build for that eventuality.
    — CBS News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • This was, this was a black eye for not planning for this eventuality.
    — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • This eventuality presents—or, again, should present—a quandary.
    — Ryann Liebenthal, The New Republic, 9 May 2023
  • For the moment, all anyone can do is try to plan for any eventuality.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Both have no clue when the call will arrive, and both have to be prepared for any eventuality.
    — Tom Layberger, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • For Olynyk, there was a trade kicker in place in case of such an eventuality.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Planning for the eventuality of her parents’ death has been hard for her too.
    — Cate Young, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2021
  • But that eventuality does not make this period of time any less strange.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 July 2017
  • The best way to prepare for such an eventuality is by planning.
    — Libby Rothschild, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • And the entire league has been braced and prepared for such eventualities.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 June 2018
  • Make an effort to be prepared for all sorts of eventualities.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But Democrats have been staring down this eventuality for some time.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • However, events had moved too far, too fast, to avoid that eventuality.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2022
  • And how will Musk respond to any of these eventualities?
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There are two ways this could resolve, one of which would be ideal and the other of which has an air of eventuality.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
  • But investors should be weighing up the cost of that second eventuality too.
    — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2019
  • That's an eventuality Napoli want to avoid, and they are believed to have tabled an offer to keep him tied down.
    — SI.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Players will have vast numbers of plays memorized and will be ready for any and all eventualities.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • No matter how much snow falls, the city must take certain precautions to be ready for any eventuality.
    — Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Fernhout and other breeders want to be ready for the eventuality.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 25 July 2019
  • Teams need to be prepared for all those eventualities and the Rangers simply don’t look prepared.
    — Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Before a screen is ever set, Capela reads the moment for all its eventualities.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 18 May 2018
  • If the prediction came far enough in advance, most of us might even try to prevent the eventuality or avert the outcome.
    — Brandy Schillace, Wired, 28 Dec. 2021
  • There's no reason to think such an eventuality would upend our lives like the full-on pandemic response of a year ago.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 9 July 2021
  • But the job of government is to foresee these eventualities and do something to protect against them.
    — Reid Frazier, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Tanner Houck, who was being prepared as a starter for such an eventuality, will likely claim one of the spots.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The role of the credit rating firms is to assess the likelihood of those eventualities.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • As the social network runs out of new ad space, growth will slow later this year, but this latest report makes that eventuality seem far off.
    — Mike Shields, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2017

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