How to Use immemorial in a Sentence

immemorial

adjective
  • Those two monuments were made to feel as immemorial as if they had been created by plate tectonics.
    — Elizabeth Alexander, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The first day of class has an immemorial feel to it, an air of familiar routines eternally renewed.
    — Carlo Rotella, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The history of open memorials is perhaps best seen in spontaneous gestures of grief that are immemorial.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Without thinking, Noonan raised two fingers from the steering wheel in that immemorial gesture of laconic country salute.
    — Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • What made the Gulf War and the Iraq War different from others in the immemorial annals of human atrociousness?
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
  • And 2 platoons formed escort to prisoners of war passing through the immemorial shade of the staffroom after the successful action at RAFA.
    — Ishion Hutchinson, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Aside from the immemorial wonders, Shiraz provided other, less monumental features.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The welfare state, properly understood by Friedrich Hayek and others, is an effort to continue in modern conditions the immemorial practice of taking care of those who are poor, disabled, or in distress.
    — Christopher Demuth Sr., National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Akhnaten is remarkable in its depiction of the Egyptian ruler’s piety, its immemorial-sounding rhythms, and its visual composition of illumination and acrobatics.
    — Mary Spencer, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Since then, the Internet has gone about its immemorial business of destroying all incumbent forms of media; not content with vampirizing print, the digital space began sucking the life from pay-TV a dozen years ago.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025

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