How to Use immortal in a Sentence

immortal

1 of 2 adjective
  • Clive, you will be missed but your legacy is immortal.
    — Charlie Carballo, USA Today, 22 June 2026
  • Some of the footage of him looking spry and immortal was shot just eight months ago.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • We are not bound from birth to death by a soul or immortal filament.
    — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The immortal children are in charge.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In the immortal words of Monty Python, this bird is no more.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • How an immortal character could be killed is also played for laughs.
    — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The beats, the beard and the belly are now bobblehead-immortal.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2022
  • That would be Marie’s immortal legacy.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • And so the first generation of immortal beings could well be the last.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Just like pure, statuesque, immortal goddess talking to us about the trenches with such grace.
    — James Factora, Them., 21 Oct. 2025
  • But even a genius, in the immortal words of Jim Collins, needs a thousand helpers.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • Hounsou will play an immortal warrior from Africa.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • And that’s just 3% short of #1, the immortal Carrie.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Zeus strips him of his immortal powers, giving him seven days to find and return the love potion.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 May 2022
  • In the metaverse, virtual artists are immortal, but who controls the avatars?
    — Adario Strange, Quartz, 30 July 2022
  • Hedda Gabler is one of those immortal dramatic roles.
    — Ben Jureidini, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
  • And because his children couldn’t be killers, Logan seemed immortal.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Five or six songs in that show are immortal, not to mention the symphonic material.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Versionsof the claim suggest that the hydras are immortal and can infect the human body.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Laugh along as the three kids try to stop these witchy sisters from taking over Salem and and killing children in order to stay immortal.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 5 June 2023
  • The season ends with Rachel driving away, now as this immortal witness to the ongoing curse.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The kids then must steal the witches’ book of spells to stop the Sanderson sisters from becoming immortal.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 19 July 2022
  • Jim O’Mahony, on the other hand, offered at least one immortal sentence.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The Sandman follows an immortal being who is also the king of dreams, and he's known as, well, Dream.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The conversations are strictly private, both in the moment and for time immortal.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The message of the song is part-and-parcel with the album concept, in a semi-meta kind of way, about what’s mortal and what’s immortal.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Durkin had seen Kerry wrestle in person, and the golden-haired Texan seemed immortal in the ring.
    — EW.com, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In the game, Xiao is an immortal guardian of the Liyue region tasked with defeating the land’s evil spirits.
    — Alyse Stanley, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Both gigs were lost for the usual reason, but a dream hire as the immortal Hank Williams’ business manager came next.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 1 June 2026
  • Humans have long dreamed of constructing beloveds—if only to imagine them as immortal and thus impossible to lose.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2026

immortal

2 of 2 noun
  • The immortals in Highlander believed there could only be one.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Scooter Gennett’s found a way to put himself in the company of some of the game’s immortals.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, Cincinnati.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • They aren't usually called mummies, though, but rather Immortals.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
  • But in the coterie world of theater connoisseurs, Mays has earned a place among acting immortals.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • During his life, Kurgan was a bad dude, killing and raping, and taking the heads of many Immortals.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The only thing that kept Pei from becoming one of the immortals was his paucity of artistic talent.
    — Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 24 May 2019
  • Between being a mortal and being an immortal?
    — Wendy Landry, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2025
  • But his greedy schemes and her desire to keep her dog immortal led to the downfall of her once-thriving business and turned her into a woman on the run.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Not all the performances from the nineteen-eighties are at the same level, but the best ones, recorded live at concerts, put him among the immortals.
    — David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018
  • Theron plays Andy, the leader of a group of immortals battling a powerful enemy.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Andy asks Quynh to join the rest of the immortals, but Quynh refuses and instead teams up with Discord.
    — Caroline Blair, People.com, 3 July 2025
  • Learn from millennia of aspiring immortals, syphilitics, and sushi over-consumers, and just say no.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2020
  • That's what happens when a player's name is consistently spoken in the same breath as the immortals of baseball history.
    — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • According to sources, the feature seems to be populated by more immortals who also happen to be from various parts of the world.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2025
  • Sale got one more out, then gave up hard singles to immortals Kyle Higashioka and Breyvic Valera.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Yeats’s speaker has gained prophetic vision through sharing in the drink of the Country of the Young—the land of the immortals, in Irish myth.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 Mar. 2018
  • For one thing, the oldest immortal of them all (Uma Thurman as Discord) has returned with a plan to purge the Earth of her own kind.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 July 2025
  • Parcells and Coughlin became coaching immortals with the Giants.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Influenced by Taoism, the gardens manifested the myth about five islands in the ocean where eight immortals lived in harmony with nature.
    — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 21 May 2017
  • Cullen is playing a police psychiatrist who discovers the existence of immortals and wants to help MacLeod.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Steph Curry is absolutely an immortal.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Irons will play one of the film's antagonists, the leader of a secret order called the Watchers who keep an eye on immortals, viewing them as a threat to humanity.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Bautista will have the plum role of the immortal barbarian known as The Kurgen, who has been killing other immortals across the centuries in order to absorb their essence.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In what is being described as a leading role, Abela will play one of the new characters, an immortal who is a teacher of swordplay and one of MacLeod’s past loves.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2025
  • It’s set in a land split in two – Starside is where the magical, powerful immortals live, and Stormside is where mortals scramble for even just a taste of that magic.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • DeMarcus Ware and Manning are football immortals, enshrined in the Hall of Fame.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
  • New to the gang is Tuah (Henry Golding), an old friend and fellow immortal who is an expert on all things immortality.
    — EW.com, 2 July 2025
  • Andy, once a centuries-old immortal who has now lost her healing powers, must race across continents to recover her magic, all the while facing deadly mercenaries and ancient evils.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • Individual entities had their own Halls of Fame or groups of immortals, but there was nothing representing the region as a whole.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The new open world setup is all about scanning and scavenging for items, as well as taking down various Immortals (creatures mutated due to Femto).
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025

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