How to Use permanence in a Sentence

permanence

noun
  • There’s no such thing as permanence in the sky.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
  • There’s no such thing as permanence in the sky.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That’s where the permanence code comes in.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • What changes now is permanence.
    — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The look adds gravitas to the room and a sense of permanence.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • For a lot of places, permanence is no longer a part of the business model.
    — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The permanence of the Chelsea boot has a lot to do with comfort and ease.
    — Kristen Philipkoski, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • There is no coming back from the permanence of the death penalty.
    — Kevin O'Neal Cokley, The Conversation, 27 Nov. 2019
  • His legacy will be cast in a permanence that’s hard to fathom.
    — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But fear not, those of you struggling with object permanence.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Still, being first carries its own kind of permanence.
    — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Those objects were able to have a permanence and tell a story that nobody else could.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The market is moving too fast for permanence.
    — Harlem Capital, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Trees give the yard and house a look of permanence and soften the second story or roofline against the sky.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2023
  • If your child is old enough to understand the permanence of death (around age 7), tell the truth.
    — Philly.com, 13 June 2018
  • The architect added that the permanence of paint makes the practice risky.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But there remain some questions about the permanence of the treatment too.
    — Gabby Shacknai, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The miracle of film is its permanence.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • Out of survival comes permanence.
    — Sudhir Gupta, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Students should be taught about the inevitable permanence of ephemeral speech.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 25 June 2021
  • And ensuring permanence of the carbon stocks can be hard in the face of storms or marine heat waves.
    — Nicola Jones, Wired, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Aimee’s heart lurched at the sudden permanence of her mother’s absence.
    — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • The lack of object permanence with respect to one’s mom and dad is enough to make anyone hit the bottle.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Objects mattered because they were built with permanence in mind.
    — Sudhir Gupta, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The work is meant to reimagine the concept, location, and permanence of the idea of home.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2019
  • But permanence would keep the pressure on liberal states to reform their tax codes.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
  • Proof that fragrance once believed in permanence.
    — Sudhir Gupta, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In a world where everything is instant, print’s power lies in its permanence.
    — Kelly Ehlers, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The first will be in three to five years when the reality of the permanence of the trauma settles in.
    — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But the axis framing overstates the depth and permanence of their alignment.
    — Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2025

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