How to Use sooner or later in a Sentence

sooner or later

adverb
  • And sooner or later, all good things must come to an end.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But one of us, sooner or later, will have to drown.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The feast will end sooner or later, but for now, the oven’s still hot.
    — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Even so, sooner or later, the war will end in a cease-fire or armistice.
    — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 19 May 2022
  • But the powers that be will have to speak on it sooner or later.
    — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The question now is whether that test will come sooner or later.
    — Gary B. Graves, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2025
  • Still, your little one is bound to catch a cold sooner or later.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But sooner or later, Barkley will break one and flip this game.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Just keep putting the ball in his hands and sooner or later good stuff happens.
    — Dallas News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • It was bound to happen sooner or later.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 9 Apr. 2026
  • And sooner or later something’s got to break.
    — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • And sooner or later something's got to break.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Nov. 2025
  • And sooner or later something’s got to break.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The Mavs will figure this stuff out on the floor sooner or later.
    — Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Somebody will come up sooner or later and tell us a lot more about this person.
    — Fox News, 19 May 2018
  • Putting one foot in front of the other will get us somewhere sooner or later.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
  • And sooner or later, the people of Iran will do the right thing.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
  • But sooner or later, by fluke, there will be a cluster of cases.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 18 June 2022
  • The end of law sooner or later ends in catastrophe.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
  • But at least chronic worries about gas prices will be a thing of the past, sooner or later.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Nov. 2021
  • He was bound to have a flop sooner or later, though, and the C5 was a huge one.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Tried and true has its place, but sooner or later Chevy needs to try something new.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2021
  • So, sooner or later, there are going to be 18 games.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
  • For sooner or later, this kind of president will fall.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Every other club in the game has to open its season on the road, sooner or later.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • If so, everyone beneath the crust will sooner or later be in need of fresh air.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Smith doesn’t see signs of a slowdown anytime soon, though, of course, all booms end sooner or later.
    — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The law of averages would suggest that streak has to end sooner or later.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Expect the melting ice cube metaphor to come into play sooner or later as well.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Dragging a sharp blade along the edge of a can is certain to cause injury sooner or later.
    — Esther Inglis-Arkell, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2017

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