How to Use time immemorial in a Sentence

time immemorial

noun
  • Since time immemorial, farmlands have been as alive with bird songs as the sound of the wind.
    — Tim Graham, National Geographic, 1 June 2018
  • This has been part of our world, women’s world, since time immemorial.
    — Julie Ma, The Cut, 19 Oct. 2017
  • This has bene part of our world, women’s world, since time immemorial.
    — Yohana Desta, vanityfair.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • One of the ones since time immemorial who have to answer the sacred call.
    — Lonnae O’Neal, National Geographic, 30 May 2020
  • Chefs have been figuring out smarter ways to do more with less for time immemorial.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Since time immemorial, guys have been trying to figure out what to do about hair loss.
    — Nate Erickson, Esquire, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Since time immemorial, such men had spoken for God and for the state.
    — Eric Metaxas, Time, 3 Oct. 2017
  • This is the old trick of demagogues and liars from time immemorial.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Native people have made their way on this land since time immemorial.
    — Alannah Hurley, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 June 2017
  • And it has been abused in casual speech, from time immemorial.
    — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Yet, this land has been my family’s home since time immemorial.
    — Rory Taylor, Teen Vogue, 12 July 2018
  • Art, music and play have been a part of the story of humankind from time immemorial.
    — Nabyl Charania, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • From time immemorial, mankind has been in search of happiness.
    — Jimmy Jain, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Words cannot express the depths of vice and degradation to which they have been sunk from time immemorial.
    — Doug Herman, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
  • From time immemorial, people gazing up at the night sky have dreamed of reaching out to touch the stars.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 May 2018
  • Since time immemorial, people around the world have been beguiled by the wonders of the night sky.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Since time immemorial, humans gazing up at the moon have asked grand questions.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • That we are condemned to repeat the same patterns for time immemorial.
    — Sian Bradley, refinery29.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • That, in fact, has been many a traveling preacher’s grift from time immemorial.
    — Elizabeth Spiers, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Teammates in time immemorial have expressed faith in others to cash in when stakes and stress rose eyeball high.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Many view Brand’s actions as merely part of a long list of scams that stretches back to time immemorial.
    — Callum Booth, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Each tribe has ancestral ties to Bears Ears that date back to time immemorial.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Since time immemorial, humans have looked to the heavens above to make sense of life below, right here on Earth.
    — Camilo Garzón, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Joining the military as a young person has been a rite of passage since time immemorial.
    — Matt Gallagher, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Hosting an over-the-top party is an art the one percent has been perfecting since time immemorial.
    — Marshall Heyman, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Of course, cheating is no new phenomenon—married folks have sought pieces of strange since time immemorial.
    — Dustin J. Seibert, The Root, 19 Oct. 2017
  • They've been used for time immemorial by indigenous cultures.
    — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Being Jewish, from time immemorial, could kill you.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026
  • From time immemorial, populists and demagogues of all stripes have inveighed against the fancy.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The Iñupiat have welcomed back the siqiñiq with a sayuun since time immemorial.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2023

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