EVENTUAL in a Sentence

Learn EVENTUAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
135 example sentences for EVENTUAL, such as:
1. I presume that an agreement will eventually be reached.
2. I eventually found them in a bar, both as drunk as skunks.
3. They will eventually be able to claw back all or most of the debt.
4. The door had eventually to be opened by a locksmith from Aldershot.
5. Sheep kept getting tangled up in it and eventually the wire was removed.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EVENTUAL
eventual
 a.  expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
2  And how pleasing to God was this conduct in Jonah, is shown in the eventual deliverance of him from the sea and the whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
3  The Secretary of War could issue rations, clothing, and fuel to the destitute, and all abandoned property was placed in the hands of the Bureau for eventual lease and sale to ex-slaves in forty-acre parcels.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
4  And for six months he should work at farming, so that eventually he and Connie could have some small farm of their own, into which he could put his energy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  The grief had been there so shortly as to have abstracted nothing of the bloom, and had as yet but given a dignity to what it might eventually undermine.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
6  The alarm, however, was given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was eventually recovered.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
7  In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
8  The door had eventually to be opened by a locksmith from Aldershot.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
9  While there she had met a young man named Harold Latimer, who had acquired an ascendancy over her and had eventually persuaded her to fly with him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
10  Dark rumours gathered round him in the university town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and to come down to London, where he set up as an Army coach.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
11  Oh, yes, thought Scarlett, drearily, some widows do remarry eventually, when they are old and stringy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  No one except the doting father could see anything beautiful about her, but the neighbors were charitable enough to say that all ugly babies turned out pretty, eventually.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  Scarlett was annoyed at the weight he attached to Bonnie's night terrors but she thought she could eventually remedy the state of affairs and transfer the child back to the nursery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
14  For, as it eventually turned out, he cared not to consort, even for five minutes, with any stranger captain, except he could contribute some of that information he so absorbingly sought.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
15  I knew it was homesickness that had killed Mr. Shimerda, and I wondered whether his released spirit would not eventually find its way back to his own country.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
Example Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  One of Mr. Barak's legacies is that more Israelis now know that an eventual peace agreement with the Palestinians will have to involve a deal on Jerusalem.
2  Unnoticed by the critics at its publication, the eventual Pulitzer Prize winner was a classic sleeper.
3  It is impossible to predict what the eventual outcome of global warming will be.
4  The method of study finally chosen was that of participant observation of a community for an eventual period of twenty months.
5  They will eventually be able to claw back all or most of the debt.
6  The police never caught him in any criminal activity but he eventually fell foul of the tax authorities.
7  I presume that an agreement will eventually be reached.
8  I eventually found them in a bar, both as drunk as skunks.
9  One per cent of total public spending should eventually go towards the arts.
10  No matter how tough the life is, you will eventually find someone who'd make you willing to stay with.
11  I eventually realized I had to change my attitude toward medical practice.
12  I didn't want to go out on a holiday trip,but eventually my wife talked me round.
13  Sheep kept getting tangled up in it and eventually the wire was removed.
14  Having sought asylum in the West for many years, they were eventually granted it.
15  He eventually withdrew in favour of Blair, thought to be the more popular candidate.