IMMEMORIAL in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for IMMEMORIAL, such as:
1. It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman.
2. Members of my family have lived in this house since time immemorial.
3. All religions are created by man, including the concept of God, since time immemorial.
4. From time immemorial, the coast cities had dominated the South, commercially and otherwise.
5. Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris is itself an imitator.
2. Members of my family have lived in this house since time immemorial.
3. All religions are created by man, including the concept of God, since time immemorial.
4. From time immemorial, the coast cities had dominated the South, commercially and otherwise.
5. Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris is itself an imitator.
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Meanings and Examples of IMMEMORIAL
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immemorial
a. long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 From time immemorial, the coast cities had dominated the South, commercially and otherwise.
2 Lost causes had a romantic charm for her, and she liked to picture herself as standing aloof from the vulgar press of the Quirinal, and sacrificing her pleasure to the claims of an immemorial tradition.
3 It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman.
4 Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
5 The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of them actually came into being.
6 Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief.
7 She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and true.
8 This is a great tract of a hundred thousand acres, which from time immemorial has been a hunting preserve of the nobility.
9 His person was now protected by immemorial and sacred usage, until the tribe in council had deliberated and determined on his fate.
10 This is the practice established from time immemorial, among civilised nations that scour the seas.
11 Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: it is thought that the devil, from time immemorial, has selected the forest as a hiding-place for his treasures.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
12 The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling gift from their good fairy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
13 Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris is itself an imitator.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
14 At others he will with his own hands tear down some other man's gate and declare that a path has existed there from time immemorial, defying the owner to prosecute him for trespass.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
Context Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
15 Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was a most fortunate thing.
Example Sentence:
1 Members of my family have lived in this house since time immemorial.
2 All religions are created by man, including the concept of God, since time immemorial.