LASTING in a Sentence

Learn LASTING 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.
183 example sentences for LASTING, such as:
1. It could not be very lasting, however.
2. The wish was rather eager than lasting.
3. First impressions are the most lasting.
4. The reforms will bring lasting benefits.
5. Prospects for a lasting peace remain doubtful.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LASTING
lasting
 a.  existing for a long time
 a.  lasting a long time without change
Classic Sentence: (143 in 10 pages)
1  The wish was rather eager than lasting.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Fanny thought exactly the same; and they were also quite agreed in their opinion of the lasting effect, the indelible impression, which such a disappointment must make on his mind.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth, and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  It could not be very lasting, however.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
5  First, because it is more lasting, and there is less hope to escape from it; and, second, because every commonwealth seeks to add to its own strength by weakening and enfeebling all beside.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
6  So far as the Latins are concerned, you can secure a lasting peace either by clemency or by severity.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII.
7  For had these matters been rightly understood from the first, and due remedies applied, the freedom of Rome had been far more lasting, and, possibly, less disturbed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIV.
8  I wonder he does not marry, to secure a lasting convenience of that kind.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33
9  He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33
10  We shall try to understand them fully during these few days so that we may derive from the understanding of them a lasting benefit to our souls.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  It's no use, my dear: he has not the slightest chance of promotion until we are quite sure that the peace will be a lasting one.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  The scope of the society's work was to be extensive: it was to bring lasting happiness to humanity at large, from the banks of the Thames to the shores of Kamtchatka.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
13  To attain this end we must secure a preponderance of virtue over vice and must endeavor to secure that the honest man may, even in this world, receive a lasting reward for his virtue.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
14  But she gave us her blessing, and the assurance of her lasting friendship, and spoke to us, generally, as became a Voice from the Cloister.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
15  Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year and to extend to you all my best wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity.
2  The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.
3  After years of war, the people long for a lasting peace.
4  Now that the war is over may there be a lasting peace between our nations.
5  To make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness.
6  Few observers believe that the treaty will bring a lasting peace to the region.
7  The reforms will bring lasting benefits.
8  An appeal has been launched to build a lasting memorial to the composer.
9  Our goal is to create the conditions for a lasting peace.
10  First impressions are the most lasting.
11  Prospects for a lasting peace remain doubtful.
12  It's too early to make any kind of lasting assessment on the careers of these players.
13  The film brought a few fugitive images to her mind, but on the whole it made no lasting impression upon her.
14  Based on years of research, the military learned that early neurological stimulation exercises could have important and lasting effects.
15  For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.