How to Use eventual in a Sentence

eventual

adjective
  • The case could be on an eventual track to the Supreme Court.
    — Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Hanas from the corner finds Dureau in the slot for the hat trick and the eventual winner.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The eventual result will be the same: Fires too big to put out.
    — Thomas Hoenig, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
  • What must the eventual starter demonstrate in order to earn the job?
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • His homer on Monday put the Tigers ahead 2-0 in the eventual 4-3 win to clinch the series.
    — Nubyjas Wilborn | [email protected], al, 18 June 2022
  • Betts hit a three-run home run to left field, putting the Dodgers back in front for good in an eventual 9-6 win.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • The ones who stick around will share in your eventual success.
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • At the time, that eventual Volunteers road win helped put them on the map.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Now that eventual 12-team Big 12 might be the worst-case scenario.
    — Dallas News, 19 July 2022
  • This will be the eventual fate of our own sun, and solar system.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • That ended when the New York Yankees chased him in the third inning of an eventual 10-7 loss to the Yankees.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 May 2023
  • Nor does there seem to be much progress in planning for an eventual handoff of the Baikonur project to Kazakhstan.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Garner ran for three touchdowns and threw a 5-yard TD pass that proved to be the eventual game-winner.
    — al, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The song climbed to No. 4 the prior month, becoming P!nk’s first career top five hit (of an eventual eight to date).
    — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2023
  • If the Senate gets 60 votes to break a filibuster, the bill is on a glidepath to eventual passage.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • However, the club fell 2-1 to the eventual champions and her new club Gotham FC.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Tillman followed orders and sat out the rest of a 66-14 win en route to an eventual CCS title.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The eventual reveal of what Harry’s project is pretty much says it all.
    — Will Harris, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Tambe, the eventual 3A state singles champion, jumped out to a 2-0 lead and had three break points on Selvan to increase the lead.
    — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
  • In the meantime, the lender uses the car as collateral to secure the loan until the eventual payoff.
    — Ashley Donohoe, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The lawmakers have a track record of picking the eventual winner.
    — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 4 Oct. 2022
  • O’Connor sang from a young age, forming the band Ton Ton Macoute in her teens, which led to her eventual solo career.
    — Vulture, 26 July 2023
  • To me, these are details that need to be shared—and not just as a dramatic prelude to the eventual happy ending.
    — Ron Shaich, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In Game 4, his wrist shot from the left circle on a feed from Rodrigues was the first of three unanswered goals in Florida’s eventual 3-2 win.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 May 2024
  • In some cases, friends can even be the ones who introduce us to our eventual partners.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Dempster’s eventual successor will have quite a bit of work to do.
    — Max Greenwood, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Freddie Freeman faced the Braves for the first time since coming to the Dodgers in the spring, hitting a home run in his first-ever at-bat against his old club in the Dodgers eventual 7-4 win.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Lee lost in the second hole of a playoff to eventual champion Wenyi Ding of China.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The strike came on a simple play, with Bennett rolling up high on the power play and firing a snap shot from the point to give Florida a three-goal lead in its eventual 5-2 win at the Lenovo Center.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 21 May 2025
  • His journey to his first permanent job, and eventual graduate degree, coincided with the Knicks own relative success.
    — Dr. Gaurav Majmudar, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025

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