eternize
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Many there were who sought to eternize their own Names by honouring his; some by Elegies, and other Devices, amongst the rest one made this Anagram upon his name.
From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by William Riley Parker
His loss preserv’d him; they that silenc’d wit35 Are now the authors to eternize it.
From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Thomas Stanley
Not so," quod I; "let baser things devize To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your vertues rare shall eternize, And in the hevens wryte your glorious name.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
Plate inscribed with a ship's name. eternize Make eternal.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward
Farewell, forget mee not, continued deserts will eternize me vnto thee, thy full wishes shall bee expired when thy trauell shall be once ended.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
A woman wove through the sea of red and up to the eternized president, accompanied by a pair of panting golden retrievers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019
We do not want to see Cervantes's days of poverty and struggle eternized in statues.
From Castilian Days by John Hay
Therefore at least admit us liberty, Even as thou hop'st to be eternized By living Asia's mighty emperor.
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe
The dead are eternized in stone, The living, by living shafts are known.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Is not their memory eternized in one of John Foster's most ponderous pieces of sarcasm?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
Although more enduring than parchment, tombs, pyramids, and temples, it is as far as they from truly eternizing the memory of what man has fancied and done.
From Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss
These should have some such eternizing epitaph as this: “For four years they kept the fates banded against them uneasy.”
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
