EVENTUALLY in a Sentence

Learn EVENTUALLY 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 EVENTUALLY, 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. The conversation became strained and eventually petered out.
4. The company eventually monopolized the entire cigarette industry.
5. They will eventually be able to claw back all or most of the debt.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EVENTUALLY
eventually
 ad.  after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  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
2  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
3  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
4  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
5  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
6  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
7  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
8  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
9  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
10  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
11  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.
12  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
13  Cutter was tormented by the fear that Mrs. Cutter would live longer than he, and that eventually her 'people,' whom he had always hated so violently, would inherit.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
14  All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which is almost indescribable.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
15  He was one of those who think that science will eventually turn the position.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Example Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  They will eventually be able to claw back all or most of the debt.
2  The police never caught him in any criminal activity but he eventually fell foul of the tax authorities.
3  I presume that an agreement will eventually be reached.
4  I eventually found them in a bar, both as drunk as skunks.
5  One per cent of total public spending should eventually go towards the arts.
6  No matter how tough the life is, you will eventually find someone who'd make you willing to stay with.
7  I eventually realized I had to change my attitude toward medical practice.
8  I didn't want to go out on a holiday trip,but eventually my wife talked me round.
9  Sheep kept getting tangled up in it and eventually the wire was removed.
10  Having sought asylum in the West for many years, they were eventually granted it.
11  He eventually withdrew in favour of Blair, thought to be the more popular candidate.
12  Following a determined resistance in the east, there was eventually a popular uprising in the capital.
13  After living in France for years, she eventually became a French citizen.
14  The company eventually monopolized the entire cigarette industry.
15  The conversation became strained and eventually petered out.