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  • A machine capable of perpetual motion without input of outside energy is impossible according to the laws of thermodynamics.
  • She has a perpetual ironic smirk.
    perpetual = happening so often it feels constant
  • And despite his overdeveloped social conscience, he was no tight-lipped, perpetually grim do-gooder who frowned on fun.  (source)
    perpetually = always
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  • …the younger children had perpetual colds…  (source)
    perpetual = occurring so frequently it seems continual
  • With a convulsion of the mind, Ralph discovered dirt and decay, understood how much he disliked perpetually flicking the tangled hair out of his eyes, and at last, when the sun was gone, rolling noisily to rest among dry leaves.  (source)
    perpetually = continually
  • It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did.  (source)
    perpetual = continuing forever without change
  • She was in her thirties, unmarried, perpetually sipping herbal tea.  (source)
    perpetually = continually; or always
  • The principle of perpetual disappointment.  (source)
    perpetual = continuing forever
  • In all their talk they came perpetually back to one thing: where was Smaug?  (source)
    perpetually = continually
  • An old lady stood there smiling, her dentures glowing white in the perpetual green twilight of the hallway.  (source)
    perpetual = changeless (continuing forever without change)
  • In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me.†  (source)
  • Once I ran away from Lorraine and the others and hid in a part of the cemetery that didn't have perpetual care.  (source)
    perpetual = continuing forever
  • She was tall and bony, and wore a perpetually severe expression.†  (source)
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