Sample Sentences for
indefinitely
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    In China, Public Security Bureaus have the authority, without making a formal charge, to detain indefinitely people suspected of committing a crime.
    indefinitely = for an unspecified, but long period of time (possibly forever)
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    The wall of fire must have an end and it won't burn indefinitely.  (source)
    indefinitely = forever
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    Though she was confined to the yard indefinitely and could go nowhere,  (source)
    indefinitely = for an unspecified, but long period of time
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    Each time the car collapsed, I prayed we might be stranded there indefinitely.  (source)
    indefinitely = for a long time
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    There is such magnificent vagueness in the expectations that had driven each of us to sea, such a glorious indefiniteness, such a beautiful greed of adventures that are their own and only reward.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Keep him confined indefinitely, without justification, while you go crawling through black holes in cyberspace?  (source)
    indefinitely = for an unspecified, but long period of time
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    What indefiniteness is there in the position?†  (source)
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    But although every living thing knew it was spring, Miss Crocker and the other teachers evidently did not, for school lingered on indefinitely.  (source)
    indefinitely = for a long time
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    The indefiniteness consists in your imagining that I am free.†  (source)
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    In the past eighteen months, my mets have hardly grown, leaving me with lungs that suck at being lungs but could, conceivably, struggle along indefinitely with the assistance of drizzled oxygen and daily Phalanxifor.  (source)
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    Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude.†  (source)
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    Five months earlier, General Hap Arnold had ordered that all life rafts be equipped with the Delano Sunstill, a device that could generate small amounts of drinking water indefinitely.  (source)
    indefinitely = for an unspecified, but long period of time
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    In that drawing room were gathered, by the Emperor's wish, not a military council (the Emperor preferred indefiniteness), but certain persons whose opinions he wished to know in view of the impending difficulties.†  (source)
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