All 5 Uses

perpetual
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The Lovely Bones
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.†
Chpt 1
They made his eyes perpetually bloodshot, and many people, my father among them, believed he had taken to drink.†
Chpt 4 *
Mr. Morton had a perpetual hangover, which was at its peak during homeroom.†
Chpt 6
I was perpetually assigned the job of watching out for little brother.†
Chpt 7
My head would throb and the sky would darken and it would be that night again, that perpetual yesterday lived again.†
Chpt 10

Definitions:

(1) (perpetual)
continuing forever without change; or occurring so frequently it seems constant
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)