All 12 Uses
perpetual
in
Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen
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- They just keep right on talking about perpetual motion.†
p. 151.3
- Perpetual motion.†
p. 151.4
- My friend, I didn't even know what perpetual motion was.†
p. 151.4
- My father was saying, "But what he's proposing would require a perpetual-motion machine, so it's not possible."†
p. 161.6
- But in a desperate attempt to block Bryce Loski from my mind, I asked, "What's a perpetual-motion machine?"†
p. 161.7 *
- Finally I completely turned my back on him and said to my father, "So who's trying to invent a perpetual-motion machine, anyway?"†
p. 163.1
- Surely he was not interested in perpetual motion.†
p. 163.6
- I dove back in, and when the conversation started to peter out, I came up with my own ideas on perpetual-motion machines.†
p. 163.7
- I was like a perpetual-idea machine, spinning ridiculous suggestions right out of the air.†
p. 163.7
- How about perpetual motion?†
p. 181.8
- Perpetual what?†
p. 181.9
- Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion.†
p. 185.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(perpetual) continuing forever without change; or occurring so frequently it seems constant
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)