lastingness

Example Sentences

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Anciently created as single-chamber tombs, dolmens dot the Danish landscape, and during the Romantic era became emblems of home pride, of national strength and lastingness.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023

For American originalists, in particular, Magna Carta has a special lastingness.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015

Mystery is part of his beauty and his lastingness.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2014

The sense of lastingness was gone from her and every moment with Harney would now be ringed with doubt.

From Summer by Wharton, Edith

For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls"—big lumps of the most delicious lastingness.

From John Barleycorn by London, Jack