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  • It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.   (source)
  • I used to fancy that life was a positive and perpetual entity, and that by consuming a multitude of live things, no matter how low in the scale of creation, one might indefinitely prolong life.   (source)
    indefinitely = for an unspecified, but long period of time
  • It could also be kept up indefinitely, as long as the wizard operating the orb remained immobile and kept both hands on the artifact.†   (source)
  • For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated—the switch flipped indefinitely.†   (source)
  • The rides were closed indefinitely.†   (source)
  • I could be hospitalized indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Bugs like this one could listen indefinitely.†   (source)
  • It was an easy, sleepy kind of languid fever, and so long as he did not try to move too much or exert himself unnecessarily he could live this way indefinitely.†   (source)
  • When their time was up, Annie returned to her office, where, she said, she planned to lie down indefinitely, and Mae returned to her old pod.†   (source)
  • We create temporal loops in which peculiar folk can live indefinitely.†   (source)
  • "You realize , of course, that nothing we do will be able to keep out You-Know-Who indefinitely?" squeaked Flitwick.†   (source)
  • Indefinitely," he added.†   (source)
  • Of course the crank religions wouldn't like it, in view of the fact that their raison d'être was based on misery, indefinitely deferred gratification, and sexual frustration, but they wouldn't be able to hold out long.†   (source)
  • One Monday, all school classes were suspended indefinitely.†   (source)
  • It was pretty much understood we couldn't squat in these woods indefinitely.†   (source)
  • His dark green rubbery skin was thick enough for him to play the game of Vogon Civil Service politics, and play it well, and waterproof enough for him to survive indefinitely at sea depths of down to a thousand feet with no ill effects.†   (source)
  • My hope of finding my family plummeted when I learned that I was to stay there indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Instead, he orders Tania to stay indoors indefinitely, for her own safety.†   (source)
  • But with the summer drawing to an end, with Tommy getting stronger, and the possibility of notice for his fourth donation growing ever more distinct, we knew we couldn't keep putting things off indefinitely.†   (source)
  • She took a grandmotherly interest in me, she'd certainly let me stay on, indefinitely: The cabins were half empty, no harm.†   (source)
  • A host can live indefinitely, no matter what sickness he may have, no matter how injured he may be.†   (source)
  • Do you think she has time for us to do the wrong thing...or anything ...indefinitely?†   (source)
  • Indefinitely, I suppose; I don't know.†   (source)
  • I don't have any intention of abandoning the relationship, but I don't have the stamina to serve indefinitely as his keeper, worrying about his safety while trying to be a columnist, husband and father.†   (source)
  • Ancillaries can stay in suspension indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Meaning, I hadn't brought it up, and they hadn't brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Indeed I fear we would have lingered on indefinitely had not our foreign friends prepared a more highly spiced entertainment.†   (source)
  • He had brought them to Father more than a year before: "Just in case I should not be able to care for them—ah—indefinitely."†   (source)
  • He had written back wryly that The Little School had been indefinitely — and perhaps infinitely — delayed between hand and page "in that interesting intellectual Gobi known as the writer's block.†   (source)
  • For Democritus it was all-important to establish that the constituent parts that everything else was composed of could not be divided indefinitely into smaller parts.†   (source)
  • I looked up "cell culture" in the index, and there she was, a small parenthetical: In culture, cancer cells can go on dividing indefinitely, if they have a continual supply of nutrients, and thus are said to be "immortal."†   (source)
  • Severo had to pay for all the damage and ordered the dog tied up in the courtyard, but Clara had another fit and the decision was indefinitely postponed.†   (source)
  • Lokhay had worked well, but we both wondered if its mystical tribal folklore could hold out indefinitely in the face of the wounded and somewhat embarrassed Taliban and al Qaeda fighters.†   (source)
  • Companies can continue at that level indefinitely, in a state of low-level equilibrium, serving a small but loyal audience.†   (source)
  • As dragons can remain in their eggs indefinitely, time is of no concern, nor is the infant harmed.†   (source)
  • They cannot go on indefinitely risking exposure of the Emperor's part in this.†   (source)
  • But I'm sure you understand that Mrs. Murphy, generous hearted as she is, can't take you in indefinitely.†   (source)
  • But that doesn't mean my life has to be on hold indefinitely.†   (source)
  • We made no sound as we climbed out of the valley into a larger forest that stretched indefinitely in front of us.†   (source)
  • Even so, over the next nine weeks his weight fell from 168 to 115 pounds, and the warden was warned that forced-feeding alone could not keep the patient alive indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Because he's the one she has to live with, you know, indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Work/release canceled, indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Even in Mexico they cannot keep you indefinitely.†   (source)
  • He knew he couldn't leave his car at the store indefinitely, but all at once, he was just so tired.†   (source)
  • I told them that we couldn't keep the body indefinitely, and they said they 'aimed to come and haul it away as soon as they could get a horse and wagon.'†   (source)
  • Two years of holiday could not be extended indefinitely.†   (source)
  • We can extend this progression indefinitely; there is no absolute standard of magnitude.†   (source)
  • They knew it wasn't a good idea to stand around indefinitely and when they reached 157th Street and looked for the young man's address, they found there was no such number.†   (source)
  • Mick and Mack have been suspended indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Did Ameh Bozorg expect me to live indefinitely in isolation and contempt?†   (source)
  • It moved no faster than a jog, except that it could maintain this pace indefinitely.†   (source)
  • He continued, "Indeed, it may be necessary to keep the estate open indefinitely to administer the education trust we're talking about."†   (source)
  • 6 = 21x (22 — l) 28 = 22x (23 — l) 496 = 24x (25 — l) 8,128 = 26x (27 — l) She could go on indefinitely without finding any number that would break the rule.†   (source)
  • Something as simple as getting a judge approved by the Senate for an open spot in a federal court is stymied when the senator in charge of the subcommittee orders that the proceedings be halted indefinitely.†   (source)
  • I hope the thinning process will not go on indefinitely, or I shall become a wraith.†   (source)
  • If she were beside him, Adams wrote, he could stay on indefinitely, "proud and happy as a bridegroom."†   (source)
  • And one-half of their body weight almost indefinitely.†   (source)
  • "Those toys were not meant to engage in debate, much less function indefinitely," he said, "just to keep a semblance of order until I could assume my place on the Silver Throne.†   (source)
  • Kuribayashi had absorbed the central lesson of Normandy: No matter how strong your defense, you cannot stop an American invasion on the beach indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Actually, I believe Thomas was meant to serve indefinitely, as long as he proves useful in translating the Books of Histories.†   (source)
  • But now we were having to save the funnies indefinitely, and sometimes the newspaper got taken to start a fire with before I could tear out the page.†   (source)
  • Almost any one of the components mentioned can be expanded on indefinitely.†   (source)
  • And it was as though I myself was being dispossessed of some painful yet precious thing which I could not bear to lose; something confounding, like a rotted tooth that one would rather suffer indefinitely than endure the short, violent eruption of pain that would mark its removal.†   (source)
  • Manpower's limited; which of us can keep up a nonproductive surveillance indefinitely?†   (source)
  • This never happens, for a perfectly simple reason: growth cannot continue indefinitely under "ideal circumstances."†   (source)
  • Sobukwe's sentence had ended in 1963, but under what became known as the Sobukwe clause of the General Law Amendment Act of 1963, the minister of justice could hold political prisoners indefinitely without charge.†   (source)
  • When I ask about his preference in books, he can go on indefinitely...apparently he has no real preference except for the written word itself.†   (source)
  • He just knew it was an easy promise to make and because the Basilica was in Mexico City, it was just as easy to postpone indefinitely.†   (source)
  • And then another, indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Depending on the outcome of that, she'll leave for DC right away to find a place, or she'll settle back here indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Indefinitely?†   (source)
  • CHARLEY KAMINSKY: Indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Their selfish love of their treasure can sustain them indefinitely, and Icingdeath's hoard, though small compared to the vast mounds of gold collected by the huge reds and blues that lived in more populated areas, was the largest of any of the tundra-dwelling dragons.†   (source)
  • Instead the wedding was postponed indefinitely, and Clary could hear her crying through the walls at night.†   (source)
  • He inhabited a gray winter fog on a distant elk mountain where hunters are lost indefinitely and their own bones mark the boundaries.†   (source)
  • His was a low-key style, the sort certain people can sustain indefinitely.†   (source)
  • You can't go on abusing the body indefinitely, year in, year out—regardless of what you think.†   (source)
  • But I steel myself, for though it would be perfectly pleasant to stay indefinitely (and idle with Veronica Como), I don't want the messiness of further diagnoses and tests and proposed courses of treatment—in a phrase, the complications of complications.†   (source)
  • He thought, with some amusement, that this could go on indefinitely, but when she'd finished blotting her fingers she placed her cookie on the handkerchief and then folded the handkerchief carefully, like someone wrapping a package, and gave it to him.†   (source)
  • Where everything floats indefinitely.†   (source)
  • I cannot keep you here indefinitely, the sooner you go the better.†   (source)
  • Would I have to stay here indefinitely or ask for welfare?†   (source)
  • I might have stayed indefinitely, but I had to go to Monterey to send off my absentee ballot.†   (source)
  • But it was plain that she could not go on talking about such a man and such a past indefinitely, hence this firmly defined interruption.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, Evgraf's negotations with the hospital dragged on, and the start of Yurii Andreievich's new job was indefinitely postponed.†   (source)
  • She surely would not be able to lie to him indefinitely about his father, for one day he would be old enough to realize that it was not his father's name he bore.†   (source)
  • If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.   (source)
    indefinitely = for a long time
  • We snorkeled (well, I snorkeled while he flaunted his ability to go without oxygen indefinitely).†   (source)
  • The passageway stretched out indefinitely in both directions, left and right.†   (source)
  • Hardtack and vitamins keep indefinitely.†   (source)
  • You can't lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Shall the Church be permitted to influence indefinitely with murder and extortion?†   (source)
  • You can't couple a minimum access to food with an expanding population indefinitely.†   (source)
  • The presence of telomerase meant cells could keep regenerating their telomeres indefinitely.†   (source)
  • She couldn't stay in these woods indefinitely.†   (source)
  • You are also on phone restriction indefinitely.†   (source)
  • One false deduction about the machine and you can get hung up indefinitely.†   (source)
  • She believed he would go on as they had, indefinitely.†   (source)
  • For that offense, our study privileges were being suspended indefinitely.†   (source)
  • All navy and marine personnel are about to have their duty tours extended indefinitely.†   (source)
  • But if we are stuck here indefinitely, then—†   (source)
  • She's got a weapon that if necessary can convert solar energy into deadly rays of power, so that could last indefinitely.†   (source)
  • But they were both thinking it—that no one knew where they were, which afforded the authorities, whoever it was who wanted them kept here, complete and unchecked power to keep them detained and hidden indefinitely.†   (source)
  • They moved on and on and on ....Muscles reached a stage of mechanical aching that seemed to stretch out indefinitely, but Paul saw that the beckoning, escarpment ahead of them had climbed higher.†   (source)
  • I wanted to believe they promised a breakthrough, but such optimism seems delusional now Pete Snyder's schedule will allow only one lesson a month or so, and Lamp isn't going to keep a light on for Nathaniel indefinitely.†   (source)
  • One night he decided to follow her all the way, to put an end to a situation that threatened to continue indefinitely.†   (source)
  • The union leaders were either in jail or dead, political parties had been indefinitely recessed, and all student-worker organizations, and even professional associations, had been dismantled.†   (source)
  • But normal human cells—either in culture or in the human body—can't grow indefinitely like cancer cells.†   (source)
  • We're traveling light; Evan thought we could reach Wright-Patterson in two or three nights, barring an unexpected delay like another blizzard or one of us getting killed—or both of us getting killed, which would delay the operation indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Scientists knew from studying HeLa that cancer cells could divide indefinitely, and they'd speculated for years about whether cancer was caused by an error in the mechanism that made cells die when they reached their Hayflick Limit.†   (source)
  • After a few months Blanca realized that she could not hold him prisoner indefinitely and gave up her plans to reduce his spirit in order to make him her permanent lover.†   (source)
  • But he immediately softened his voice and begged her to leave before the police came in, because he was in a position to know that the government was not going to let them stay indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Often indefinitely.†   (source)
  • He warned the country that the teamsters were in the pay of the imperialists and that they would stay out on strike indefinitely; people would be wise, he said, to plant their own vegetables in their yards and on their terraces, at least until another solution was found.†   (source)
  • If a dragon has done this, the Eldunari will outlast the decay of their flesh, and a dragon's essence may live on indefinitely.†   (source)
  • "Indefinitely," said Robert, and Helen sank down into her chair, Aline at her side, her face a mask of grief and shock.†   (source)
  • Shocked by this realization, a part of Max had clung to the absurd hope that the silence would continue indefinitely.†   (source)
  • It reduced Rusty's shortages to a few days' pay — but Blackie had him keep the job, thereby postponing the cash reckoning indefinitely.†   (source)
  • There was still the Seeker to consider, but maybe she would give up someday, and then I could stay here indefinitely with the humans I loved.†   (source)
  • If we can stay alive indefinitely—".†   (source)
  • Though he later denied it, Fitzsimmons evidently suspended his no-whip rule indefinitely with Seabiscuit.†   (source)
  • But you would keep him safe, marry him to some member of your court, have him to dance attendance on you indefinitely, tied safely to leading strings?†   (source)
  • I didn't want her officially listed as a runaway, as I was afraid the designation would remain indefinitely on her personal records, and I knew I could count on Officer Como to keep a watch on the place and its frequent visitors—mostly men in their twenties and thirties, many, according to her, known troublemakers and felons—and be publicly discreet about Sunny's habitation.†   (source)
  • He was standing with the wind at his back, like that mule, and he felt he could stand there indefinitely, maybe forever, like a fence post or a tree.†   (source)
  • FEB. 11—Just hours after the crash last night of a National Airlines DC-6 into the field behind the Janet Memorial Home, the third such disaster in eight weeks, the Port Authority closed down Newark Airport "pending further investigation," and Mayor Kirk has promised it will be shut indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Even if Hunter had asked, even if she'd wanted to, Lee couldn't go on indefinitely in this unscheduled, unplanned existence.†   (source)
  • Normally I'd hate to get in the way of a friend's love life, but I really don't care for standing out here in this hallway indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Since the darts could be recovered and re-envenomed, it was a gun which would last almost indefinitely; she had chosen it for this reason over cartridge or energy guns.†   (source)
  • He suspended his end of the practice indefinitely, leaving his patients to the ministrations of his assistant, Seymour Katz.†   (source)
  • If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.†   (source)
  • You know we can't stay here indefinitely.†   (source)
  • They have a great affection for each other; why separate them indefinitely?†   (source)
  • The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely, imagining.†   (source)
  • Catherine Barkley was greatly liked by the nurses because she would do night duty indefinitely.†   (source)
  • You couldn't do these things indefinitely.†   (source)
  • If her stay was pleasant, she would remain indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Eugene turned his pallid face away, indefinitely.†   (source)
  • But even with this thought, she would pray fervently that he would remain indefinitely.†   (source)
  • For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely.†   (source)
  • "But, alas," the Director shook his head, "we can't bokanovskify indefinitely."†   (source)
  • I was happy and would have continued to sell the newspaper and its magazine supplement indefinitely had it not been for the racial pride of a friend of the family.†   (source)
  • Eugene turned away indefinitely, craned his neck convulsively, lifted one foot sharply from the ground.†   (source)
  • But as the days went by, a fear grew up that the calamity might last indefinitely, and then the ending of the plague became the target of all hopes.†   (source)
  • Their luck would hold indefinitely, and they would carry on their intrigue, just like this, for the remainder of their natural lives.†   (source)
  • A book whose last page was identical with the first, a book which had the possibility of continuing indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Without his influence the amendment might have been long delayed, though it is hardly con-ceivable that it could have been held off indefinitely.†   (source)
  • But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely.†   (source)
  • A virile new Britain cannot continue indefinitely to be traduced in the eyes, or rather ears, of the world by the effete languors of Langham Place, brazenly masquerading as "standard English."†   (source)
  • He launched into a long harangue to the effect that some folks were getting fed up, that it was always the same people had all the jam, and things couldn't go on like that indefinitely, one day there'd be-he rubbed his hands—"a fine old row."†   (source)
  • For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.†   (source)
  • He had worked hard for it, so he could marry Suellen in the spring and if he parted with it, his wedding would be postponed indefinitely.†   (source)
  • They seemed to have imagined that it could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else.†   (source)
  • "Say," she began, laughing indefinitely behind her hand, and nudging Gant, "she'll have to scrooch up, won't she?†   (source)
  • The inhabitants of these areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually from conqueror to conqueror, and are expended like so much coal or oil in the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, to control more labor power, to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, and so on indefinitely.†   (source)
  • They were all crying together; and, intoxicated by the noise, the unanimity, the sense of rhythmical atonement, they might, it seemed, have gone on for hours-almost indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Stevie isn't built—" He would have continued indefinitely in this strain, but Helen checked him with weary finality.†   (source)
  • You could laugh softly at them and when they came flying to see why you laughed, you could refuse to tell them and laugh harder and keep them around indefinitely trying to find out.†   (source)
  • Repeated indefinitely, as though by a train of mirrors, two faces, one a hairless and freckled moon haloed in orange, the other a thin, beaked bird-mask, stubbly with two days' beard, turned angrily towards him.†   (source)
  • Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!" he exclaimed, indefinitely but violently, and then as he strode about, he gave way to loud, bitter, forced laughter.†   (source)
  • He had chronic bronchitis, but many old men had that and lived on indefinitely.†   (source)
  • His mother could not have concealed it from him indefinitely.†   (source)
  • —going to leave Cadiz and cruise in distant seas indefinitely, for the health of your family?†   (source)
  • It gave her the promise and pretext to keep the children indefinitely.†   (source)
  • One might go on asking such questions indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Society is based on the family, and the clever wastrel can exploit this indefinitely.†   (source)
  • All the time he was still under chloroform, and every minute was stretched out indefinitely.†   (source)
  • It won't do to let you stay down there indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Digging began usually at six o'clock and extended indefinitely into the dusk or moonlight.†   (source)
  • You start as a messenger or a teller, I believe, and from that you go up—almost indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Tibby, hurry up through; I can't hold this gate indefinitely.†   (source)
  • It was evident that he was prepared to wait indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Starting from the favor of the tribune, she carried him forward indefinitely.†   (source)
  • I'll make a fermented batter from its pulp that'll keep indefinitely without spoiling.†   (source)
  • He lived thus indefinitely,— stupidly, as Courfeyrac said.†   (source)
  • I can't keep it up indefinitely; she oughtn't to expect that, you know.†   (source)
  • The indefiniteness consists in your imagining that I am free.†   (source)
  • What indefiniteness is there in the position?†   (source)
  • And by keeping the pipe firmly in his mouth he could prolong indefinitely the dumb-show of suffocation and hilarity.†   (source)
  • He wears a black frock coat, a white waistcoat (it is bright spring weather), and trousers, neither black nor perceptibly blue, of one of those indefinitely mixed hues which the modern clothier has produced to harmonize with the religions of respectable men.†   (source)
  • He loitered about indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Trimming beef off the bones by the hundred-weight, while standing up from early morning till late at night, with heavy boots on and the floor always damp and full of puddles, liable to be thrown out of work indefinitely because of a slackening in the trade, liable again to be kept overtime in rush seasons, and be worked till she trembled in every nerve and lost her grip on her slimy knife, and gave herself a poisoned wound—that was the new life that unfolded itself before Marija.†   (source)
  • She must not linger there indefinitely.†   (source)
  • But given the chance to listen often to Herr Settembrini and to have him lend a helping conversational hand, I think I almost might want to stay feverish indefinitely and just sit tight here with you all.†   (source)
  • Thereafter the old cattleman sent for El Paso and Douglas newspapers, wrote to ranchmen he knew on the big bend of the Rio Grande, and he would talk indefinitely to any one who would listen to him.†   (source)
  • Dohmler told Warren we would take the case if he would agree to keep away from his daughter indefinitely, with an absolute minimum of five years.†   (source)
  • Her mother chimed in to the same tune: a certain way she had of making her labours in the house seem heavier than they were by prolonging them indefinitely, also weighed in the argument.†   (source)
  • 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)
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