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sooner or later

Idioms  
  1. Eventually, at some unspecified future time, as in Sooner or later we'll have to answer that letter, or It's bound to stop raining sooner or later. This term, which generally implies that some future event is certain to happen, was first recorded in 1577.


Example Sentences

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Netflix is the utility streamer, where all producers want their shows to turn up sooner or later.

From The Wall Street Journal

If they were all saving their money, then sooner or later Daisy’s leg would be fixed up.

From Literature

Sooner or later, I would still have to go home.

From Literature

Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs.

From Salon

He and Pa were pretty close, and I’d get found out sooner or later if I ran.

From Literature