How to Use finite in a Sentence

finite

adjective
  • The Warriors have a finite amount of time to make a lot of changes.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • My job as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns is finite.
    Scott Patsko, cleveland, 15 June 2022
  • And here’s the key: light travels through space at a finite speed.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2023
  • And for the type of gear Russia needs, there are a finite number of sources.
    Luke McGee, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
  • There’s a finite number of slots, and all are up for changes and trades.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The work is finite, and in time the life of the psyche is resolved and turns back to normal.
    Mark Edmundson, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • My point is this: Though time is finite, it can still be bought and sold.
    Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Time is finite in the NBA, and the Pacers current core doesn’t have a ton of time left.
    Tony East, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • There were reasons to keep finite money out of the state.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 9 Aug. 2023
  • And there is only a finite amount of space and outlets to get your client in.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 May 2022
  • The one saving grace is that there’s a finite number of them.
    New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The book posits that there are two types of games: finite and infinite.
    Emily Heller, Vox, 23 Apr. 2018
  • And the amount of money the government can spend on health care is finite.
    Sally C. Pipes, Fortune, 10 July 2018
  • And in this system, there are a finite number of units.
    New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The players, meanwhile, live in a far more finite world.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Even the world’s most beloved wrestler only spends a finite amount of time performing in the ring.
    Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 10 July 2019
  • But looking back at Earth from there, the atmosphere seems thin and the world finite.
    Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • These were [a mix of] finite state machines and switch controllers.
    Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 1 July 2024
  • The sounds are finite, yet the benefits of tuning in to the film’s wavelengths are endless.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
  • And consumers have finite resources to pay for all these things.
    Adam Epstein, Quartz, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Kerr: Must find a way to break teams down in smaller, more finite areas in the final third.
    Edwin Perez, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The black hole has no finite size, but there is this abstract size of the event horizon, which is the last point that light can escape.
    Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
  • The machine is controlled by a finite set of rules and starts on an initial sequence of symbols on the tape.
    Jie Wang, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • And some of them will be fighting for the same finite pool of resources that might go to a job guarantee plan.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Some folks see everything as a finite pie—there’s only so much of it to go around.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The Paris climate goals mean the world has to stay within a finite carbon budget.
    Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Splitting the chart is a line: the finite capacity of the health care system.
    NBC News, 11 Mar. 2020
  • One key reason is that gold is a scarce, finite resource.
    Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • But the Cold War stocks are finite, slowly being exhausted.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Across astronomy, measuring this deepness in the sky adds a third dimension of distance (and of time, thanks to light’s finite speed) onto our otherwise flat maps of the universe.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2025

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