Sentence examples for eons later from inspiring English sources

Now, eons later (in Internet time), Friendster lives on as an online gaming company aimed at Southeast Asian youth.

Eventually, the timeless town was buried by sand & eons later, explorers from Venus dug it up and found the clock.

When they exploded, they showered the universe with the debris that, eons later, ended up in the gaseous swirl that, eons after that, formed the sun and the planets of our solar system.

As children, we know what it's like, during a dull lesson, to look at the clock on the wall, and then to look again, eons later, to find that the hands have hardly moved.

Eons later, between 175 million and 45 million years ago, two separate collisions of continental plates (moving at their fastest at the speed of a growing fingernail) slowly pushed up the ancient ocean floors, forming the mountain spines running north-south through Canada and the United States.

Eons later, in a process called secondary endosymbiosis, predatory protozoa gulped down the green algae.

An eon later, in 2011, Sam Sifton wrote in The Times that the salad was "no longer really in style," but that "it still tastes terrific".

Glaciers raked the land with it an eon later.

Humor heads off most trouble ("Now, Millie, stop being so bossy"); if trouble does arise, we -- lovely pronoun, "we" -- we fix it next day, not an eon later.

In later eons would many a child of Folo ask, "Mother, from whence comes the saying 'When the cudgel hits the cake'?" And few could answer with any certainty.

So when I heard the AOL-Time Warner news last week, I recalled those Delphi days and remarked to myself how different the industry landscape looked now, such a short time -- though eons in Internet time -- later.