His wide mouth seemed perpetually on the verge of laughter, but at the moment he wore an expression of sad disappointment.

They shambled, lurched, and seemed perpetually about to stumble.

Terriers, for instance, were bred to catch rats and seem perpetually in motion.

The frail old wooden building always amused him; it seemed perpetually about to fall, and yet it never had.

He seems perpetually on the verge of blowing a gasket.

But he never settles for long into any one community; his car seems perpetually to be running.

I seemed perpetually to be getting out of his way.

The staff members at Pipeline, students of the downtown scowl and the occasional shave, perpetually seem to be getting over a long, hard night.

Charles Koechlin, who died in 1950, is one of those composers whose time seems perpetually about to arrive.

Beverly seemed perpetually to be reaching a smile.