How to Use continental in a Sentence

continental

adjective

• They will be touring Continental Europe.
• The hotel combines American comfort with continental elegance.
• The Xiongnu encompassed a range of tribes across a stretch of steppe about as wide as the continental United States.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The African Union is a continental body consisting of the 55 member states that make up the countries of the African continent.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
• The country is poised to be a leader for west Africa and even continental Africa in terms of economic growth.
  — Meron Demisse, Quartz, 9 Feb. 2023
• That Sargassum belt is almost twice the width of the continental United States.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
• The transmitter has a range of more than 1,800 miles, so the signal will be received just about anywhere in the continental United States.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
• But in waiting, the balloon passed over -- and could have spied on -- the most sensitive strategic sites in the continental United States.
  — Sarah Day Owen Wiskirchen, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
• To knock the price down further, Linenspa also offers free shipping in the continental US and free returns.
  — Jack Byram, Health, 20 Apr. 2023
• In that sense, India is more akin to the European Union in the continental scale of its diversity.
  — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• The city and its interiors were built over 22 weeks on the largest soundstage in continental Europe.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• National parks are the few places left in the continental United States where wild animals can roam free.
  — Zayna Syed, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2023
• That represents more than half of the continental United States.
  — Abigail Bassett, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
• Today, somebody can eat breakfast on one end of the continental United States and dinner on the other.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• In the warmer months, there’s often not a big contrast in temperature across the continental United States.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• Mammoths, mastodons, huge bison, horses, camels, very large ground sloths and giant short-faced bears all died out as the huge continental ice sheets disappeared at the end of the ice age.
  — Christopher R. Moore, Fortune, 17 June 2023
• The first of the big continental rivalries in the group stage, with Messi potentially sealing his and Argentina’s spot in the last 16.
  — Steve Douglas, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• The studio claims the setup’s yield is about three times greater in high-latitude areas than in continental climates.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2023
• Nicole is a rare storm: Only one hurricane on record has made landfall after Nov. 4 in the continental U.S.
  — Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2022
• Some of the tallest trees in continental Europe are redwoods, both giant sequoias and coast, planted in the 19th century.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• According to a study from 2010, just one hectare of land in the forest contains more tree species than are native to the continental United States and Canada combined.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
• Inmarsat used the data to determine the plane flew south into the Indian Ocean rather than bank north over continental Asia.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2024
• The sale, at about 3 cents an acre, nearly doubled the size of the United States and propelled the young country toward becoming a continental power.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• Planting one trillion trees would also require a massive amount of space — roughly the size of the continental United States.
  — Stephen Groves, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
• The area gets less than 20 inches of rain a year, on average, about one-third less than the continental United States as a whole — not nearly enough to replace the water being pumped from the ground.
  — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• And so the natural abundance of copper, think like 50 parts per million, 60 parts per million in the upper continental crust.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Sep. 2023
• The land here is dotted with hill towns that wine lovers salivate over — Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Rasteau — as the climate becomes less continental and more Mediterranean.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• So were over 90 million others across the continental United States.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• That starts with winning back-to-back La Ligas and another continental prize.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• Afro Nation, the world’s biggest music festival focused on Afrobeats music, is coming to the continental U.S. for the first time this year.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024