How to Use continual in a Sentence

continual

adjective

• The country has been in a continual state of war since it began fighting for its independence.
• The continual interruptions by the student were annoying the teacher.
• This week we experienced days of continual sunshine.
• Life for a woman should not be a continual replay of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
  — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2023
• My sit spot is in a state of continual flux: Vines overtake shrubs, mushrooms sprout, the tide goes in and out.
  — Sadie Dingfelder, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
• The good outweighs the bad here but the continual grinding of hate and false statements is very taxing.
  — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2023
• But the most sort of continual emotion of Tanya was always grief.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023
• In this case it was caused by the continual strong winds from one direction to the other.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• The sheer number of users is up, too, and the abundance and low price of P2P meth may enable more continual use among them.
  — Sam Quinones, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
• Among the keys to making continual progress will be the defensive end of the field, where the team allowed three or more goals in half of its games.
  — Brent Kennedy, baltimoresun.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• Skim-ice has kept me from my beloved small lake passion and continual snow events just flat out stink.
  — Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Mar. 2021
• And, with continual use your beard will become soft as ice cream.
  — Joseph Cheatham, Men's Health, 30 June 2023
• The art of selling has seen continual disruption in the last few decades.
  — Matt Ranta, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• Both people and pets shed hair and dead skin cells on a continual basis.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
• The closeness of the lines is a continual source of unease, Private Murdza said.
  — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• It’s a continual process of warding off a wandering mind, and putting your attention to the task at hand.
  — Paul Christianson, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• Beyond the creek, the route swings back uphill on one of a continual string of ups and downs that adds up to over 1,100 feet of total elevation change for the hike.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2023
• The telescope will capture a huge swath of the sky in the Southern hemisphere and take continual pictures to record a sort of movie that will show the universe changing.
  — NBC News, 10 May 2021
• The continual growth allows the roots of native prairie plants to grow deep underground.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
• It’s a continual series of 47 named rapids, with many classified as IV and IV+.
  — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
• Both sunlight and the additions keep the collage in continual flux.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Parts of the West and the Intermountain West have been in near continual drought conditions for decades.
  — Joe Sutton, CNN, 8 June 2021
• Rhoden calls it a kind of love letter to Bowie as the music world’s king of continual reinvention.
  — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Try out castor oil at night on your lashes to boost length and thickness with continual use.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2024
• If your headphones are low on juice, simply plug them in for 10 minutes to gain up to five hours of continual playback.
  — Laura Lu, Ms, Health, 29 Nov. 2024
• Staffing has been a continual problem at the airport in recent months.
  — Melissa Yeager, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2021
• One of the key points of contention has been around the continual need for traditional office space.
  — Jonathan Kaufman, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• Because of continual use, soap and residue accumulate and slow the drain over time, leaving a smelly residue.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Aug. 2023
• That continual investment is the source of the undeniable rail safety gains over the last two decades.
  — Ian Jefferies, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• By 2026, Ukraine would lose effective air defense, allowing Russia to conduct continual large-scale bombings of military and civilian infrastructure.
  — Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025