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.
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The money raised will be used to pay for medical bills, therapy and continual health treatment costs.
— Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2021 -
The craft brewing industry’s continual run of positive growth rates has come to a halt due to the pandemic.
— Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021 -
Take a page out of the chapel’s book—create a five- or 10-year road map with benchmarks and continual progress evaluation.
— Aparna Prabhakar, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024 -
This means that food-insecure households don’t have enough food to meet the needs of all their members on a continual basis due to a lack of money and resources.
— Jessica Jones, M.s., R.d.n., SELF, 18 Mar. 2021 -
Other studies failed to show a correlation between safer gun use and continual training.
— Cole Lauterbach, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2021 -
Barnatan’s continual deference to the MOB and delicate touch could not be heard any other way.
— Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2021 -
But this made sense to me: In our attachments, whether to objects or others, there exists a continual fluctuation of our energies.
— Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021 -
Microaggressions are constant and continual in the life experience of people of color.
— Derald Wing Sue, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2021 -
This requires patients to keep returning to deliver samples, and the continual back-and-forth is what can produce the recurring angst of patients and families.
— Haim Neerman, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021 -
The month has been a continual celebration of women and their empowerment into becoming future leaders.
— Rick Menning, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Mar. 2021 -
Tséyi’, as Canyon de Chelly is called in Navajo, has over 5,000 years of continual human occupancy.
— David Bressan, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021 -
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 -
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 -
And, with continual use your beard will become soft as ice cream.
— Joseph Cheatham, Men's Health, 30 June 2023 -
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 -
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 -
When queried about what drives Pamela Hopkins’ continual success in the country music scene, Stover quickly credited her relentless work ethic and her knack for storytelling.
— Spin Contributor, SPIN, 1 Oct. 2024
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