How to Use continuum in a Sentence

continuum

noun

• His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the continuum between charitable and self-serving.
• Works in this vein might be on the same continuum as the artists' primary projects but are more warm-up act than main performance.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Over the past the two decades, the force continuum has been taught in police academies across the nation, Haberfeld said.
  — Jerome Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• In the world of makeup right now, the two most popular trends fall on opposite and extreme ends of an aesthetic continuum.
  — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 21 May 2018
• Merely an acknowledgement that the sacred and the profane co-exist on life’s continuum.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 10 May 2018
• Researchers at Zillow also segmented their results based on where in the pricing continuum the home fell.
  — Shannon Rooney, Philly.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• The color intensity has a continuum throughout the house — the study’s palette of bluish green with red feels powerful, while the living room has that great pump-kin color and big art.
  — Carrie Nieman Culpepper, House Beautiful, 9 Apr. 2018
• Jeana Ross, that money will go toward funding grants for a pilot program to strengthen the Pre-K through third grade learning continuum.
  — Trisha Powell Crain, AL.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• The investigation of Cohen, in particular, will reveal just where along that continuum the truth lies.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Apr. 2018
• And yet, all three programs felt very much part of a continuum — and not just because the audience always sat politely, the performers had dressed up for the occasion, and nobody ever broke a sweat.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• The use of the word thug is a part of that history and continuum.
  — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2020
• The space-time continuum is funny like that near the comet.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 22 July 2018
• The nature of it being a part of a continuum that persists to this day.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• Just don’t expect this one to rip through the space-time continuum IRL.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2022
• So everyone needs to be aware of this in the care continuum.
  — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 July 2018
• Think of a car as being on a continuum: Somewhere between the shiny new car and its place on the scrap pile is (drum roll) you.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
• Giegerich said that in the acute care arena, nurses are needed across the continuum of care.
  — Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2020
• One of the saddest things to me in this moment is that people have broken up the continuum.
  — Cynthia R. Greenlee, SELF, 16 Sep. 2021
• The program started in 1908 with founders who wanted this aspect of health care as part of the continuum of care.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
• Apart from faith, there is a wide continuum of different views on what can or could be done.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• They got swallowed by points on their continuum that were just too hard.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• Like positive habits, bad habits exist on a continuum of easy to change and hard to change.
  — Popular Science, 31 Dec. 2019
• This trunk rattler wants to rip your brain through the space-time continuum onto a dance floor of true freedom.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 July 2019
• Gaza’s cuisine is part of the culinary continuum of the Levant.
  — The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
• Americans seemed to view a Jew saying such a thing on a continuum from strange to stupid.
  — WSJ, 27 Feb. 2022
• Entrepreneurs and investors are now stepping up to solve the challenges in the care continuum.
  — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2021
• At one end of this continuum would be somebody in a coma.
  — Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
• Scientists describe the risk as a continuum from high to low; few believe the risk is high at 26 feet.
  — Joanne Silberner, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• Long Beach, Glendale and Los Angeles each have their own continuum of care.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
• All women were on a continuum of risk during pregnancy and birth.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024