How to Use continuum in a Sentence

continuum

noun

• His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the continuum between charitable and self-serving.
• Death was not a punctuation but a hyphen or em dash in the continuum of life.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 4 July 2017
• Patents, though, are only one cobblestone in the continuum of invention that paves the way to progress.
  — Daniel C. Schlenoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2017
• Another reason why White couldn't break the space-time continuum?
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 30 May 2017
• To varying extents, many of us are biological hybrids on a male-female continuum.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2017
• Bell, who shares a little career D.N.A. with each, is well positioned to join that continuum shortly.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 8 June 2017
• Back to the Future’ movies, was given a speeding ticket recently for going the exact speed that broke the space-time continuum in the classic films.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 31 May 2017
• Visitors are offered a continuum of visual experiences rather than a collection of works on display.
  — Thomas Gebremedhin, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
• On the continuum between with-the-program loyalty and pecker-in-my-pocket loyalty, Trump clearly wants the latter.
  — Jeff Shesol, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017
• The use of the word thug is a part of that history and continuum.
  — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2020
• At that point, rip a hole in the space-time continuum, begin anew, and try to vex the Veks again.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2018
• The space-time continuum is funny like that near the comet.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 22 July 2018
• The links held up when the researchers looked at a continuum of starting times.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Seen as a continuum, there is no end in sight to this tragic series of events.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Morikawa, style-wise, falls somewhere in the middle on the continuum of recent Cal greats.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• 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
• The columns are decidedly Egyptian in style, asserting the foundational contributions of Black culture and forming a continuum between the vernacular contributions of both the ancient society and the artist’s own community.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2024
• In other words, the films sometimes get lost in a continuum of influence and necessity to an informed discourse, rather than being recognized for their aesthetic or rhetorical merits.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024