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Example sentences for: continent

How can you use “continent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlán.
Although I've made my affections for her very clear, she has turned me down for dates because she prefers the company of her "Euroclique," a group of grad students also from "The Continent."
Carey even reclaims that slighted continent, Australia.
South Africa's Johannesburg Star, commenting in an editorial on President Nelson Mandela's appeal to African leaders this week to rid their continent of tyranny, was just as pessimistic: "A man-made famine in Sudan, the current border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and ongoing difficulties in bringing peace to Rwanda are among outrages that suggest the end of tyranny in Africa is a long way off."
The Mail also quoted a French farmers' leader as saying, "England is an island--it is easier to blockade than the Continent."