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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:

The Mail also quoted a French farmers' leader as saying, "England is an island--it is easier to blockade than the Continent."
By rights, it seems to me, a person's head ought to rest in peace, if not near his or her body, then at least on the same continent.
Each year since 1976, they have published a List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use or General Uselessness, and each year news media across the continent gleefully and unthinkingly report their edicts—which this year included the fairly innocuous verbs skyrocket and spearhead .
On the continent of Europe, there was harsh condemnation of both the raids and Clinton's general conduct.
On the continent, last week's decision by the British Law Lords to deny Pinochet immunity from extradition to Spain was heralded as one of major international importance.