Example sentences for: continent

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

  • Then there was the young man who had come over from Yorkshire to serve an apprenticeship on the Continent.

  • Some people still suggest that Madeira is part of the lost continent of Atlantis, and though it has become easier and easier to get there, the island still seems otherworldly.

  • Gran Canaria is known, not without reason, as the “continent in miniature.”

  • Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (raising funds, balancing budgets, recruiting professors, planning conferences), served as director of editorial content for a publishing imprint he co-founded, was a consultant on Steven Spielberg's Amistad , scripted and hosted a Frontline documentary on the black bourgeoisie, and developed a six-part BBC-PBS documentary on Africa--the entire continent.

  • Inland from Almería lies one of the most un-European landscapes on the European continent.


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