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Example sentences for: continental

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Then we take a similar journey with Jackie (Watson), who, denied a proper childhood and family life, pines away in foreign capitals, behaves with increasing waywardness and vulgarity (she adopts a bogus Continental accent), and expires in near solitude, with only her loyal sister to remind her of God's love.
However , Mount Baker, in Washington state, appears to have been certified by the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as setting a record last year for "the most snowfall ever measured in the United States [Chatterbox presumes that means the continental United States] in a single season."
Here you can see the original train that travelled on Europe’s first continental underground railway in 1896 — it’s hardly different to those on the current Millennium line.
This strangely satisfying form of literary eavesdropping, achieved by a simple re-sorting of customers' e-mail domain names, shipping addresses, and purchases, is not limited to the continental United States.
While the bourgeoisie’s red-brick or stone houses are clearly inspired by Georgian and Victorian London and grander residences by the country houses and châteaux of continental Europe, the working-class row houses with outside iron staircases leading to upper floors (thus saving space inside) are a more characteristic Montréal feature.