Example sentences for: continental

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

  • The expensive restaurants still serve "continental cuisine."

  • The most embarrassing Portuguese malapropism I committed took place in Brazil, where terms innocuous in continental Portuguese have transmuted into dangerous slang.

  • The last 100 million years have seen both a substantial steepening in latitudinal diversity gradients and the fragmentation of continental land masses (Crame 2001).

  • Barnum's, the Ritz, the Roxy, the Limelight, the Cat Club, Club USA, the Palladium, the Mudd Club, AM/PM, Magique, the Underground, MK, Area, the Milk Bar, Nell's, the Jefferson, the Surf Club, the Peppermint Lounge, the Pyramid Club, the Continental, Infinity, Hurrah, that club at Hudson and Vandam whose name I can't remember, Café Society, Xenon, the Red Parrot, Au Bar, the World, Club A, Heat, Berlin, Danceteria, Interferon, Bond's, Regine's, and New York, New York.

  • When people speak of such pan-ethnic continental clans, they are merely regurgitating American definitions of race.


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