Example sentences for: continental

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

  • In the 1780s there had been a nation-wide protest against grant of pension by the Congress to officers who had served in the Continental Army during the American War of Independence.

  • 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.

  • Production is particularly high along the sea ice edge, he says, because the ice is thinner, which allows more sunlight to penetrate, and because ocean mixing processes along the continental shelf cause an upwelling of nutrient-rich deep water.

  • Because of Turpan’s location in the Tarim Basin — at 79 m (260 ft) below sea level, this is the second-deepest continental basin in the world — it’s startling to discover here a sizeable city where houses are supplied with electricity and running water and shady trees line the streets.

  • In addition, continental skeptics about the euro have been buying pounds as a refuge.


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