Example sentences for: continual

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

  • LSC and our grantees live and work in a world that is marked by continual challenges and crises.

  • For many are of a countrary opinion, that the English tongue was then in the height of its perfection; that from Jonson's time to ours it has been in a continual declination, like that of the Romans from the age of Virgil to Statius, but Quintilian himself so much complains, under the person of Secundus, in his famous dialogue de Causis corruptae Eloquentiae.

  • Ironists run a continual risk: if they nudge too hard and use too broad an irony, they risk sounding facetious; if they stay deadpan and use too subtle an irony, they sound in earnest and risk being taken literally.

  • If language is a continual exercise in combination and permutation, it makes sense that such expressions, or lusus linguae , will always be with us.

  • Writing in the New York Review of Books , Luc Sante defends DeLillo against the perennial charge that his novels are schematic: "Large thematic strokes may define his architecture, but within lies continual surprise at the fluidity and resilience of the human condition."


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