Examples of continent in a Sentence

Noun The book provides information on hotels in Britain and on the Continent. Europe and Asia are sometimes considered together to be one continent. Adjective Most children are continent by age three. a religious sect that expects its unmarried members to be completely celibate and its married adherents to maintain continent relationships

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Still, such obstacles are unlikely to seriously deter would-be migrants across the continent. — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2022 The scene is being repeated at storage facilities across the continent, in a jousting over energy between Europe and Russia that has been escalating since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February. — New York Times, 23 June 2022 Across the continent, voters have punished those in power for failing to lift them out of their misery. — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 20 June 2022 Many ordinary Europeans from across the continent—Helsinki, Madrid, Brussels—had driven their own vehicle to the transit center and were offering to take refugee families back home with them and provide free lodging. — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022 But a bumpy and uneven recovery across the continent suggests the theater business isn’t quite out of the woods yet. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 19 June 2022 Werner Bischof arrived in the United States a year before his death and spent 1953 traveling and photographing across the continent. — Vogue, 19 June 2022 While the polls are razor-thin between Petro and his populist opponent, Rodolfo Hernández, a win for the left will be just the latest of several victories across the continent. — Fox News, 18 June 2022 Europe is also bracing for a loss of Russian natural-gas supplies that power factories and households across the continent. — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 16 June 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective The 30-year-old Salvadoran cyclist had been on a cross-continent bike journey with her partner, Jake, for almost a year. — Jessica Diaz-hurtado, refinery29.com, 3 June 2022 Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2022 The Asian Cup finals tournament staged in India is Kerr's first experience of being in the sub-continent. — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022 The pair coordinated a cross-continent entrepreneurial endeavor driven by art that has helped keep craftswomen employed and businesses afloat. — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 25 Dec. 2021 In the space of five years, TV veteran Sameer Nair has built Applause Entertainment into a powerhouse supplier of Indian content that is being hungrily consumed by the sub-continent’s streaming platforms. — Patrick Frater, Variety, 23 Nov. 2021 IHS Markit ranked India the third most attractive destination for international investment in solar energy last month, while Ernst & Young considers the sub-continent the primary destination for solar funding. — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2021 After officially launching over the spring following nearly a year of beta testing, ScreenHits TV is in the midst of a global rollout throughout Europe, the Indian sub-continent and Latin and North America. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2021 The Marmaray, a cross-continent metro line that passes under the Bosphorus Strait, connects the metro system on the European and Asian sides of the city, and has recently expanded to run all the way into the suburbs on both sides of the city. — Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2021 See More

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History and Etymology for continent

Noun

(senses 1-2) borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, "land forming part of a continuous mass (as opposed to an island)," borrowed from Latin continent-, continens (short for terra continens), from continent-, continens, adjective, "uninterrupted, continuous, forming part of a continuous mass," from present participle of continēre "to hold together, restrain, have as contents"; (senses 3-4) probably borrowed from Medieval Latin continentia "container, content, tenor (of a document)," noun derivative of Latin continent-, continens, present participle of continēre — more at contain

Note: The regular outcome of Medieval Latin continentia following the rules for adopting such nouns in English would have been continence, but as this word was already in use as an abstract noun, writers may have resorted to continent. Note continent in Middle English used by the translator of Chauliac's Grande Chirurgie in the sense "content."

Adjective

Middle English contynent "abstemious, refraining from sexual intercourse," borrowed from Middle French continent, borrowed from Medieval Latin continent-, continens, going back to Latin, "restrained, not indulging in excesses," from present participle of continēre "to hold together, restrain, have as contents" — more at contain

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