How to Use continuity in a Sentence

continuity

noun
  • There's a problem with the movie's continuity.
  • The art historian is studying the continuities between the painter's works and those of her followers.
  • The continuity comes from the colors in the artwork and the types of frames.
    Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Near the top of the list, if not No. 1, is the continuity of the No. 14 Beavers’ coaching staff.
    oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2022
  • My main goal is to serve the brand and to have continuity.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • In our minds, this is in continuity, this is a part of Riverdale.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • With a top 40 pop feel to each of the songs, there’s a plenty of continuity here.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2022
  • That’s the great thing about continuity and the great thing about success.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The continuity on those three sides of the ball shows up in how these guys are playing,.
    Scott Patsko, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The line, plagued by a lack of continuity, got off to a rocky start last season.
    Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
  • If continuity was off, Dane would point that out and go, ‘Oh yeah, that’s not where the blood is.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2025
  • This is the same number of episodes as there were in season 1, which is a good sign for the show's continuity!
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But along the way, the powers that be began to play fast and loose with continuity.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 24 Apr. 2025
  • But there’s also a continuity as to how the films look.
    Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • There’s momentum, driven by the continuity of the lines, the unity of the voice.
    Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The continuity of the process is all the more noteworthy in that the date from one page to the next can sometimes jump a number of years.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • The continuity of recent DC movies is fluid, to say the least.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Like the iPhone, the MacBook Pro notch cuts into the screen continuity.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The movie goes out of its way to make a few nods to more obscure corners of the franchise's continuity.
    Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The Nets are in the process of trying to build continuity under a new coaching regime.
    C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024
  • There’s a sense of continuity, of legacy, on this record.
    Emily Lordi, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Paint the desk, floating shelves, and trim the same color for continuity.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2022
  • There is nothing wrong with continuity Gazball on nights like this, and of course, this was Tuchel’s first game.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Monarchy speaks to a deep need in people—the need for a connection with the past, and a sense of continuity across time.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The in-continuity comics, and even most of the ones outside of it, have gone through great lengths to ensure Batman doesn’t cross that line.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
  • So there was a lot of continuity just from the group having an extra year.
    Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The Ravens have played well even though there has been little continuity.
    Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • When continuity and plot logic are AWOL in your movie, who ya gonna call?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But this doesn’t feel like a time for continuity in Miami.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Ars Video The first clear result is that there is a strong continuity in the population living at Picuris.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2025

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