How to Use continuous in a Sentence

continuous

adjective
  • The batteries provide enough power for up to five hours of continuous use.
  • The phrases “am seeing,” “had been seeing,” and “is being seen” are all in continuous tenses.
  • The album is divided into different tracks, but it is really one continuous song.
  • Badie said that the Key Bridge is a continuous steel truss bridge.
    NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Plans show the 2 miles would be widened to three, 12-foot-wide lanes with a continuous left-hand turning lane.
    Lynn Kutter, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
  • And once charged, the battery can last up to 15 hours for continuous warming.
    Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The continuous rain throughout the day will bring a flooding threat to the Mid-Atlantic on Sunday.
    Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party...
    Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And then just keep watching it on a continuous loop for the next four months until Survivor is back in our lives.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 May 2023
  • The blue of the sky seemed deep, continuous, uniform and unsullied.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Here there is one acre of continuous surprises, from the rose garden to the vegetable patch.
    ELLE Decor, 7 June 2023
  • With its daily advancements and the continuous roll-out of new tools.
    David Marley, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Long-term and continuous use can also create a buildup of carbon monoxide in the home.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Keep in Mind The hose provided for continuous draining is a bit short.
    Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, the hat and the turtle were two shapes in a continuous family of polygons, all of which were aperiodic and tiled in the same way.
    Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The rechargeable Li-Po battery lasts up to six months on a single charge (based on the backlight being off and two hours of continuous use per day).
    Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Morath, who previously served on the DISD board, said the changes to the system are part of the state’s plan to push for continuous improvement in its public schools.
    Talia Richman, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
  • Just piece them together to create continuous lines, as they will be smoothed over in rolling.
    Alana Allred, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • When it was forced to curtail hours, Horn’s was open from 7 a.m. until 1 a.m. with continuous service.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Combined, the two segments make for nearly 2.3 miles of continuous trail.
    Jared Quigg, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • As the name might imply, CPAP machines provide a continuous flow of air through tubing into a mask worn across the nose and often mouth.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • Hart said there’s currently no means of taking a continuous walk through vast stretches of coast redwoods — the tallest trees on Earth.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Get two for a continuous flat surface over all four burners.
    Matt Jancer, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • This was the key: the recognition that movement is both discrete and continuous, made up of units but also fluid.
    Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024
  • This is one of the most affordable on this list, yet feels far more expensive and holds up well to continuous in-season wear and washing.
    Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Lukashenka depends on Putin to help in his continuous crackdowns to prop up the Belarusian regime.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • While on duty in 2016, a traffic accident left him with continuous neck and back pain.
    Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The intense line of storms had traveled a continuous distance of more than 650 miles from west of Houston to south of Tallahassee.
    Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Choose plants that bloom at different times throughout the year to provide a continuous nectar source.
    The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But written complaints on the walls of not being withdrawn suggest that one detachment was stationed at the bar for a continuous amount of time.
    Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 14 June 2023

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