How to Use incessant in a Sentence

incessant

adjective
  • The incessant buzzing of an Israeli drone fills the room.
    Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Evenings are dark, devoid of the incessant noises of warmer months, clear and cold.
    Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The horses that survived had run wild through the suburb, crazed by the incessant shelling.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
  • The crowd appeared to agree, and the remaining racers were called out of the blocks for the restart because of incessant booing.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • Here are four quick tips for dealing with even the most incessant critic: 1.
    Michael McMullen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The friendly folks in St. Louis are making Phillies fans blush with their incessant booing over the team’s worst start in 50 years.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 7 May 2023
  • The curtains blew in all night, and the surf was incessant, unruly, and somehow soothing.
    Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Why put up with incessant taunts and threats from out-of-control parents?
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Here, even Ye’s incessant trolling of Davidson has a sort of brazen liveliness to it.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2022
  • At the time, Mobius argued that investors hadn’t priced in the Fed’s incessant rate hikes, which could cause stocks to tumble.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
  • No less worrying to Biden was the reaction—or lack of it—to Trump’s incessant threats.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Much of the now-fallow farmland has turned to dust that’s an incessant headache for residents.
    Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The attack became one of the latest in an incessant wave of gun violence across the nation.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • The siege and the incessant bombardment has disrupted every facet of life in Gaza.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The soundtrack of the Celtics’ summer is incessant Kevin Durant trade rumors.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The incessant question would have been: Could the team that won 114 regular season games flop?
    Jack Curry, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • My now 19-year-old daughter nearly pushed us over the edge with her incessant crying during the first three months of her life.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • In the southern city of Mariupol, Russian shelling is so incessant that the dead are wrapped in blankets and hurried to a mass grave.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • But this incessant drive to achieve often comes at the cost of community.
    Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Kash, who goes by the one name, has seen and heard and smelled it all: the incessant fentanyl dealing, the daily overdoses, the scams, the screams, the stench, the pop-up marketplaces of hot goods.
    J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Especially in Los Angeles, a city known for its incessant need to stay ahead of the curve.
    Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • But the pope’s gestures and incessant speeches seeking respect for the earth had not slowed climate change down.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • More than 1,000 people have died, and tens of millions more have been affected by months of incessant rain.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Dorothy drove him crazy with her incessant talk of the situation in Europe.
    New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • After all, who can sleep to the soundtrack of incessant newborn crying?
    Cheryl Maguire, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
  • John was a kinetic ball of incessant energy who pushed us all to up our stage game.
    Stephanie Mendez, SPIN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But might the almost-incessant slew of industry layoffs have more to do with mimicry than money?
    Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Pop culture needs a consistent diet of this junk food to meet our incessant UFO hunger.
    Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 27 June 2023
  • The sound of Lagerfeld’s incessant scribbling pen plays on the speakers overhead as a massive video projected on the wall shows the sketches in progress.
    Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 4 May 2023
  • But over the next four days, the issue produced an incessant array of noises — beating, clicking and more rustling.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023

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