continuumin a sentence
- a vast continuum of options
- a snapshot in a continuum of change
- Henceforth, writers of fictions from wheresoever they hail, will place themselves on the continuum that begins with the one and ends with the other.† (source)
- "Continua cercando!" one yelled into a telephone.† (source)
- It took practice to stay inside the Continuum and master basic navigational skills.† (source)
- We see the child's perception as he moves through a horrifying continuum, from an idealistic family life to becoming a "prisoner of war" in his own home.† (source)
- For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style," a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant Galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle.† (source)
- The philosophy book, which is called The Meeting of East and West, by F. S. C. Northrop, suggests that greater cognizance be made of the "undifferentiated aesthetic continuum" from which the theoretic arises.† (source)
- His moody smile suggested he'd found his Genevieve, just beyond time just beyond space just beyond this continuum.† (source)
- He broadened his focus, and the individual voices clamoring for his attention subsided into a continuum of the emotions surrounding him.† (source)
- These two groups may be next to each other on the word-of-mouth continuum.† (source)
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- There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche.† (source)
- We look forward to you, alumni, coming back, an effort for you to have a continuity, a continuum, for you to help someone else who's been in your place and knows what it's like to go to Ballou.† (source)
- Vlad wagered it had to do with the space-time continuum or a cruel joke played by Fate.† (source)
- Adams had chosen to say nothing of any of his own attainments, but rather to place himself as part of a continuum, and to evoke those qualities of character that he had been raised on and that he had strived for so long to uphold.† (source)
- If one recognizes the condition of structural violence, one can understand that profound racist prejudice and outbursts of murderous violence are part of a continuum of ever-present violence in which violence is the answer to violence, and in which victims temporarily become perpetrators and then victims again.† (source)
- There were certain moments when through such a nonchalant gesture—opening a door, brushing her hair, throwing bread to the Prospect Park swans (it had something to do with motion, attitude, the tilt of head, a flow of arms, a swing of hips)—she created a continuum of beauty that was positively breath-taking.† (source)
- the smooth, unbroken, space-time continuum
- It was only the second time in her life that Alyss had been inside the Continuum.† (source)
- "I followed the princess and Hatter Madigan through the Crystal Continuum," The Cat started.† (source)
- They were reflected out of the Continuum.† (source)
- Control would be more difficult to attain than it was in the Continuum.† (source)
- It was a long, exhausting journey without the ease of travel once afforded by The Crystal Continuum.† (source)
- She described Heart Palace, the singing flowers in the royal gardens, the Crystal Continuum.† (source)
- He emerged from the Continuum and made the rest of the journey on foot.† (source)
- Dodge flew through the Continuum, the Glass Eyes gaining on him.† (source)
- The Continuum, it's…it's…disappearing!† (source)
- In front of him, the Continuum splintered in many directions.† (source)
- Alyss and Hatter were no longer in the Continuum; they raced through a pitch-dark wood.† (source)
- The tutor guided Alyss through the portal's liquid-crystal surface and into the Continuum.† (source)
- Bullet-like, Dodge raced headlong through the kaleidoscopic glitter of the Crystal Continuum.† (source)
- So she did, traveling through the Continuum piggyback.† (source)
- But as soon as she realized that she'd only been in the Continuum once before…Whoa!† (source)
- But now in July they're back and everything is at its alivest and every foot of these sloughs is humming and cricking and buzzing and chirping, a whole community of millions of living things living out their lives in a kind of benign continuum.† (source)
- The looking glass in the queen's private rooms, however, was not linked to the rest of the Continuum.† (source)
- He too would have become part of the nothingness if he hadn't hooked up with the Continuum's main artery when he did.† (source)
- Covering long distances in the Crystal Continuum was tough, nearly impossible for all but the most experienced traveler.† (source)
- Where it had once connected with the Continuum's main thoroughfare, it now simply stopped, connected to nothing.† (source)
- The most effective means of sending and retrieving sensitive Alyssian intelligence had been to use portal runners to traverse the Crystal Continuum.† (source)
- The mirrors were not connected to the Crystal Continuum and had been scavenged from labor camps raided in the first year of Alyssian activity.† (source)
- With every looking glass in the queendom smashed, the crystalline pathways that made up the Continuum were vanishing.† (source)
- Unable to maintain their equilibrium inside the Continuum, they were sucked from its main artery and reflected out of looking glasses.† (source)
- As fast as the void swallowed up what was behind them, the modest little mirror added the corresponding length of Continuum ahead of them.† (source)
- "If Redd saw us in the Continuum, she might still be watching us," General Doppelganger had observed.† (source)
- Dodge steered his body to the Continuum's edge and the general shot a cannonball spider at the attacking Glass Eyes.† (source)
- Again Alyss lost speed, would have been sucked up out of the Continuum if Hatter hadn't caught hold of her.† (source)
- He held the looking glass at an angle, aiming it so that it reflected a small portion of the Continuum, regenerating it.† (source)
- Hatter wondered whether he could learn to navigate the Pool of Tears as he did the Crystal Continuum, so that he might be able to choose his earthly destination.† (source)
- Generals Doppel and Ganger and the few who survived Redd's attack avoided the Crystal Continuum in case the invading force had already taken control of its shimmering byways.† (source)
- The Cat reentered the Crystal Continuum through the forest looking glass (its guard, the tight-lipped shrub, now more tight-lipped than ever) and reemerged in Genevieve's sitting room.† (source)
- Hatter pressed his face through the glass, peering into the Continuum, and pulled it out as General Doppelganger, Dodge, and Alyss raced up on their spirit-danes.† (source)
- Theoretically, it was possible for inexperienced Continuum travelers to discover the rebels' emergency portal; they could have been inadvertently reflected out of it.† (source)
- Most looking glasses served as portals to the Crystal Continuum, a network of byways that enabled any and every Wonderlander to enter through one looking glass and exit from another.† (source)
- Having entered the Continuum, Alyss glanced back to see the wavering image of her mother growing progressively smaller among the brilliant, crystalline surfaces along which she and Hatter traveled.† (source)
- She's in the Crystal Continuum!† (source)
- Were they doomed to race through the void, safe in this small portion of Continuum-which, had he been at leisure, Bibwit would have pointed out was no longer strictly a Continuum since it connected to nothing, and without the pocket glass it would not, in fact, continue.† (source)
- But the portal was connected to the Continuum by such an unlikely arrangement of crystal byways (courtesy of strategically placed looking glasses) that no traveler who wasn't Alyssian had ever determined its location or even learned of its existence.† (source)
- Redd's diabolically inventive mind was not to be underestimated; any remnant of the Crystal Continuum might cause her to reconstruct it in its entirety, providing her with the means to reach the plains that much sooner.† (source)
- Before the two remaining Glass Eyes could regain their equilibrium, Dodge relaxed, surrendered his body to the pull of the nearest looking glass, and was sucked up out of the Continuum, reflected out of a glass in the lobby of an apartment building.† (source)
- An artificial race with enhanced sight, strength, and speed, Glass Eyes were built for hand-to-hand combat, and they patrolled the Crystal Continuum with orders to annihilate anyone suspected of being an Alyssian.† (source)
- Dodge, Bibwit, and Alyss, General Doppelganger, Hatter-they emerged from the Continuum in the same order in which they'd entered, discovered themselves in a landscape resembling the open belly of a volcano, with clouds of sulphurous smoke drifting lazily into the upper reaches of the sky, and jets of flame spouting from the rocky ground between streams of bubbling lava: the Volcanic Plains.† (source)
- As fragments of mirror scattered and fell, Dodge squeezed his entire body back into the Continuum through a reflective sliver no larger than a jabberwock's toe-a feat the Glass Eyes hadn't mastered, for when they tried, they couldn't get their entire bodies into the Continuum, only those parts that had been reflected in the fragment.† (source)
- One to ten, 'ten' being one step shy of shredding the time-space continuum, 'one' being ten steps shy of dropping flat in my tracks.† (source)
- But if Poles by the thousands have sheltered Jews, hidden Jews, laid down their lives for Jews, they have also at times, in the agony of their conjugate discord, persecuted them with undeviating savagery; it was within this continuum of the Polish spirit that Professor Bieganski properly belonged, and it was there that Sophie had eventually to reinstate him for my benefit, in order to interpret the happenings at Auschwitz ….† (source)
- But at the same time, you, in the act of loving somebody, become real, cease to be a part of the continuum of the uncreated clay and get the breath of life in you and rise up.† (source)
- Undeterred by that cautionary bruise on their colleague's coccyx, four other reporters, representing the New York Times, the Frankfurt Four-Dimensional Continuum, The Fordian Science Monitor, and The Delta Mirror, called that afternoon at the lighthouse and met with receptions of progressively increasing violence.† (source)
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