All 13 Uses of
constant
in
Catch-22
- 'Why me?' was his constant lament, and the question was a good one.†
Chpt 4 *
- He detested the very sight of his son-in-law, who was his aide and therefore in constant attendance upon him.†
Chpt 4
- He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope.†
Chpt 8
- With damp dish towels they wiped the dust several times a day from the slim black rubber tubes leading in and out of him to the two large stoppered jars, one of them, hanging on a post beside his bed, dripping fluid into his arm constantly through a slit in the bandages while the other, almost out of sight on the floor, drained the fluid away through the zinc pipe rising from his groin.†
Chpt 17
- He was on the alert constantly for every signal, shrewdly sensitive to relationships and situations that did not exist.†
Chpt 19
- He kept the chaplain in a constant state of terror with his curt, derisive tongue and his knowing, cynical eyes that the chaplain was never brave enough to meet for more than an accidental second.†
Chpt 20
- Major — de Coverley was an ominous, incomprehensible presence who kept him constantly on edge and of whom even Colonel Korn tended to be wary.†
Chpt 21
- 'War is hell,' he declared frequently, drunk or sober, and he really meant it, although that did not prevent him from making a good living out of it or from taking his son-in-law into the business with him, even though the two bickered constantly.†
Chpt 21
- …flights of creaking wooden stairs and guided them through a doorway into their own wonderful and resplendent tenement apartment, which burgeoned miraculously with an infinite and proliferating flow of supple young naked girls and contained the evil and debauched ugly old man who irritated Nately constantly with his caustic laughter and the clucking, proper old woman in the ash-gray woolen sweater who disapproved of everything immoral that occurred there and tried her best to tidy up.†
Chpt 23
- He threw this arms about the trunk in a generous and awkward embrace and began shinnying down, the sides of his leather-soled shoes slipping constantly so that it seemed many times he would fall and injure himself.†
Chpt 24
- Before meeting Yossarian, there was no one in the group with whom he felt at ease, and he was hardly at ease with Yossarian, whose frequent rash and insubordinate outbursts kept him almost constantly on edge and in an ambiguous state of enjoyable trepidation.†
Chpt 25
- But Dunbar had nausea and dizziness with his constant headache and was not inclined to co-operate with Major Sanderson.†
Chpt 27
- He kept his hand on his gun butt constantly and smiled at no one but Hungry Joe.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(constant) unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly