Sample Sentences for
chronic
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    Her chronic lateness eventually cost her the job.
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    the younger children had perpetual colds and suffered from chronic ground-itch;  (source)
    chronic = continual
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    The result was chronic emptiness and boredom.  (source)
    chronic = long-lasting (of something bad)
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    The effects of swainsonine poisoning are chronic, the alkaloid rarely kills outright.†  (source)
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    Bob missed work about once a week, and he was chronically late.†  (source)
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    Across the room from the Acutes are the culls of the Combine's product, the Chronics.†  (source)
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    Nevertheless because of the chronicity of the illness and the basic deficiencies involved in personality structuring, a more complete recovery is not to be expected at this time.†  (source)
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    Hospital records: problems related to chronic alcoholism.†  (source)
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    Maybe it was a home with a chronically ill relative who was interested in regular examination by a young person who would listen endlessly to ailments and take precise notes.†  (source)
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    Chronics are in for good, the staff concedes.†  (source)
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    They were used now to stomach-aches and a sort of chronic diarrhoea.†  (source)
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    On the mantel above the constantly smoldering fire—wherein the logs were either chronically wet, or else the coals had been left unstirred for hours—there was a crèche with cheaply painted wooden figures.†  (source)
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    Ellis and Ruckly are the youngest Chronics.†  (source)
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