Sample Sentences for
incessant
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  • It was brutal: the incessant mechanized haranguing of intensive care.  (source)
    incessant = continuous (without pause)
  • The flames cut the cool damp morning, crackled and did much to bring his spirits up, not to mention chasing away the incessant mosquitoes.  (source)
    incessant = continuously annoying
  • Allie woke early the next morning, forced by the incessant chirping of starlings,  (source)
    incessant = continuous (and often annoying)
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  • For nearly a year, he had been working incessantly, thinking only of putting aside enough money so that he could return to Spain with pride.  (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • My driver ... drove nonchalantly and recklessly, averting collisions by the thinnest of margins, all without so much as a pause in the incessant stream of words spewing from his mouth:  (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done."  (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • An incessant buzzing of helicopters filled the twilight.  (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • He had patches of honey on his shirt, which were attracting a horde of flies and causing him to swat incessantly.  (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • according to Japanese custom, when a person falls sick and goes to a hospital, one or more members of his family go and live there with him, to cook for him, bathe, massage, and read to him, and to offer incessant familial sympathy, without which a Japanese patient would be miserable indeed.  (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • Silently, Granger arose, felt his arms, and legs, swearing, swearing incessantly under his breath, tears dripping from his face.  (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • she looked sorrowful and weary--weary of incessant strife.  (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • He knew she read incessantly--Shakespeare, Henry James, Dickens, Thomas Hardy--but he did not think this could fill her days.  (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • ages of incessant labour by immortal creatures  (source)
    incessant = continuous
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