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  • In his office he constantly altered the position of his coffee mug, his stapler, a jar of pens, he shuffled papers into neater piles.†   (source)
  • His job was to watch the jury constantly, but to do so without being obvious required a number of tricks.†   (source)
  • The old man looked at the fish constantly to make sure it was true.†   (source)
  • in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.   (source)
    constant = continuous
  • The bottle of whiskey — a second one — was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who "felt just as good on nothing at all."   (source)
    constant = continuous (repeated again and again)
  • ...and me and Silas and my Sid and Tom on the constant watch day AND night, as I was a-telling you, and not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them; and here at the last minute, lo and behold you, they slides right in under our noses and fools us, and...   (source)
    constant = continuous
  • He constantly glances over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • Speaking was difficult for him, because of the constant pain but also because his throat was burned.†   (source)
  • Yesterday the cemetery moved with villagers, like constant ants, including all the fishermen and shopkeepers, who had come to bury Scupper.†   (source)
  • Her mother was constantly sick and there was never any money to fix her.†   (source)
  • Esperanza could tell that Mama was uneasy with their constant presence.†   (source)
  • She may also be the friendliest person on the planet — she smiles constantly at everybody in school, even me.†   (source)
  • I have even stopped thinking about the constant rain, although I laugh when my friends here complain about the heat when it's 68 or 77 degrees Fahrenheit.†   (source)
  • Multicolored buses and lorries filled with passengers rolled through the narrow streets of Kabul, led by the constant shouts of the driver assistants who straddled the vehicles' rear bumpers and yelped directions to the driver in their thick Kabuli accent.†   (source)
  • I told her that the Sixers knew who she was and where she lived and that they had her under constant surveillance.†   (source)
  • He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache.†   (source)
  • As he dug, he kept a constant watchout for Zero, but never saw him.†   (source)
  • Unending squeals from the door and constant tugs on Connor's locked stall door.†   (source)
  • Off to one side was a room with rows of slot machines that were constantly clinking and ticking and flashing lights.†   (source)
  • Then he resumed a life of constant motion, riding his thumb north and west through Red Bluff, Weaverville, and Willow Creek.†   (source)
  • One engine, for reasons known only to the plane, was thirstier than the others, so the gauges had to be watched constantly.†   (source)
  • But I also know that they constantly come loose and more often than not, they're dangling down your back by afternoon.†   (source)
  • She was constantly checking on her hives, driving her old flatbed truck from one end of the county to the other.†   (source)
  • My Father felt awful that he had been away and fussed over both of us constantly.†   (source)
  • Now there was a constant odor, and Brian took another look at the pilot, found him rubbing the shoulder and down the arm now, the left arm, letting go more gas and wincing.†   (source)
  • Roy made small talk and tried to act casual while constantly checking behind him, to see if Dana was lurking.†   (source)
  • Knowing that the bus driver liked to entertain his passengers by sending us slipping along the road to the almost inaccessible forest banks washed to a smooth baldness by the constant rains, we continuously looked over our shoulders when we were between the two crossroads so that we could reach the bank before the bus was upon us.†   (source)
  • Tim had the tense, hungry look of an alley cat—that's what he's always reminded me of, an alley cat—and he was constantly restless.†   (source)
  • Running a kingdom is a constant strain: if he relaxes his guard, even for a moment, they'll be on him, whoever they are.†   (source)
  • The couple next door constantly fighting.†   (source)
  • We battled constantly, mostly because I was always messing up something of hers—some game, some toy.†   (source)
  • Dr. Karen Singh was in constant motion, like a badly drawn cartoon, but she had the single greatest resting poker face I'd ever seen.†   (source)
  • His constant attempts at communicating with Americans seemed at first noble and adventurous, then annoying.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to constantly boil enough, so we'd drank untreated water and contracted bouts of diarrhea.†   (source)
  • So gentle and rhythmic was the motion of Andrey's hands that one was at constant risk of falling under hypnosis.†   (source)
  • But even when the house was ostensibly peaceful, our lives were so charged that I was constantly on guard.†   (source)
  • I'm tired of having to walk through life with my head lowered, living in constant fear of the future.†   (source)
  • I had made bad choices, and there was nobody to blame but myself—something I had denied constantly throughout my suffering.†   (source)
  • He looked around constantly: Every movement in the grass was a lion stalking, every stillness a lion waiting to spring.†   (source)
  • The constantly broken-down elevators forced residents to climb claustrophobic, urine-scented stairways.†   (source)
  • The room is constantly moving, a new name and a new person choosing, a new knife and a new choice.†   (source)
  • Each guest is very particular about his or her diet, constantly complains about the slowness of the service, and never, ever tips.†   (source)
  • It influenced the way she talked to me, the way she constantly told me to "Keep close."†   (source)
  • His dark hair was neatly cut and his mustache covered a constant smile.†   (source)
  • His face was planed, and weathered from his time spent constantly outdoors.†   (source)
  • On top of that, we suffered the constant buzz of mosquitoes, blowflies, and hornets.†   (source)
  • Astrology was a symbolic constant all over the world.†   (source)
  • Keep the temperature constant and the humidity right, turn the egg several times a day, and in a few weeks you'll have yourself a little peeper.†   (source)
  • Willy's not trying to be mean—it's just that his arms and legs are in constant motion.†   (source)
  • He glanced constantly at the West Door, looking for any sign of Alby and Minho, Newt's concern having rubbed off on him.†   (source)
  • On its front end a half circle of lights glowed, giving feedback from the board's metal detector, which constantly searched ahead to see if there was enough iron in the ground to stay aloft.†   (source)
  • He kept constant watch behind him in the mirror.†   (source)
  • MOODY (Nods constantly as he testifies.)†   (source)
  • Luke watched the Sports Family house constantly after that.†   (source)
  • A constant stream of diners comes to their table to shake Werner's and Frederick's hands and ask Frederick's mother in low sycophantic voices about her husband's latest advancement.†   (source)
  • The children remembered Mr. Poe because he always had a cold and was constantly excusing himself from the table to have a fit of coughing in the next room.†   (source)
  • They were constantly scraping together enough money to pay for gas, to get me lunch money, to buy me a new pair of jeans and a few new shirts.†   (source)
  • The thing is, it doesn't take much reactant mass, so a little argon (and a nuclear reactor to power things) let us accelerate constantly the whole way there.†   (source)
  • When you add to these activities the constant comings and goings of the tenants who live in the upstairs apartments—they must all walk through Mr. Odom's entrance hall to reach the stairway—you have an idea of the chaotic atmosphere that prevails.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, I don't feel comfortable keeping anyone in the palace, facing this constant threat of danger, when I feel confident that we don't have any sort of future together.†   (source)
  • While he sat on his heels his father explained softly the meaning of zenshin, which the boy understood to mean a constant awareness of potential danger.†   (source)
  • He has seborrheic dermatitis, which means that his skin appears to be constantly in a state of rash.†   (source)
  • When he smiled, which was near-constantly, his mouth smiled, his eyes smiled, his shoulders even seemed to smile.†   (source)
  • By the time we get to sixth period, the portables' air conditioners have been struggling along for seven hours, with the doors constantly opening and closing.†   (source)
  • And X is what is called a constant.†   (source)
  • She jabbered constantly in my ear.†   (source)
  • She is constantly begging Dad to buy her a cat.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I thought, I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year.†   (source)
  • To constantly dwell on what might happen would totally suck the joy out of the sport.†   (source)
  • Sean Ackard was one of the cutest guys in their grade and the subject of Hanna's constant fantasies.†   (source)
  • Patrick did not have to explain to her-a woman who'd lived with regret as a constant companion-that convicting Peter Houghton was not enough.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the children imprisoned between their parents move constantly and restlessly in the pew; they are so crazy with self-pity, they seem ready to scream.†   (source)
  • Professorji's parents, both in their eighties and rather adventurous for their age, demanded constant care.†   (source)
  • Lou Anne's wearing her usual long sleeves in the summer heat and her constant smile.†   (source)
  • No other Champions were murdered, thankfully, but Celaena still found herself looking over her shoulder constantly, even though Chaol seemed to consider the two murders to be just unfortunate incidents.†   (source)
  • It's odd how just being around him today has somehow deepened the need I have to constantly want to be around him.†   (source)
  • I obsessed constantly without resolution.†   (source)
  • She was Illyrio's favorite, a fair-haired, blue-eyed wench of sixteen who chattered constantly as she worked.†   (source)
  • Devon was both scholarly and very athletic, so the playing fields were vast and, except at such a time of year, constantly in use.†   (source)
  • That you chased him constantly, that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • Now the Choke is so destroyed by decades of battle, the smoke of explosions is a constant fog and nothing can grow there.†   (source)
  • At any rate, that was how it looked to his father, and he sought to correct him by constant nagging and beating.†   (source)
  • Every bed was covered with a woven mat, our only bedding during the months of constant wet heat.†   (source)
  • She was the sort of person who liked to be constantly busy, Reynie realized.†   (source)
  • They put pepper in the napkin dispensers and unscrew the caps on the saltshakers.... They start food fights....They go sledding on our lunch trays....They make everybody laugh so the milk squirts out their noses....And they're constantly creating these awful comic books about us!†   (source)
  • The wind had settled to a constant moan, and the trees seemed to be shuddering less.†   (source)
  • By the look on Father's face, I could tell he was getting more and more tired of the constant "What The Boy has done now" routine.†   (source)
  • She always smelled of machine oil, and when she talked with Leo, she switched from Spanish to English constantly—using them like complementary tools.†   (source)
  • The roads in the cemetery meandered, turning this way and that, so I was constantly shifting back and forth from second to third to second.†   (source)
  • But the general view, constantly reiterated like a magic spell, was that they were safely asleep somewhere in the park.†   (source)
  • He has green eyes and one rolls around in his head so much he's constantly tapping his temple to keep it where it's supposed to be.†   (source)
  • With all this variety and the constant stream of messages from the food industry and the media, how can we ever make up our minds?†   (source)
  • Rameck, little boys who cause constant disruptions in class never grow up to be successful people.†   (source)
  • Children and their parents constantly gathered around it and examined the writing: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, Waisenkind — orphan.†   (source)
  • Place the paste in a pan, add the sugar, and heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture forms a marmalade.†   (source)
  • On the stairs leading to the gallery nearly twenty small boys were clustered, shoulder to shoulder, and the solid ranks undulated with the constant jerking of restless elbows straining under tight woolen jackets.†   (source)
  • In the three months since the Cultural Revolution had started, changes had been so constant that I often felt lost.†   (source)
  • She fought back the constant question, Where is Susie now?†   (source)
  • Cinder could see the constant movement of huge netscreens and flashing hovers as they darted between the buildings.†   (source)
  • She developed a stubborn allergic rash on her scalp from the constant chafing of her wimple.†   (source)
  • I'm constantly worrying about my stash and if I'll be able to find more.†   (source)
  • "Yes, that's a constant," said Trillian, "two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and nine to one against."†   (source)
  • Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it.†   (source)
  • Land-lust, which had been expressed by constant bickering over boundaries and deeds, could now be elevated to the arena of morality; one could cry witch against one's neighbor and feel perfectly justified in the bargain.†   (source)
  • Constantly doing the limbo.†   (source)
  • He glanced at his watch, synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time by constantly updated radio signals.†   (source)
  • Still, we knew how fragile our security was in the face of constantly changing German rules and policies.†   (source)
  • DRACO: I don't care what you did or who you saved, you are a constant curse on my family, Harry Potter.†   (source)
  • The constant chatter stopped.†   (source)
  • "Yeah," I said, looking away, "it's been hard" — which was for whatever reason the phrase I constantly fell back upon when people told me how sorry they were.†   (source)
  • Harsh words and shouts are constantly being flung at my head, though I'm absolutely not used to it.†   (source)
  • Ideas are in the air constantly.†   (source)
  • I constantly worried about gangsters on the trains.†   (source)
  • We must be constantly on guard against the Disease; the health of our nation, our people, our families, and our minds depends on constant vigilance.†   (source)
  • It's a horseshoe-shaped room with about a dozen beds and a cadre of nurses, who constantly bustle around, reading the computer printouts that churn out from the feet of our beds recording our vital signs.†   (source)
  • She is one with the constant dark now, just as the air was her home, familiar to her, safe, before the storm that afternoon.†   (source)
  • Always helping others, constantly bringing in animals and keeping them as pets.†   (source)
  • That summer we arrived, we were constantly seeing veterans packing their bags and rucksacks and going off for two or three days at a time with what seemed to us scary nonchalance.†   (source)
  • I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it.†   (source)
  • The Varden were a rebel group that constantly raided and attacked the Empire.†   (source)
  • And the whole time there was that constant rain.†   (source)
  • Adam Farmer was nothing—the void yawned ahead of him and behind him, with no constant to guide himself by.†   (source)
  • With his free hand, he put constant pressure on the wound to slow the bleeding.†   (source)
  • They darted from tree to tree, from bush to bush, constantly looking behind them.†   (source)
  • I remember the constant fighting.†   (source)
  • Jesse and Sarah, willing to do anything, made themselves constantly available to the family and friends who came to help.†   (source)
  • He constantly wiped my forehead with a soaked cloth.†   (source)
  • He was in constant pain, he had fever—once I had to call Nigel to hold him while I tied him down to keep him from hurting himself.†   (source)
  • The only consistent elements of decor at Cicero's over the decades were the low ceilings, thick smoke, and constant background babble which offered a sense of privacy in the midst of bustle.†   (source)
  • Without her voice, the slight static hum that constantly played beneath her words sounds louder.†   (source)
  • The Baby Thing, as I called it, had become a constant in Jenny's life and was getting bigger by the day.†   (source)
  • And for a few moments I had relief from the great blanketing grief that was constantly crushing me.†   (source)
  • Go along at a constant pace when you can, taking little steps to keep the bottom of your kimono fluttering.†   (source)
  • So there must be another Henryk, one I would understand if I only knew him, instead of being constantly at odds with him.†   (source)
  • We courted decorously, not like Dede and Jaimito, two little puppies you constantly have to watch over so they don't get into trouble—Mama has been telling me the stories.†   (source)
  • In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds.†   (source)
  • He constantly attempts to put the tiniest scraps of paper and lint and whatever else he finds on the floor into his mouth.†   (source)
  • I was constantly fighting.†   (source)
  • I was constantly helping my students develop their own feedback loops.†   (source)
  • As you know, that's Shakespeare's sonnet 73, your constant bedside reading.†   (source)
  • Last week's columns are nonexistent, zapped by a constant, white-hot beam of news and information that blurs history.†   (source)
  • Two hours into the drive, he was crying constantly, stopping about every thirty minutes to throw up again.†   (source)
  • Your Sister in Sorrow, Nettie Just when I think I've learned to live with the heat, the constant dampness, even steaminess of my clothes, the swampiness under my arms and between my legs, my Mend comes.†   (source)
  • Anywhere else, a Radchaai who received one would treasure it, and wear it nearly constantly, a badge of having served in the temple with the Lord of the Radch herself.†   (source)
  • Aunt Agnes was eighty-four, and although she drove the twins to distraction with her constant fussing, they were very fond of her.†   (source)
  • As if we were all tied together in this whirlwind of constant motion, set to the rhythm of the melody from the music room.†   (source)
  • He excelled, however, at drawing and sketched constantly.†   (source)
  • His obvious affection for the animals was what touched us: as they went along he constantly muttered and fussed at them.†   (source)
  • We were constantly under scrutiny; the instructors showed us recordings of our performance on video.†   (source)
  • I was blinded from the constant looking back: Lot's wife.†   (source)
  • To be constantly alert to any and every contingency.†   (source)
  • With the passage of time, I became increasingly aware of how all of the adults around me were living with constant fear and apprehension.†   (source)
  • They're constantly tested.†   (source)
  • If atoms could eternally be broken down into ever smaller parts, nature would begin to dissolve like constantly diluted soup.†   (source)
  • Gey took any cells he could get his hands on—he called himself "the world's most famous vulture, feeding on human specimens almost constantly."†   (source)
  • My father was dead then, and I was head of the family and I had to defend him constantly from my mother and sister.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he just liked to be constantly in motion.†   (source)
  • After December 3rd we began to get used to the sight of soldiers constantly around town.†   (source)
  • He rehearsed this constantly.†   (source)
  • Bearing still constant on all three contacts, sir.†   (source)
  • Whatever zest and pep the other girls had that made them cartwheel, high kick, and smile constantly was missing in me, like a genetic or chemical malfunction.†   (source)
  • I screamed constantly day and night.†   (source)
  • There is a constant undulation of the ground that makes the shattered glass flash and twinkle; this is caused by vast, sparse migrations of rats.†   (source)
  • It's constant pain.†   (source)
  • When she goes to work on a night shift, she constantly reminds me to lock the doors and windows, and sometimes she calls on the phone if she gets a chance and tells me again.†   (source)
  • Because of the constant agitation that reigned in the big house on the corner, no one, except Nana, noticed that Blanca was becoming a woman.†   (source)
  • Academically, he was constantly in the gifted and advanced classes.†   (source)
  • The refugees were a constant problem, in Nelson's eyes.†   (source)
  • Unable to control her breathing because of the constant convulsions, Denise had undergone a tracheotomy.†   (source)
  • I do not live my life constantly wishing that I could change the past.†   (source)
  • Throughout my life, my mother has been the constant.†   (source)
  • Seward's doctors warned the family to keep him under constant watch.†   (source)
  • Another constant terror was the war.†   (source)
  • I read everything, I wrote constantly, and I had boyfriends by the barrelful "Why don't you do the assigned reading?" they'd ask.†   (source)
  • Even from Blomkvist's relatively distant observation post he could tell that it was a good old AK4, the rifle that had been his constant companion for the year of his military service.†   (source)
  • I guess if you're going to be born with an illness that requires constant care, then it's good to have your mom as your doctor.†   (source)
  • We were in constant motion, always playing whatever game was in season or, if for some reason one of those didn't interest us, just the ones that we made up ourselves.†   (source)
  • I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.†   (source)
  • We both know how constant a watch we must keep to prevent traitors from infiltrating our forces ....but I have two new reports.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't say this to her, but she can get pretty full of herself, being this big writer and all; constantly getting recognized because her picture appears next to her column in the paper.†   (source)
  • This close to the ocean the weather changed constantly, and a rainstorm could quickly escalate into a flash flood.†   (source)
  • No doubt the old lady employs people who work on it constantly, a queen's army of worker bees.†   (source)
  • And now, suddenly, they were here in this bleak territory of the heart, the place to which, lately, they both seemed constantly drawn.†   (source)
  • Don't worry at the way they've been mistreated, don't worry about their punishments, don't worry about the guns constantly trained on their backs.†   (source)
  • "The flow is constant," Alfonse said.†   (source)
  • One is never too young to fight for our constitutional rights, which are under constant assault from rightwing forces.†   (source)
  • The walls of the stall were thickly padded but even so they seemed to shake under the constant thumping of his hooves.†   (source)
  • They were tired of constantly looking for new carhops and short-order cooks — who were in great demand — as the old ones left for higher-paying jobs elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Arguments were nearly constant whenever Kelley's mother returned, and Kelley was no longer relaxed in her own home.†   (source)
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