All 16 Uses
continuous
in
The Bourne Supremacy
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- During Panov's sessions in Virginia, David had read and re-read hundreds of travel folders and illustrated brochures describing all the places the mythical Jason Bourne was known to have been; it was a continuous, often painful exercise in self-probing.†
Chpt 8
- He had walked through the crowded pedestrian lanes to the wild confusion that was the Star Ferry, the island's continuous link to Kowloon.†
Chpt 8 *
- Everywhere the multitude of small balconies attested to the demands of cleanliness, as no one ever appeared on them except to hang continuous lines of laundry.†
Chpt 9
- Outside in the open market that fills the garbage-strewn street where no traffic is permitted, soiled tables piled high with rejected and/or stolen merchandise are sandwiched between grimy stalls where pockets of vapour rise from huge vats of boiling oil in which questionable pieces of meat, fowl, and snake are continuously plunged, then ladled out and placed on newspapers for immediate sale.†
Chpt 10
- They were seated, literally concealed by the stream of waiters rushing in and out of the swinging doors, as well as by the continuous bustle taking place at the scores of tables throughout the crowded restaurant.†
Chpt 14
- He continuously wiped the water from his face as he moved about peering at everyone and everything.†
Chpt 19
- The compound is enclosed by a high wall of grey stone, the entrances to the complex guarded by seasoned army veterans, the dense woods within continuously patrolled by attack dogs.†
Chpt 19
- The crew of two bailed out the water that continuously swept back over the gunwales as the grizzled ChinesePortuguese captain, squinting through the cabin's large windows, inched his way forward towards the black outlines of the island.†
Chpt 21
- She was the Chinese image of the uppermiddleclass, serious, no-nonsense tourist —probably a widow — who peremptorily issued instructions, counted her money, and never went anywhere without a guidebook which she continuously checked off against each site on her well-organized itinerary.†
Chpt 22
- One rushed ahead to the lobby liquor store as the others detained him by the elevator, chattering continuously through the interpreter.†
Chpt 24
- He first found what felt like a thick wad of folded toilet tissue, not at all uncommon in China where such paper was continuously in short supply.†
Chpt 26
- Only one kept refusing, continuously trying to rise in disobedience and disrespect, and continuously beaten down by the guard nearest him.†
Chpt 26
- Only one kept refusing, continuously trying to rise in disobedience and disrespect, and continuously beaten down by the guard nearest him.†
Chpt 26
- The questions were superfluous; the former commando was continuously making his own assessment of his captor's physical and mental condition.†
Chpt 29
- The diplomat's decision to speak to the CIA man in the busy, white-walled hallway was predicated on the fact that it was busy — nurses and ancillaries, doctors and specialists, roamed the halls conferring and answering phones that seemed to ring continuously.†
Chpt 31
- He required RH-negative blood which was continuously in short supply.†
Chpt 35
Definitions:
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(1)
(continuous) continuing in time or space without interruption or irregularity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)