All 8 Uses
incessant
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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- The telegraph poles bob up incessantly; one is felled, another rises.†
*incessantly = continuously
- They pass the window of this eating-shop incessantly.†
- Mobile, incessant, they flicker over me.†
incessant = continuous (and often annoying)
- and shuffling closer on our perch in this restaurant where everybody's interests are at variance, and the incessant passage of traffic chafes us with distractions, and the door opening perpetually its glass cage solicits us with myriad temptations and offers insults and wounds to our confidence—sitting together here we love each other and believe in our own endurance.'†
- We are not slaves bound to suffer incessantly unrecorded petty blows on our bent backs.†
incessantly = continuously
- Let them lay to rest the incessant activity of the mind's eye, the bandaged head, the men with ropes, so that I may find something unvisual beneath.†
incessant = continuous (and often annoying)
- There we talked; sat talking; sauntered down that avenue, the avenue which runs under the trees, under the thick-leaved murmuring trees, the trees that are hung with fruit, which we have trodden so often together, so that now the turf is bare round some of those trees, round certain plays and poems, certain favourites of ours—the turf is trodden bare by our incessant unmethodical pacing.†
- Yes, this is the eternal renewal, the incessant rise and fall and fall and rise again.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(incessant) continuous -- often in an annoying way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)