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Definition
unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly
- The walls of the stall were thickly padded but even so they seemed to shake under the constant thumping of his hooves.Three (25% in)
- The rate had stayed a constant seventy for many days.Three (81% in)
- Lester, a dapper little man with a toothbrush moustache, had the radio on behind the counter and for once Robert felt grateful for the constant, inane babble of traffic news and jingles.Eleven (23% in)
- Lower down, meandering a meadow so flat that its loops linked back upon themselves, it formed a maze of still, dark pools and grassy islands whose geography was constantly arranged and rearranged by beavers.Fourteen (9% in)
- Separated from their mothers, who kept up a constant calling, the calves were moved through a series of connecting pens until they found themselves in a narrow chute from which there was no return.Seventeen (23% in)
- The sky above him rushed with small white clouds so that the light shifted constantly from gloom to glare.Eighteen (37% in)
- Some bounced back to dance in shimmering reflection on the ceiling, while the rest slanted through to the bottom of the pool where it formed undulating patterns, like a colony of pale blue snakes that lived and died and were constantly reborn.Nineteen (48% in)
- Her prosthetic leg was now so tight it gave her constant pain.Twenty-eight (89% in)
- The rush of water drowned the constant low rumble of thunder outside.Twenty-nine (4% in)
- He nagged away at it constantly, readjusting it piece by piece with a long-handled fork.Thirty (60% in)
- The girl, now nearly fifteen, was a constantly revealing miracle.Thirty-six (53% in)
There are no more uses of "constant" in The Horse Whisperer.
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