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- Sam was older and needed constant beating, but he found a way out of it.†
Chpt 1.4
- They were constantly bailing each other out of jail, not for anything bad, merely for refusing to march in step with the twentieth century.†
Chpt 1.5 *constantly = in a manner that is unchanging, continuous, or happens repeatedly
- It is true that there is something about the enormity of this city that forces you to be reflective, as if you have to constantly peek inside yourself to make sure your character has not somehow slipped away from you in the onrush of strangers.†
Chpt 2.16
- The Miami Herald reporters were on constant watch, and I told Rachel to be careful.†
Chpt 2.24
- Daytime existence was a constant merry-go-round of begging, napping and begging some more, for a dollar, a dime, a little attention.†
Chpt 2.25
- The meanness of the place does not jab at you, now and then, it hammers, constant.†
Chpt 2.26
- The tap-tap-tap of his hammer has been constant, seven days a week, well into the night.†
Chpt 2.26
- By the late 1980s, the one constant in his life was jail.†
Chpt 2.32
- My job was to write about those human rights abuses, and day after day after day I listened to the stories of frightened people, interviewing them behind the locked gates of safe houses and in dark rooms in the endless slums and, once, lying in the floorboard of my four-wheel-drive as I circled and circled the city, my eyes darting constantly to the rearview mirror.†
Chpt 2.33constantly = in a manner that is unchanging, continuous, or happens repeatedly
Definitions:
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(1)
(constant) unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)