All 7 Uses
continuous
in
Tamar, by Mal Peet
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- By the time I was fourteen or so, her two languages were leaking into one another continuously.†
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- And from the ditch there had come a continuous scrabbling and splashing and murmuring; a march of vast rats that must surely have been audible from any distance.†
- Nothing happened at first, and then he heard a whispering that paused and resumed and then became a continuous rhythmic noise.†
- It was not surprising that after five weeks of almost continuous rain the distributor and the HT leads were wet.†
- On other nights, he had emerged from the barn and heard the distant drone of aircraft and the continuous muffled thud of faraway explosions.†
- A man who was making a low continuous moaning had to be pulled away from the dead boy, but there was little of the crying and screaming that Dart had steeled himself for.†
- Then, although there was no longer any returning fire, they reloaded and fired continuously as they walked towards it, because none of them wanted to be the first to stop.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(continuous) continuing in time or space without interruption or irregularity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)