CONTINUATION in a Sentence

Learn CONTINUATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for CONTINUATION, such as:
1. Things cannot continue as they are.
2. where the twilight is never of long continuation.
3. The first child is the continuation of the last doll.
4. We cannot allow such behaviour to continue unchecked.
5. A continuation of the state of England under Queen Anne.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CONTINUATION
continuation
 n.  a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
 n.  the act of continuing an activity without interruption
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful history they will not be met with any more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
2  The first child is the continuation of the last doll.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
3  She awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the effect of being a continuation of her dream.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
4  This academy is not an entire single building, but a continuation of several houses on both sides of a street, which growing waste, was purchased and applied to that use.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
5  A continuation of the state of England under Queen Anne.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VI.
6  His short-cropped hair might have been a mere continuation of the sandy freckles on his forehead and face.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
7  The heath down there was now a vast abyss, and no longer a continuation of what they stood on; for their eyes, adapted to the blaze, could see nothing of the deeps beyond its influence.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
8  To Marianne, indeed, the meeting between Edward and her sister was but a continuation of that unaccountable coldness which she had often observed at Norland in their mutual behaviour.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
9  where the twilight is never of long continuation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
10  Again the avenger had been foiled, and again his concentrated hatred urged him to continue the pursuit.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
11  He would, probably, for a time at least, continue to perform his duties.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
12  For the stage was empty; the emotion must be continued; the only thing to continue the emotion was the song; and the words were inaudible.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
13  Things cannot continue as they are.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
14  To continue in fistic phraseology, he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
15  Should her disposition be really bad," said Sir Thomas, "we must not, for our own children's sake, continue her in the family; but there is no reason to expect so great an evil.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The continuation of the meeting was delayed until the next day.
2  War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
3  War is famously'the continuation of policy by other means '.
4  The present economic policy is a continuation of the earlier one.
5  His research could be seen as a natural continuation of the work done by Professor Lang.
6  For Martin, it was a continuation from a first half in which he scored 18 points.
7  Trying to continue with a demanding career and manage a child or two is an impossible juggling act.
8  The team will continue its quest for Olympic gold this afternoon.
9  The most widely held view is the market will continue to power ahead.
10  We cannot allow such behaviour to continue unchecked.
11  Or a person continue to lonely down, don't need anyone Li frets.
12  The essence of his argument was that education should continue throughout life.
13  It is reasonable to assume the economy will continue to improve.
14  I think we can safely assume that this situation will continue.
15  If we continue to destroy the countryside many more animals will become extinct.