CONTINUITY in a Sentence

Learn CONTINUITY 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 CONTINUITY, such as:
1. Things cannot continue as they are.
2. The novel fails to achieve narrative continuity.
3. And the continuity is not Organic, but mechanical.
4. We cannot allow such behaviour to continue unchecked.
5. You've got to have some sort of continuity in your life.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CONTINUITY
continuity
 n.  a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot
 n.  uninterrupted connection or union
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And the continuity is not Organic, but mechanical.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
2  There was a gap in the continuity of consciousness, almost American: but industrial really.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  You've got to have some sort of continuity in your life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  A stubborn woman an er own self-will: ay, they make a fast continuity, they do.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  Vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI
6  Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I
7  She could get along without the Bourbons; she had done without them for two and twenty years; there had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
8  This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil and terrible continuity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST
9  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
10  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
11  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
12  Things cannot continue as they are.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
13  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
14  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
15  From all that I hear and guess, Baron Wildenheim's attentions to Julia continue, but I do not know that he has any serious encouragement.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The novel fails to achieve narrative continuity.
2  An historical awareness also imparts a sense of continuity.
3  The author deliberately breaks the narrative continuity in order to confound the reader's expectations.
4  Walt and I referred to a video cassette of the original footage to check continuity and lighting.
5  War is the continuity of policies during peace time, and vice versa.
6  She was fiercely proud of family traditions and continuity.
7  I think you need to hire someone to maintain continuity on your blog if you intend it to have any longevity.
8  Trying to continue with a demanding career and manage a child or two is an impossible juggling act.
9  The team will continue its quest for Olympic gold this afternoon.
10  The most widely held view is the market will continue to power ahead.
11  We cannot allow such behaviour to continue unchecked.
12  Or a person continue to lonely down, don't need anyone Li frets.
13  The essence of his argument was that education should continue throughout life.
14  It is reasonable to assume the economy will continue to improve.
15  I think we can safely assume that this situation will continue.