Sentence examples for Continent from inspiring English sources
"continent" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to any of the seven major landmasses on earth, or to describe any large land area. For example: "Africa is the world's second-largest continent."
adjective
Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one's bodily needs or passions, especially sex.
"Austerity, poverty and exclusion risk robbing an entire generation of healthy, productive lives across a continent that undervalues the benefits of universal healthcare.
Blatter is popular in Africa, Fifa's biggest voting bloc, for bringing its first World Cup in 2010 and using Fifa cash to fund hundreds of facilities for national associations across the continent.
The continent accounts for nearly half of all world coffee imports – more than 3m tonnes each year.
A team of US scientists looked at 18 years' worth of satellite data and found the floating ice shelves that skirt the continent are losing 310km3 of ice every year.
History books say that Columbus set foot on the American continent in 1492 as he was seeking a new maritime route to India.
Yet on the continent, her star has been rising.
But the weather will dramatically improve in the second half of the week and the mercury is predicted to rise to 28C (82F) in the south on Friday and Saturday as warm air from the continent drifts over Britain.
The struggle for these and other freedoms has been at the heart of liberation struggles throughout the African continent".
It states: "The home secretary asks me to confirm the information conveyed to you orally … that you will arrange for the interception of telephone communications between Fort Belvedere and Buckingham Palace on the one hand and the continent of Europe on the other".
"It is the storyline that concerns us, it's not the fact three countries have got Ebola and therefore the whole continent will be set back.
The Ebola crisis is expected to lop off as much as $6bn from the GDP output of the entire sub-Saharan region in 2015, despite the fact that the economic output of all three countries put together is equivalent to less than 1% of the GDP of the entire continent.
