Sentence examples for continental i from inspiring English sources

Mrs Gibbs was very puzzled and asked: 'How can you not understand him - he's a continental?' I think she thought we all spoke the same language".

For now, I board the plane and return home - to search for a nice outdoor cafe that serves espresso and sweet cakes, where I can sit and relax, and turn on my tape of the world's most ghastly accordion music, and watch the pigeons chuttle about and the girls wheel by, and show all my American friends how truly continental I have now become.

The climate of the landlocked Black Sea can be characterized generally as continental (i.e., subject to pronounced seasonal temperature variations), although climatic conditions in some parts of the basin are controlled to a great extent by the shoreline relief.

Seasonal courses of air temperature and precipitation at Gollin (data not shown) are highly similar to Kratzeburg, though the climate is slightly more continental (i.e. higher temperature and lower precipitation amounts).

We have collected marker data to evaluate the continental (i.e., European, Asian, Native American, and African) and within-African ancestry.

The forms included the following headings: the date and time of publication, the media source and its location focus, which included regional (i.e. Delhi), national (i.e. India), or continental (i.e. Indo-Asia) coverage in some cases.

Among the top-10 routes (as shown in Table 1) in terms of twenty foot equivalent unit (TEU) carrying capacity, only one is inter-continental (i.e., China-United States).

Into Day 2 of a planned six-day road trip through this region, one of the wildest and most remote in the continental United States, I had not had what I considered a decent meal since touching down at the little airport in St .George, Utah, and picking up my rental car.

"Maybe it's another thing in the US, but in continental law I can't do it, and I can't do it in total even by the Fifa code of ethics.

The service unavailable splash screen reveals that Gogo won't work below 10,000 feet and is only available within the continental U.S. I will individually test all my devices and then simultaneously to see what sort of bandwidth I'm getting.

The apogee of my continental naughtiness: I was lured into smoking several cigarettes.