Sentence examples for onto a continental from inspiring English sources

Planted close to houses to deter witches from entering homes according to folklore, the box plant with its small leaves and dense growth has been a feature of the formal English garden since the Tudors caught onto a Continental fashion for shaping plants into "knot" gardens of intertwined shrubs.

The destruction was on a continental scale".

Submarine canyons originate either within continental slopes or on a continental shelf.

Ponzi finance on a continental scale.

This is "let them eat cake" on a continental scale.

SEDFLUX combines individual process-response models into one fully interactive model, delivering a multi-sized sediment load onto and across a continental margin, including sediment redistribution by (1) river mouth dynamics, (2) buoyant surface plumes, (3) hyperpycnal flows, (4) ocean storms, (5) slope instabilities, (6) turbidity currents, and (7) debris flows.

The climate is of a continental type.

gambiae remains fragmentary at a continental scale.

Hold your racquet with a continental grip.

A continental climate.

It's still got a continental feel.