Sentence examples for talking continuously from inspiring English sources

"talking continuously" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe someone speaking without pause or interruption. Example: The professor stood at the front of the lecture hall, talking continuously for two hours about the history of ancient civilizations.

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"Nobody could speak because he was talking continuously.

When I first meet him at Volt Studios not far from Dublin Port, he hobbles in on crutches, talking continuously, reeling off a list of (possibly imaginary) side projects from Fifty Years Of Hair to the Toilets.

I laughed inordinately at the idea that a second-rate supervillain can always be tempted into the classic mistake of "monologuing": talking continuously about the inner sense of hurt and resentment which propelled him into villain-hood, and so giving the hero a chance to catch his breath and counter-attack.

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She talks continuously.

When they played, they talked continuously.

He talks continuously of the charms of a girl he met the night before.

Thereafter Callil tells us, "he had only one subject: Jews, about whom he talked continuously, out loud, to his dying day".

Unlike in Washington, though, where senators can use procedural devices to delay proceedings without actually speaking on the floor, Texas filibusters require senators to remain on their feet at all times, and to talk continuously.

Even there, in the salons of Kenneth Rexroth and Robert Duncan, Ginsberg was seen less as a poet than a "character", one who could "talk continuously seventy hours from park to pad, bar to Bellevue" (again from Howl).

Re "In Battle Over Texas Abortion Bill, Senator's Stand Catches the Limelight" (news article, June 27): While I admire the stamina and determination of State Senator Wendy Davis, isn't it a little ridiculous that the fate of a piece of legislation could depend on the ability of a single legislator to stand without support and to talk continuously for hours and hours without even a bathroom break?

On the other hand, while this is a field that likes to talk continuously about learning, it is striking how little of substance is said on the topic.

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