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Example sentences for "continue their"

  • By their gestures they were evidently endeavouring to persuade the crew to continue their endeavours to escape or to yield at once.

  • So these very charming ladies would like to continue their voyage, and you pledged your word that I would not detain them?

  • On the 5th of September an expedition under De Poutrincourt, together with Champlain as geographer, departed to continue their explorations.

  • The priests were urged to continue their labors in connection with the conversion of the Indians, whom they were advised to train and civilize while they converted.

  • The next morning they rose before the dawn of day and prepared anxiously to continue their search.

  • Had the seminary priests been left free to continue their work, unimpeded by foreign or English political plots on the Continent, it is difficult to say what might have been the result.

  • They intended to sail down that stream to its mouth, erect a fort, and build vessels to enable them to continue their discoveries by sea.

  • It was now late in the season and they were convinced it would be suicidal to continue their journey on foot, as still many hundred miles lay before them to the Missouri River.

  • The lofty mountains having now dwindled to mere hills, they landed and prepared to continue their journey on foot.

  • The Kulturkampf banished them from their native land and they had to continue their labors in exile.

  • The low-water work continued two hours and a half, when those employed at the Beacon were left as usual to continue their operations.

  • Notwithstanding the boisterous state of the weather, the artificers were enabled to continue their visits to the Rock, and landed this morning at 5.

  • They had now no choice, if they wished to continue their journey, but to make off with the canoes which had been lent them at Patashie.

  • I think there cannot be a doubt but they will be obliged to smuggle; if they mean to continue their business, their capital will be insufficient for the purposes of commerce and the payment of high duties.

  • Those States not being able to continue their encouragement, expect that we will attend to their policy, and protect their citizens in the property they were led to acquire under the State regulations.

  • Before the negotiation took place, we had suffered considerably by British spoliations, and that House thought of various means to make it the interest of that power not to continue their depredations.

  • Thus at the peace, this Island found itself with little or no trade; little or no disposable revenue, no attraction for visitors, no inducement for the affluent to continue their abode, and no prospect of employment for the poor.

  • Thus at the peace, this Island found itself with little or no trade; little or no disposable revenue; no attraction for visitors, no inducement for the affluent to continue their abode, and no prospect of employment for the poor.

  • Some were permitted to continue their route; others were dispatched to York Factory, on the Bay.

  • A canoe was given Sutherland and the others, together with a scanty supply of pemmican, and they were allowed to continue their journey to the fort.

  • The position of those in authority was so disagreeable that it was with great difficulty that Governor Dallas persuaded the magistrates to continue their duties.

  • The Crusaders could pursue no wiser plan than to continue their march, and prosecute the enterprise they had begun, leaving it to Providence to provide for their wants, and protect them from thirst and famine.

  • The emir of Ramala, informed by some fugitives, came happily to their rescue, delivered them from the death with which they were threatened, and permitted them to continue their journey.

  • When the pilgrims were all united to continue their march to Palestine, they must doubtless have been struck with terror as they contemplated the losses they had experienced.

  • The action of Congress also made them bold in their desire to continue their persecutions of the Saints.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "continue their" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blind man; boil till; continue the; continue their; continued fever; continued selection; continued she; continued the; continued till; continued until; cool summers; export crops; general council; general good; good results; great share; inviting them; men are; powerful fleet; shorter time; should choose; small white; sorte que; tiger among; various states; year agone