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Example sentences for "continue"

Lexicographically close words:
continuation; continuations; continuator; continuators; continuaunce; continued; continuellement; continuer; continues; continueth
  1. And I pray God heartily in his pleasure to continue the same: for it is to me very great comfort that he so be, so help me Jesu.

  2. When the French seized the ports they promised to continue the subsidy, because they are collecting the customs dues and we have no other revenue worth mentioning.

  3. If they open the thing before the train leaves, Grim says the lot of us are to bolt back across the border, send Mabel home to her husband, and continue the journey by camel.

  4. The schools will be reopened July 6, and continue to August 17, the term being six weeks long; applications to be made by June 1.

  5. He is to continue to pay premiums as long as he lives, if he does not anticipate them by a single payment, or by several payments.

  6. Cash in bank would continue to represent money which had been lost by a bank failure.

  7. The joint-stock banks which possessed issues were also allowed to continue these, but when two joint-stock banks amalgamated, the continuing bank only retained its issue.

  8. Thus tanda may become tandaka in the sense of "to continue loving.

  9. Williams did not long continue to find satisfaction in the step he had taken.

  10. Its chief work was to continue the agitation in which for some years the body had been successfully engaged in favour of religious equality and the entire separation of church and state.

  11. You who pray to the God of the missionaries, continue to do so, and in your praying see you make no mistakes.

  12. The council decided to continue preparations for war, so that, if terms of peace cannot be arranged, Turkey will be ready for any emergency.

  13. Settlers continue to bring their families into the city for protection.

  14. Defend, O Lord, this thy Child with thy heavenly grace; that I may continue thine for ever; and daily increase in thy Holy Spirit more and more, until I come unto thy everlasting kingdom.

  15. In December, 1601, the ban of disgrace was taken from the Globe Theatre, and Burbage and William were permitted to continue their dramatic exhibitions.

  16. I must therefore, I fear, continue to edit a little.

  17. About 1806, however, his aversion to the political principles which dominated the Edinburgh Review became so strong that he refused to continue as a contributor, and only once, years later, did he again write an article for that periodical.

  18. The male children remained in the harem until the age of puberty, when they left it in order to continue their education as princes and soldiers under the guidance of their father.

  19. For the great majority of power transmissions, however, it seems probable that wooden poles or structures will long continue to be much the cheaper and more practicable form of support.

  20. In this way the many-gap arrester destroys the many small arcs started by lightning discharges that would continue and short-circuit the line if they were combined into a single long arc.

  21. After a time, however, when the joints between the blocks were no longer tight because of shrinkage, the expanding gas of the fuse would reach the terminals and an arc would continue after the fuse had blown.

  22. Some of these causes are accidental and temporary; while others are permanent, and, aided by a just course of administration, may continue to operate beneficially upon the public expenditures.

  23. You will perceive from the report of the Secretary of the Treasury that the financial means of the country continue to keep pace with its improvement in all other respects.

  24. As the arrangement referred to, however, did not embrace the islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico, discriminating duties to the prejudice of American shipping continue to be levied there.

  25. A sincere desire to continue so and a fixed determination to give no just cause of offense to other nations furnish, unfortunately, no certain grounds of expectation that this relation will be uninterrupted.

  26. This gives me hopes that the endeavors I shall continue to make without ceasing until the question is decided may be successful.

  27. In the domestic policy of this Government there are two objects which especially deserve the attention of the people and their representatives, and which have been and will continue to be the subjects of my increasing solicitude.

  28. Next morning they took a farewell view of the beautiful scene and then climbed into their automobile to continue their journey.

  29. Yet she thinks she will continue her journey by the next train, as she has paid for her ticket and can't afford to waste the money.

  30. Will they continue this Grand Opera chorus all night?

  31. Some men continue well on in middle life to play tennis, hand-ball, and certain other games, O fortunati nimium, that make the best kind of diversion.

  32. Many practitioners, however, continue to accept this universal explanation which makes diagnosis so easy and which is supposed to be so suggestive for treatment.

  33. There is no doubt that without the sex element the race would not continue under the present dispensation.

  34. Most of them will laugh at it, but still they continue the practice in spite of the bother it may occasion them.

  35. These are, of course, definitely acquired conditions, some of them temporary and some persistent, that will continue to give trouble so long as the patient continues to produce irritation of them.

  36. It would have been madness to continue the kind of studious life that I had been leading.

  37. Varicosities have a definite tendency to develop in those who are occupied in standing occupations, waiters, footmen, clerks, and the like, and often they have to continue at these occupations in spite of the varicose condition.

  38. Perhaps the most striking testimony to the power of the human mind to continue work without requiring the refreshment of sleep, except for very short periods, is that of Humboldt, the great traveller, scientist writer and diplomat.

  39. Of course, there are many surgeons who will continue to hold, as they seem to now, that nature was quite at fault in the production of this organ and that it should be removed in nearly every human being.

  40. A bone broken when the patient was young may twenty or thirty years later continue to give warnings of the approach of change in the weather and be a source of annoyance.

  41. And his lordship's lawyers continue my allowance.

  42. Her change of name had hitherto protected her from discovery by the Captain, and would in all probability continue to protect her in the future.

  43. But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.

  44. Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

  45. While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

  46. Germany sold arms to the Boers and to England during the War in South Africa, and when the English blockade made it impossible to continue selling to the Boers she went on selling to England.

  47. She can't possibly know how much she did do, though I'm taking my unformed mind back to a comparatively immature civilisation, and shall probably continue to attend a church where they use spring-edged cushions and incandescent burners.

  48. But you will not continue to stay at the Metropole!

  49. I could not come to your father's house and continue free.

  50. Selma debated whether to take Victor the news or to continue her walk.

  51. However, she must continue to try to see him, must go to see him in a few days if she did not happen upon him in her rides or walks.

  52. Arts in which the Norwegians have excelled since early times, and continue to excel, are those of weaving and embroidery.

  53. He wonders how he could have lived so long, or how he could continue existence, without her.

  54. In all time to come he can cause them to continue to exceed breadth after breadth.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "continue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abide; adjourn; advance; bide; carry; chain; connect; continue; dawdle; defer; delay; draw; dwell; elapse; elongate; endure; exist; expire; extend; flit; flow; fly; follow; glide; hold; join; keep; lapse; last; lengthen; linger; link; live; maintain; pass; perpetuate; persevere; persist; pigeonhole; postpone; preserve; prevail; proceed; procrastinate; produce; progress; prolong; prosecute; protract; pull; pursue; push; recess; recur; remain; renew; reserve; reside; resume; run; shelve; slide; slip; soldier; spin; stand; stay; stick; strain; stretch; string; subsist; survive; suspend; sustain; table; take; tarry; temporize; tense; thread; tighten; vibrate; waive; wear


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    continue the; continue their; continued fever; continued his; continued our; continued selection; continued she; continued the; continued till; continued until