How to Use constancy in a Sentence

constancy

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  • My 3-year-old was used to the sameness of the days and the constancy of our unit.
    — Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The constancy of the message begins to sway Nugget's belief in the goodness of her friend.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 12 June 2018
  • Don’t mistake the giddiness of this new fling for the constancy of your old love.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • His greatness stems from the overlap of those skills and their constancy.
    — Houston Mitchell, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • And as always with Trump there are questions of constancy and tone.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The city is different, but in a city that has been rapidly changing since I was born, I am used to the constancy of change.
    — Leila Mottley, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2022
  • Sanders’s constancy, in the face of opportunism and hypocrisy from both Republicans and Democrats, was the point.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The pears, the constancy of the fruit tree, reassured Lentine after the existential jolt of 9/11.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Flu evolves at a breakneck pace, so any island of constancy amid this sea of change must mean something.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2012
  • The constancy of car horns in India is legend, a stock line for travel writers.
    — Raghu Karnad, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The lifers’ constancy is useful in a house where the occupants change every four to eight years.
    — Susannah Jacob, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Perhaps that’s because there is something eternal in the brand that mirrors the constancy of change.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The banners are meant to be about constancy: not just in design but also achievement.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Against this background, the constancy of Alice Waters and Chez Panisse is all the more impressive.
    — Paul Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2021
  • Ms. Merkel has won foreign plaudits for her courage and constancy.
    — Alison Smale, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2016
  • But the appeal of the institution of the Papacy, for many, lies in its promise of constancy.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2015
  • The young princess was being groomed to become a symbol of constancy and tradition.
    — Alison Fishburn, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2022
  • And yet, despite the firestorms, White has shown remarkable constancy.
    — Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com, 8 June 2017
  • That makes the stability and constancy of a pod that much more attractive.
    — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Much of the news out of Washington involves turnover among the Trump staff and lack of constancy in Mr. Trump’s personal history.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
  • But the very slowness, the week-in, week-out constancy of climate change or enduring infection, is lulling.
    — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2020
  • As a major-league starter, Mike Fiers models constancy.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2021
  • There’s a reward in smart constancy and the Heat once again has shown why in rebuilding on the fly with the kind of integrity others forfeited.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • In my personal life, the mesmerizing constancy of the surf brings peace.
    — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Nir says the animal’s needs for constancy mirrored her own.
    — Jason Sheeler, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2020
  • While places in the U.S. lack the millennia-old constancy found in the Old World, some areas were inhabited for centuries.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2022
  • These don’t involve many moving parts and don’t require much constancy.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Will any of those people on the roadsides ever have a ruler who served for 70 years as a symbol of constancy during a time when the nation endured enormous change?
    — David Zurawik, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
  • And the tales of these terrifying teeth marks get told with similar constancy.
    — SI.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Beyond the queen’s constancy, Mr. Johnson and others said, was her immense global stature.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2022

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