How to Use continental in a Sentence

continental

adjective
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  • They will be touring Continental Europe.
  • The hotel combines American comfort with continental elegance.
  • The Xiongnu encompassed a range of tribes across a stretch of steppe about as wide as the continental United States.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The African Union is a continental body consisting of the 55 member states that make up the countries of the African continent.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The country is poised to be a leader for west Africa and even continental Africa in terms of economic growth.
    — Meron Demisse, Quartz, 9 Feb. 2023
  • That Sargassum belt is almost twice the width of the continental United States.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
  • The transmitter has a range of more than 1,800 miles, so the signal will be received just about anywhere in the continental United States.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But in waiting, the balloon passed over -- and could have spied on -- the most sensitive strategic sites in the continental United States.
    — Sarah Day Owen Wiskirchen, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • To knock the price down further, Linenspa also offers free shipping in the continental US and free returns.
    — Jack Byram, Health, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In that sense, India is more akin to the European Union in the continental scale of its diversity.
    — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The city and its interiors were built over 22 weeks on the largest soundstage in continental Europe.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • National parks are the few places left in the continental United States where wild animals can roam free.
    — Zayna Syed, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2023
  • That represents more than half of the continental United States.
    — Abigail Bassett, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Today, somebody can eat breakfast on one end of the continental United States and dinner on the other.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In the warmer months, there’s often not a big contrast in temperature across the continental United States.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Mammoths, mastodons, huge bison, horses, camels, very large ground sloths and giant short-faced bears all died out as the huge continental ice sheets disappeared at the end of the ice age.
    — Christopher R. Moore, Fortune, 17 June 2023
  • The first of the big continental rivalries in the group stage, with Messi potentially sealing his and Argentina’s spot in the last 16.
    — Steve Douglas, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The studio claims the setup’s yield is about three times greater in high-latitude areas than in continental climates.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Nicole is a rare storm: Only one hurricane on record has made landfall after Nov. 4 in the continental U.S.
    — Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Some of the tallest trees in continental Europe are redwoods, both giant sequoias and coast, planted in the 19th century.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • According to a study from 2010, just one hectare of land in the forest contains more tree species than are native to the continental United States and Canada combined.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Inmarsat used the data to determine the plane flew south into the Indian Ocean rather than bank north over continental Asia.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The sale, at about 3 cents an acre, nearly doubled the size of the United States and propelled the young country toward becoming a continental power.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Planting one trillion trees would also require a massive amount of space — roughly the size of the continental United States.
    — Stephen Groves, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
  • The area gets less than 20 inches of rain a year, on average, about one-third less than the continental United States as a whole — not nearly enough to replace the water being pumped from the ground.
    — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • And so the natural abundance of copper, think like 50 parts per million, 60 parts per million in the upper continental crust.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The land here is dotted with hill towns that wine lovers salivate over — Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Rasteau — as the climate becomes less continental and more Mediterranean.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • So were over 90 million others across the continental United States.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Basic model of a subduction zone, showing how the oceanic crust is shoved underneath the continental crust.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Travelers who want to explore the continental delights of the old country should probably avoid the busy summer months and instead opt for off-season travel during the fall and winter months.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024

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