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CONTINUALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seemingly without interruption

Example:

complained continually that there wasn't enough money

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

continual (recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series)

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 Context examples: 

The people at the inn were alert all night, awaiting his coming, and one or other of them seems to have continually had an eye upon the road.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The universe continually challenges and tests us, for at the core, the universe moves toward creating strength and eliminating weakness.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Bingley was sure of being liked wherever he appeared, Darcy was continually giving offense.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And this question, which he was continually repeating to himself, though oftenest answered with a “Yes,” had sometimes its “No.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

On a certain evening, which had been prearranged, I sent my friend final instructions, for the man was forever on the alert and continually changed his room.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For all that, the smile had faded from his face, and I observed that he glanced continually over his shoulder into the crowd behind him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While many applications require increasingly small lasers, researchers continually run into the same roadblock: Nanolasers tend to be much less efficient than their macroscopic counterparts.

(Tiny, biocompatible laser could function inside living tissues, National Science Foundation)

They observed that during normal conditions, meningeal macrophages were on constant alert against threats, continually extending their thin arms and surveying their environment.

(Meningitis changes immune cell makeup in the mouse brain lining, National Institutes of Health)

Oxidized nucleotides are continually removed by the cell.

(Structural Snapshots of Damaged DNA, NIH)