How to Use continuum in a Sentence

continuum

noun
  • His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the continuum between charitable and self-serving.
  • They got swallowed by points on their continuum that were just too hard.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The use of the word thug is a part of that history and continuum.
    — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Seen as a continuum, there is no end in sight to this tragic series of events.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The links held up when the researchers looked at a continuum of starting times.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Apart from faith, there is a wide continuum of different views on what can or could be done.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • At the far end of this continuum of violence lies civil wars and pogroms.
    — Mark Warren, Esquire, 9 Feb. 2011
  • At that point, rip a hole in the space-time continuum, begin anew, and try to vex the Veks again.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Like positive habits, bad habits exist on a continuum of easy to change and hard to change.
    — Popular Science, 31 Dec. 2019
  • But, for me, part of that continuum of getting that high energy part of him.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
  • So does discovering new artists, who are adding to that continuum in large and small ways.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Over the course of our careers, many of us loop around this continuum several times.
    — Kathryn Crawford Saxer, The Seattle Times, 3 Aug. 2018
  • Giegerich said that in the acute care arena, nurses are needed across the continuum of care.
    — Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2020
  • These tools can play an important role in the broader continuum of care.
    — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
  • This trunk rattler wants to rip your brain through the space-time continuum onto a dance floor of true freedom.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 July 2019
  • Death was not a punctuation but a hyphen or em dash in the continuum of life.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 4 July 2017
  • One of the saddest things to me in this moment is that people have broken up the continuum.
    — Cynthia R. Greenlee, SELF, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Offering a continuum of care for the homeless is listed as a two-year goal.
    — Karen Huppertz, ajc, 29 June 2018
  • Having your entire concept of the space-time continuum blown up will do that to a person.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But a continuum seems to exist.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Americans seemed to view a Jew saying such a thing on a continuum from strange to stupid.
    — WSJ, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Entrepreneurs and investors are now stepping up to solve the challenges in the care continuum.
    — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The idea is that each one is suspended in the space time continuum through the use of non fungible tokens.
    — Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Works in this vein might be on the same continuum as the artists' primary projects but are more warm-up act than main performance.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Just don’t expect this one to rip through the space-time continuum IRL.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Morikawa, style-wise, falls somewhere in the middle on the continuum of recent Cal greats.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • There’s a pleasing cycle-of-life continuum in the way that repaired bond frees the grandmother to let go.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Finding that sweet spot on the continuum is essential.
    — Inga Bielińska, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Gaza’s cuisine is part of the culinary continuum of the Levant.
    — The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Patents, though, are only one cobblestone in the continuum of invention that paves the way to progress.
    — Daniel C. Schlenoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2017

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