continent
Example Sentences
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Parkrun was founded in 2004 and now hundreds of thousands of people across 22 countries and five continents take part in free, weekly, timed five-kilometre running events each weekend in parks and other locations.
From BBC
The development of modernity, then, consists in increasingly detailed maps of the undiscovered continent that Machiavelli perceived only in part.
Sleeping upstairs—with Fleetwood on another continent—has done a world of good.
From Literature
On Europe’s eastern flank, the Polish economy has been undergoing a quiet revolution as the continent’s heavyweights have faltered.
Banks were early beneficiaries of the development, rising strongly across the continent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
