Continuing can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| continuing - remaining in force or being carried on without letup; "the act provided a continuing annual appropriation"; "the continuing struggle to put food on the table" | ||
| continuing - of long duration; "chronic money problems" | ||
Verb |
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| continue - keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions" | ||
| continue - continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight" | ||
| continue - exist over a prolonged period of time; "The bad weather continued for two more weeks" | ||
| continue - continue talking; "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room" | ||
| continue - continue after an interruption; "The demonstration continued after a break for lunch" | ||
| continue - do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop; "We continued our research into the cause of the illness"; "The landlord persists in asking us to move" | ||
| continue - move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now" | ||
| continue - continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" | ||
| continue - allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings" |
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| 1. | adj. | The act provided a continuing annual appropriation. | |
| 2. | adj. | The continuing struggle to put food on the table. | |
| 3. | adj. | Continue digging. | |
| 4. | adj. | Continue meaningless acts without limit and a person would go insane. | |
| 5. | adj. | Continue reading. | |
| 6. | adj. | Continue digging. | |
| 7. | adj. | Continue meaningless acts without limit and a person would go insane. | |
| 8. | adj. | Continue reading. | |
| 9. | verb | Despite the best efforts of IT, continuing problems with the AS400 application, a better understanding of the inconsistency between stock reconciliation reports, and concerns over the useability of the outright stock screen enquiry are such that I am currently not confident of delivering sufficient accurate information to AA to satisfy their audit requirements - which at a macro level is the transparent audit trail between stock and forward positions to full accounting values. | |
| 10. | verb | The AR/AP SAP data quality reviews for both businesses are continuing so as to provide a detailed analysis as at end Q1. | |
| 11. | verb | This trickle grew into a flood, resulting in 14 wolves being reintroduced in Yellowstone in 1995 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- albeit over the strong and still-continuing objections of ranchers. | |
| 12. | verb | I will play Sudoku then instead of continuing to bother you. | |
| 13. | verb | Education must not be limited to our youth, but it must be a continuing process through our entire lives. | |
| 14. | verb | Scientific research is not a mechanical routine, but a continuing struggle on the part of the scientist. | |
| 15. | verb | Poverty prevented him from continuing his studies. | |
| 16. | verb | "How are things going?" "Terrific. Income and profit are continuing to rise steadily." | |
| 17. | verb | Encouraged by the continuing trickle of hits and the rarely arriving email I've somehow kept going till now. | |
| 18. | verb | The dismissal of foreign minister Tanaka is symbolic of the continuing political turmoil. | |
| 19. | verb | Beating the game without continuing unlocks the secret character. | |
| 20. | verb | After continuing days of warm weather, it became cold. | |
| 21. | verb | In the name of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, Claudio Soarez Rocha expressed admiration for the continuing effort which Esperanto-speaking people throughout the world are always making, for the greater spread of Esperanto. He wrote, amongst other things,"We know that in the history of mankind, there have been languages that have become intrusive as a result of political power, such as Latin, or to a certain extent French and lately, English. We very much wish, in fact, that one day Esperanto could be accepted by the majority of the nations, as a language adopted to facilitate communication without linguistic privileges." | |
| 22. | verb | I'm continuing to drink more than I should. | |
| 23. | verb | Continuing volatility is a safe bet in today's market. |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| The act provided a continuing annual appropriation. |
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| The continuing struggle to put food on the table. |
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| Continue digging. | |
| Continue meaningless acts without limit and a person would go insane. | |
| Continue reading. | |
| Continue digging. | |
| Continue meaningless acts without limit and a person would go insane. | |
| Continue reading. | |
| verb | |
| Despite the best efforts of IT, continuing problems with the AS400 application, a better understanding of the inconsistency between stock reconciliation reports, and concerns over the useability of the outright stock screen enquiry are such that I am currently not confident of delivering sufficient accurate information to AA to satisfy their audit requirements - which at a macro level is the transparent audit trail between stock and forward positions to full accounting values. |
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| The AR/AP SAP data quality reviews for both businesses are continuing so as to provide a detailed analysis as at end Q1. |
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| This trickle grew into a flood, resulting in 14 wolves being reintroduced in Yellowstone in 1995 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- albeit over the strong and still-continuing objections of ranchers. |
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| I will play Sudoku then instead of continuing to bother you. | |
| Education must not be limited to our youth, but it must be a continuing process through our entire lives. | |
| Scientific research is not a mechanical routine, but a continuing struggle on the part of the scientist. | |
| Poverty prevented him from continuing his studies. | |
| "How are things going?" "Terrific. Income and profit are continuing to rise steadily." | |
| Encouraged by the continuing trickle of hits and the rarely arriving email I've somehow kept going till now. | |
| The dismissal of foreign minister Tanaka is symbolic of the continuing political turmoil. | |
| Beating the game without continuing unlocks the secret character. | |
| After continuing days of warm weather, it became cold. | |
| In the name of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, Claudio Soarez Rocha expressed admiration for the continuing effort which Esperanto-speaking people throughout the world are always making, for the greater spread of Esperanto. He wrote, amongst other things,"We know that in the history of mankind, there have been languages that have become intrusive as a result of political power, such as Latin, or to a certain extent French and lately, English. We very much wish, in fact, that one day Esperanto could be accepted by the majority of the nations, as a language adopted to facilitate communication without linguistic privileges." | |
| I'm continuing to drink more than I should. | |
| Continuing volatility is a safe bet in today's market. | |