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Example sentences for "constant"

Lexicographically close words:
constables; constabulary; constamment; constancie; constancy; constante; constantly; constants; constat; constellated
  1. I had been seated, like old sister Mariette, with my eyes turned rather towards the hills than to the valley, being so deep in my thoughts that I did not look, as it was our constant wont to look, if any change had happened over Semur.

  2. My constant prayers for his conversion do not make me incapable of perceiving the nobility of his conduct.

  3. They were constant visitors at the Count's entertainments, and danced at his balls.

  4. It is, undoubtedly, highly dangerous to give the entire reins to imagination; the discipline of a constant exercise of reason is not only salutary, but necessary.

  5. South of Brunn, all round Brunn, are diligent operations, frequent skirmishings, constant strict levyings of contributions.

  6. The case of Hanover, which everybody saw to be his Majesty's vulnerable point, was the constant open door of France and her machinations, and a never-ending theme of angry eloquences in the English Parliament as well.

  7. For it was not merely that in their constant battles the flower of their respective tribes lost their lives,[43] but the mothers, to facilitate their own escape, put to death most of the female infants at the breast.

  8. The negroes on this island are, however, very handy and quick, thanks to the constant intercourse with foreign nations.

  9. Seldom were the heavens clear, and alternately with violent rains, we felt that discomfort arising from constant motion, the result of heavy seas and tremendous rolling, to which the voyager is so frequently exposed.

  10. The rate of wages at St. Thomas is pretty high, and the black population, who form the largest contingent of the labouring population, not only finds constant occupation, but is remarkably well paid besides.

  11. Through life also he was a martyr to ill-health, and constant pain wound up his nerves to a pitch of susceptibility that rendered his views of life different from those of a man in the enjoyment of healthy sensations.

  12. I walked the streets of Damascus with a strange consciousness that I was in some other place at the same time, and with a constant effort to reunite my divided perceptions.

  13. The people looked anxious and alarmed, although they said it was a good thing for all Sicily; that last year they had been in constant fear from earthquakes, and that an eruption invariably left the island quiet for several years.

  14. My companions in the coupé were a young Spanish officer and his pretty Andalusian bride, who was making her first journey from home, and after these mishaps was in a state of constant fear and anxiety.

  15. I said very little about what I saw during the last day or two, for I felt that the constant teasing must have become as wearisome to the others as it had to me.

  16. It was intensely cold, and in order to have a fire we were compelled to hold the pipe down on the little conical camp stove, for with the flopping of the tent and fly, the pipe was in constant motion.

  17. His proud will was kept in constant curb, and when he received the stern rebuke of his employer, or the taunt and sneer of those who would have led him their way, he answered nothing, but turned away with swelling heart and silent lips.

  18. The same necessity of a constant recruit, and frequent review of our ideas, satisfactorily explains, why a number of patients lapse nearly into a state of ideotism.

  19. The idea of becoming a trader, on so large a scale, stimulated him to constant occupation.

  20. He entertained a constant aversion to his keeper, whom he suspected to be connected with his wife.

  21. He had been a drummer with a recruiting party, and had been for some time in the habit of constant intoxication, which was assigned as the cause of his insanity.

  22. Under this constant alarm and disquietude he continued about a week, when he became sullen, and refused his food.

  23. The constant tenor of her discourse was, that she should live but a short time.

  24. The interruptions of his family, the loss of the accustomed obedience of his servants, and the idea of being under restraint, in a place where he considers himself the master, will be constant sources of irritation to his mind.

  25. One of the greatest evils attendant on a residence here is the constant thirst, arising from the extreme aridity of the climate, and the violent action of the Solar rays upon the human frame and constitution.

  26. It had formerly been the residence of a nobleman, but the constant thoroughfare of the French had long since caused its owner to quit the country, leaving at the mercy of the plundering crew his property and his dwelling.

  27. By means of large folding doors, thrown open in hot weather, a constant circulation of fresh air passes through the building.

  28. Upon my father's death, now several years since, the good Sir Hugh would willingly have made me his constant companion.

  29. It was only the result of fatigue induced by the constant excitement of social pleasures.

  30. It is a constant help and inspiration,--the thought of Miss Ellis's devotion to her work and her faithfulness to the end!

  31. It was a constant surprise that so small a candle could give forth so much light.

  32. Alone her task was wrought, Alone the battle fought; Through that long strife her constant hope was stayed On God alone, nor looked for other aid.

  33. In her life she guided and inspired us, and being dead she abides with us, ever a constant presence, to make us humble that we do so little for our great work, and to stir in us desire to be more faithful to our task in the Master's vineyard.

  34. Of that church he has always been a devoted supporter and constant attendant.

  35. Hereafter her letters shall be a source of constant encouragement to me.

  36. Some prison employees, like some physicians, find their sympathies decrease by constant use.

  37. I hope that the thought of all that she has gained is a constant comfort and help to him.

  38. The constant efforts of the young Prince to improve himself, his zeal, energy and ability soon attracted the attention of the Russian noblemen, who said to themselves that here was a ruler worth having.

  39. He was the constant target for the bullet or the dagger of the assassin, and many dogged his tracks as a result of the Spanish proclamation against him.

  40. Border warfare was constant and raids and skirmishes were carried on both by the Scots and the English, with varying success on either side.

  41. Her reign saw the last vestige of bondage and servitude die out; and men were now allowed to practise the Protestant religion without the constant fear of death.

  42. And then he fell to thinking of his own years upon years of constant watchfulness and care, and smiled sadly as he saw how that at times the little far outshone the great.

  43. It was here that Harry Artingale had taken most pains, as a very old friend and constant companion, to embellish the room with his cigar-ends.

  44. As he rode forward now he heard constant tales of the passing of parties of the enemy's cavalry, but he was fortunate enough to get well round to the rear of the Federal lines before he encountered any of them.

  45. It is edifying and consolatory to think that he was outdone by his own arts, and that the rest of his career was attended by almost constant mortification, humiliation, and wretchedness.

  46. Courts totally unconnected with each other would be coming in constant collision.

  47. In the field open to free and constant competition, the books best suited to the wants of each community will in the end succeed.

  48. The continuance of the war and the constant fluctuations in the price of materials, due to the use of paper money, joined to advancing age and ill health, all combined to lead Mr. Smith to withdraw from business.

  49. What are the qualities in these McGuffey Eclectic Readers that won for them through three-quarters of a century such wide and constant use?

  50. By two months of constant and intelligent labor the manuscripts assumed approximate form.

  51. You're just a madcap; if you were my son I should be in constant terror lest you were brought home one day a mangled corpse.

  52. Bill was his constant companion on these expeditions, and proved very useful, having an instinct for the right localities.

  53. John had known he would only have wondered what amusement the porters could have derived from the constant repetition of such an uninspired and uninspiring refrain.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abiding; active; aged; ageless; alike; ancient; antique; ardent; argument; assiduous; automatic; balanced; beaten; ceaseless; certain; changeless; chronic; close; coeternal; committed; compliant; concentrate; connected; conscientious; consistent; consonant; constant; continual; continuing; continuous; correspondent; cyclic; cyclical; dateless; dedicated; delicate; determinate; determined; devoted; devout; diligent; direct; dogged; durable; duteous; dutiful; element; endless; enduring; equable; equal; equation; eternal; even; evergreen; everlasting; exact; express; faithful; fast; featureless; fine; firm; fixed; flat; flinty; formula; frequent; frozen; habitual; hackneyed; hardy; homogeneous; immediate; immemorial; immobile; immortal; immovable; immutable; inalterable; incessant; inconvertible; indefatigable; indefeasible; indelible; indestructible; indomitable; industrious; inerrant; inert; infallible; infinite; inflexible; ingrained; insistent; intact; interminable; invariable; inveterate; invincible; inviolate; ironclad; irretrievable; irreversible; irrevocable; joined; lasting; level; liege; linked; loyal; mathematical; measured; mechanical; methodical; meticulous; microscopic; mindful; minute; moderate; monolithic; monotonous; nice; noble; observant; obstinate; old; ongoing; ordered; orderly; patient; peaceful; perdurable; perennial; periodic; permanent; perpetual; persevering; persistent; pertinacious; pinpoint; plodding; plugging; practicing; precise; preoccupied; pulsating; punctilious; punctual; quiescent; rapid; rapt; recurrent; refined; regardful; regular; relentless; religious; remaining; repeated; repetitive; resolute; rigid; rigorous; routine; running; same; scientific; scrupulous; seamless; sedulous; serried; settled; severe; sleepless; smooth; solid; square; stable; staccato; static; stationary; staunch; steadfast; steady; steely; stereotyped; straight; strict; stubborn; stuttering; subtle; sure; sustained; systematic; temperate; tenacious; tested; timeless; tireless; torpid; tough; trite; true; unalterable; unaltered; unbending; unbroken; unceasing; unchangeable; unchanging; unchecked; unconquerable; undaunted; undeviating; undifferentiated; unending; unerring; unfading; unfailing; unfaltering; unflagging; unflinching; uniform; unintermittent; uninterrupted; unrelenting; unrelieved; unremitting; unruffled; unshaken; unstopped; unsusceptible; unswerving; untiring; unvarying; unwavering; unwearied; unyielding; vibrating; vital


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    constant current; constant fire; constant occurrence; constant pressure; constant quantity; constant source; constant state; constant stream; constant succession; constant supply; constant temperature; constant tendency; constant voltage; constant volume; constant wind; constantly changing; constantly increasing