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Example sentences for "constantly"

Lexicographically close words:
constamment; constancie; constancy; constant; constante; constants; constat; constellated; constellation; constellations
  1. He was urged constantly by the leaders of the Reform Bill to hasten his visit to the House.

  2. Then Josepha was constantly bringing the village affairs into the house affairs, and poor women with easy, independent manners, were very troublesome to Britton and his wife.

  3. For Annie did not know that Dick's father had been constantly adding to Dick's honeymoon holiday.

  4. In the meantime the home life at Annis Hall was not only changed but constantly changing.

  5. The squire's interest in it constantly increased, and Dick's enthusiasm and ability developed with every day's exigencies.

  6. His face was handsome, and generally wore a kind thoughtful expression, constantly breaking into broad smiles.

  7. She had never had a formal "coming out," and being the eldest of five girls she had helped her mother to manage a household, constantly living a little above its income.

  8. She is almost constantly with her father, who, now, can hardly be said to live, and needs constant care.

  9. This they repeated several times, Morton's companion constantly resisting every movement on his part to vary in the least the course of their promenade.

  10. She seemed to him the most wayward of mortals; yet in the midst of this lawlessness, generous instincts were constantly betraying themselves, and a certain native grace, a charm of womanhood, followed her wildest caprices.

  11. He is not so well known as the others, or rather he wasn't associated so closely with the Embassy, and he was constantly at the Savoy on his own account.

  12. When he entered the omnibus, there seemed to Penelope, who found herself constantly watching him closely, a certain added gravity in his demeanor.

  13. As faith and baptism are constantly so closely connected together in the New Testament, an opinion was likely to arise that where there could be no faith there could also be no baptism.

  14. In this manner the more highly favored of either sex are mated, and natural selections made by which better ever producing better, the species in its constant variation is constantly improved.

  15. At the party I saw them constantly smiling at each other, and Mrs. Hamilton said very pointedly something about young people fancying no one saw their inclinations.

  16. You know Jeanie always looks so miserable; well, it's because she is constantly thinking of Frank Weston.

  17. Besides all this time, Toney was constantly writing to the architect about plans for "Stone House," and to Mr. Staines about the purchase of the land.

  18. Groot has constantly opposed your Majesty's interest at Amsterdam.

  19. Doth Cardinal Barbarinus, who recommended this work[491], and constantly carries it with him, favour Socinianism?

  20. I have constantly done the last; but your example makes me at present prefer the first: you have defended me with so much friendship and steadiness, that if I should sit still, I might justly be accused of indolence.

  21. The rates were constantly altered, and generally increased in amount, as also in number, in each of the three kingdoms, and without uniformity in either two.

  22. I know that more than three years ago there were men who, finding this assertion constantly in the way of their schemes to bring about the ascendency and perpetuation of Slavery, denied the truth of it.

  23. This pretension, which is so constantly manifest, finds partisans naturally on the other side of the Chamber.

  24. The student who feels that he is making daily progress, constantly learning something new, who sees the shadows by which he was originally surrounded gradually exchanged for an atmosphere of light, cannot fail to be happy.

  25. From the commencement of 1852 until within a week of his death, we find him constantly active, with the weight of fourscore years and more; yet he never for a moment faltered in his mission.

  26. His activity and anxiety to be about his Master's business carried him constantly into the midst of all important denominational assemblies; and here he was ever received, both his presence and his counsel, with profound respect.

  27. To the people, the doctrine I preached was new, and the opposition lacked not for bitterness; and such was my condition that I was constantly in conflict, and never allowed to put off my armor to rest, day or night.

  28. In reference to his frequent travels about the country, we would that it were possible to obtain more of the numerous incidents, so illustrative and characteristic, that used so constantly to occur to him.

  29. It was his practice to pray most earnestly with the sick, to whose bedside he was constantly being called.

  30. Thus filled with the word, thus made conversant with its glowing truths and beauties, he constantly renewed and multiplied the means of awakening and confirming faith in others.

  31. But such is the force of habit that those early impressions were at first constantly recurring to my mind, and acting as stumbling blocks in the way of my onward progress.

  32. His inquiring and intelligent spirit constantly sympathized with minds of kindred stamp, nor did he ever lose his warm sympathies for youth.

  33. My sincere prayers are constantly offered for their happiness, well-being, and spiritual good.

  34. That subtilty with which the serpent beguiled Eve is constantly at work, persuading us to seek to render religion popular in the eyes of the world.

  35. There is no visible access to this room but through another, in which they who wish to satisfy their curiosity constantly sit.

  36. Sitting up, she heard the voice continued precisely in the usual mode constantly resorted to by the affectionate child, to engage his nurse’s nocturnal attention, if through fatigue reluctant to be disturbed.

  37. Amazement struck the unhappy victim, for as he cast his hopeless eyes around, he saw the water constantly dripping from the cold stone walls on every side, which kept the floor, made of stone, constantly wet and cold as ice.

  38. They had men constantly employed outside the yard, to collect all the Spanish dollars they could, and bring them into the prison.

  39. Thus, for centuries after the Conquest, the Domesday book was constantly appealed to as evidence that this manor or that was of 'ancient demesne,' i.

  40. But from the nature of the case it was inevitable that the area of folkland or royal demesne must constantly be lessened as each succeeding grant increased the area of the boc-land.

  41. He constantly felt her grieving for him, for the failure of all his hopes, the wreck of all a man holds so precious.

  42. We were stationed off Batz, and obliged to be constantly on the alert; but when Flushing surrendered we had more leisure, and we employed it in procuring some articles for our table, to which we had been too long strangers.

  43. Whenever he flogged the men, which he was constantly doing, he never failed to upbraid them with ingratitude, and the indulgences which they received from him.

  44. Keeping constantly on deck, almost night and day, I attended to the course of the vessel and the sail she carried, never taking the trouble to consult the lieutenant, who was generally senseless in his cabin.

  45. Several of the officers were under arrest, and notwithstanding the heat of their cabins in that warm climate, were kept constantly confined to them with a sentinel at the door.

  46. During the progress of the Reform Bill, Cabinet Ministers constantly dined with her and openly discussed the political situation during the meal.

  47. We have no real pleasure in playing it, but constantly think, "Oh, for the first movement!

  48. Mrs. McIlrath declared the building was an "old cobra trap," and constantly on the watch for scorpions and snakes, it was but natural that when we retired our dreams were of reptiles.

  49. But they do know that delays cause great annoyance, and they keep you constantly at the best speed you are capable of making, lest some descending caravan meet you and confusion ensue.

  50. Everywhere the heat is talked about and guarded against, and yet, with huge fans swung constantly over one's head, with cooling draughts on a table by your side, the perspiration pours from every part of the body.

  51. Having been constantly racing with the sun, and so gaining time, at 7:16 o'clock we had entered upon Tuesday, Oct.

  52. I shouted to her constantly to keep her toes moving, and to bend her feet as much as possible.

  53. The dear one constantly reminded her of the following words: "There is a great harvest but few workers!

  54. For a whole week he constantly went through all the different religious services and ate nothing, nor did he drink anything.

  55. Noticing also that the quantity of rice was constantly diminishing, he assumed a more decided tone: "Enough!

  56. Just so the prophecies of St. Nina, who was constantly and uninterruptedly repeating to them that he who does not let himself be baptized, would never behold the real light, awakening in them the greatest enthusiasm.

  57. Ytkrondjan--the Chaldean God and our Armaz are constantly fighting.

  58. His mother put the breathless corpse near the foot of the cross and from morning till evening unceasingly prayed with tears constantly in her eyes.

  59. To the general astonishment it really kept its freshness and beauty during thirty-seven days, as though it had been replanted with a root or been constantly refreshed by living water.

  60. There he devoted himself to fasting, praying and preaching, rebuking the tremendous worldly splendor with which the Emperor constantly surrounded him.

  61. It is known that our god once directed the sea against his enemies and that is the reason why they now revenge themselves by letting this disaster occur just as the rulers of the earth constantly do.

  62. He was not expected, at the outset, to give his whole time, but he soon became so fully identified with the work that he was almost constantly employed.

  63. In a large city, the population is constantly changing, and unless the Pastor shall be on the alert in looking up the people, members of his own flock, to say nothing of others, will drop out of sight.

  64. The most humane provisions were constantly evaded in practice; and the toils for ensnaring the victim were so ingeniously multiplied, that few, very few, were permitted to escape without some censure.

  65. He possessed sixty towns and fortresses, and kept three thousand lances constantly in pay.

  66. A ceremony eminently symbolical of that superiority of law over prerogative, which was so constantly asserted in Aragon.

  67. Intelligence of their triumphant progress in the war was constantly transmitted to the pope, who returned his benediction, accompanied by more substantial marks of favor, in bulls of crusade, and taxes on ecclesiastical rents.

  68. Through the busy afternoon Mr. Opp referred constantly to his watch, and in spite of the manifold duties to be performed, longed impatiently for evening to arrive.

  69. He felt a queer, dull sensation about his head, and he constantly drew his hand across his eyes to dispel the impression of a mist before them.

  70. White butterflies fluttered constantly across their path, and overhead, hidden somewhere in the branches, the birds kept up a constant song.

  71. I should like," continued Don Torribio, "to be constantly apprised of whatever may happen to him.

  72. To lessen the chance of a mutiny amongst them, they shall be formed into two divisions--one of which shall be constantly employed in scouring the neighbourhood, while the other remains in camp.

  73. The rain fell in torrents, the lightning flashed incessantly, and the peals of thunder rolled majestically among the high cliffs, from which enormous crags were constantly detached, and hurled crashing into the river.

  74. It is of the utmost importance that those engaged in dairy work be familiar with these antagonistic forces since it is constantly necessary to repress or to kill outright the bacteria in milk and other dairy products.

  75. In America, this type was introduced by Swiss immigrants, and is being made in constantly increasing quantities in Ohio and Wisconsin.

  76. The discs are of considerable size; thus, making a large heating surface; the milk is thus heated quickly, and is constantly stirred by the rotation of the heating discs.

  77. Another group of bacteria which may be classed among the desirable acid-forming organisms is constantly found in milk.

  78. Barber has shown that one of the forms of bacteria constantly found in milk will divide in 17 minutes at 98 deg.

  79. Environmental conditions of a detrimental character are constantly at work tending to repress the activity of bacteria or to destroy them.

  80. All male relatives of the deceased wore a belt around the waist, besides which they constantly wore mittens.

  81. He goes through a number of gyrations and contortions, constantly hallooing and calling, till suddenly the imaginary deer is among them.

  82. But probably not the saints alone will be saved, and it is some such hope that Mr. White has constantly in mind when making his constant appeal to conscience.

  83. The story is of people who constantly talk so wonderfully well beyond the wont even of society people that the utmost skill of the author, who cannot subdue their brilliancy, is needed to make us feel their reality.

  84. Such was Coleridge's wish, and with this view, and with this end, he constantly employed his time.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constantly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    always; cease; constantly; continually; daily; endlessly; eternally; ever; faithfully; firmly; hourly; incessantly; infinitely; interminably; intermittently; invariably; methodically; monotonously; orderly; perennially; permanently; perpetually; rapidly; regularly; staunchly; steadily; systematically; together; turn


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    constantly changing; constantly increasing