continue
IPA: kʌntˈɪnju
noun
- (video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.
verb
- (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
- (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
- (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
- (intransitive, copulative sense obsolete) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
- (intransitive) To resume.
- (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
- (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
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Examples of "continue" in Sentences
- Musicals continued at the Gaiety.
- But the expulsions continued relentlessly.
- The inchoate process has evidently continued to progress.
- Ever the trooper, he continued undaunted with the ceremony.
- The 1980s progressed and the student body continued to dwindle.
- The Chinese continued to resist stubbornly and no progress was made.
- The government's stance on saccharin has continued to waver ever since.
- Put buyers may profit if shares in the name continue to slide in the next few weeks.
- Resolved 1st That the University be opened for the admission of pupils on the 1st Monday in September next, and that the term continue, with two weeks vacation at
- In idiomatic English, it is no more redundant to say “the hoi polloi” than it is to say “the rabble,” and most writers who use the term continue to precede it with *the*
- Terms were proposed differing in length from three to nine years; and a proposition was even made by one distinguished member to make the term continue during good behavior, which is practically for life.
- I cannot comprehend why her label continue to dish out the cash for this chick - single after single, video after video and she still isn't selling anywhere near what she should be - even with that crappy re-release.
- Heavy trading traffic in the weekly put options indicates some traders are taking short-term bearish positions on the Chinese internet company in case shares in the name continue to come under fire over the next several sessions to expiration.
- It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue _for a time_ to pray; but we must patiently, believingly continue in prayer, until we obtain an answer; and further, we have not only to _continue_ in prayer unto the end, but we have also _to believe_ that God does hear us, and will answer our prayers.
- It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue _for a time_ to pray; but we must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer; and, further, we have not only _to continue_ in prayer unto the end, but we have also _to believe_ that God does hear us, and will answer our prayers.
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