CONTINENTAL in a Sentence

Learn CONTINENTAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for CONTINENTAL, such as:
1. A continental climate is different from an insular one.
2. He sees no signs of improvement in the UK and continental economy.
3. In the U.K., police are much more active than in continental Europe.
4. The two peaks in the distribution represent the continental platforms and the ocean basins.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CONTINENTAL
continental
 a.  of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War
 a.  of or relating to or characteristic of a continent
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1  A continental climate is different from an insular one.
2  He sees no signs of improvement in the UK and continental economy.
3  The two peaks in the distribution represent the continental platforms and the ocean basins.
4  In the U.K., police are much more active than in continental Europe.
5  Netflix has been signing up viewers in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands and the Nordic countries; and next week it starts invading the continental heartland, beginning with France.