continent
Example Sentences
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Middle Eastern countries have long meddled in Africa, jostling for influence in the most strategic parts of the continent.
“Their structure will finally collapse across the entire continent.”
From Los Angeles Times
Still, news that the autocrat who separated them had been captured delivered a sense of long-awaited elation and united the siblings and cousins across continents for a rare four-hour phone call as the night unfolded.
From Los Angeles Times
But that flair for putting on a show helped him forge a life of deception and fraud across three continents.
From BBC
Home security company Verisure was the continent’s largest IPO of the year, raising close to 3.2 billion euros when it listed in Stockholm in October.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
