How to Use continuum in a Sentence

continuum

noun
  • His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the continuum between charitable and self-serving.
  • At that point, rip a hole in the space-time continuum, begin anew, and try to vex the Veks again.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2018
  • All of that behavior needs to be confronted, but there is a continuum.
    Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Morikawa, style-wise, falls somewhere in the middle on the continuum of recent Cal greats.
    Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • On that continuum, the Russian campaign seems pretty vanilla.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The process doesn’t consist of any single thing, but a continuum of digital technologies, software systems, and robotic hardware.
    Brooks Rainwater, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Insights about how the brain processes words could illuminate a vast continuum of human experience.
    Emily Makowski, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Nuclear medicine is an essential aspect of the care continuum here at Kelsey-Seybold Clinic.
    Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Recovery requires a continuum of care—from detox, to residential treatment, to transitional housing—to reclaim your life.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2018
  • Fortune interviewed more than three dozen executives at companies across the health care continuum, along with entrepreneurs, doctors, patients, and other experts.
    Fortune, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The use of the word thug is a part of that history and continuum.
    Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The space-time continuum is funny like that near the comet.
    Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 22 July 2018
  • The nature of it being a part of a continuum that persists to this day.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Just don’t expect this one to rip through the space-time continuum IRL.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2022
  • So everyone needs to be aware of this in the care continuum.
    Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 July 2018
  • Think of a car as being on a continuum: Somewhere between the shiny new car and its place on the scrap pile is (drum roll) you.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
  • Giegerich said that in the acute care arena, nurses are needed across the continuum of care.
    Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2020
  • One of the saddest things to me in this moment is that people have broken up the continuum.
    Cynthia R. Greenlee, SELF, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The program started in 1908 with founders who wanted this aspect of health care as part of the continuum of care.
    Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Apart from faith, there is a wide continuum of different views on what can or could be done.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • They got swallowed by points on their continuum that were just too hard.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Like positive habits, bad habits exist on a continuum of easy to change and hard to change.
    Popular Science, 31 Dec. 2019
  • This trunk rattler wants to rip your brain through the space-time continuum onto a dance floor of true freedom.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 July 2019
  • Gaza’s cuisine is part of the culinary continuum of the Levant.
    The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Americans seemed to view a Jew saying such a thing on a continuum from strange to stupid.
    WSJ, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Entrepreneurs and investors are now stepping up to solve the challenges in the care continuum.
    Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Over the past the two decades, the force continuum has been taught in police academies across the nation, Haberfeld said.
    Jerome Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • At one end of this continuum would be somebody in a coma.
    Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Scientists describe the risk as a continuum from high to low; few believe the risk is high at 26 feet.
    Joanne Silberner, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Long Beach, Glendale and Los Angeles each have their own continuum of care.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024

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