How to Use incessantly in a Sentence

incessantly

adverb
  • The Russians have been shelling Bakhmut incessantly for the past three months.
    Natalia Yermak Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • One night in May, Khan’s dog barked incessantly, and the next morning Khan found a note at his back gate.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Jaffe took the bar exam in the early 1970s, and a man seated next to him coughed and sneezed incessantly.
    Steve Henson Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • This need to incessantly consume was the true moral threat.
    Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • And Evan, being a man and having to jump incessantly, was very conscious of the weight of fabric.
    Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Dogs on the dirt road behind the hotel barked incessantly.
    Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • After the kids complained incessantly for a few miles, the friend was always happy to turn it back on.
    Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 29 May 2024
  • Since the invasion, the eastern city of Kharkiv has been bombed incessantly.
    Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2024
  • But the child appears to be hardly older than 18 months and cries incessantly.
    Hamna Zubair, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2022
  • There’s Louie Migliaccio, a slippery kettle-corn mogul who wears his hair in a man bun and vapes incessantly.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024
  • Some dogs may scratch and lick incessantly, while others may seem to only itch in specific areas, such as the ears, chest, or groin.
    Amber, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2022
  • That word doesn’t mean the results should be generic or the product of an ever-growing pipeline to be filled incessantly.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Some of us snack incessantly, some of us stake out the time to prepare gourmet meals for our friends, and others just figure out whatever has the most calories per ounce and pack that.
    Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Heart monitors attached to dogs and cats beeped incessantly in the cramped space as three people worked to prep, medicate and alter the pets.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The dogs bark incessantly, and their owners respond with baby talk.
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • As soon as Allende was elected, the MIR incessantly pressed the government to go beyond the limits of its own program.
    Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Over the course of a scheming, incessantly awkward week in La La Land, Flex connects with an army of celebrities and power brokers who might make his dreams come true.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The incessantly bright and colorful palette of the film’s Swedish summer locale leaves the characters — and viewers — nowhere to hide.
    Dennis Perkins and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 5 July 2024
  • That could be loud music, an incessantly barking dog, or strong odors coming from a tenant’s unit.
    Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Phillips was the annoying fly incessantly buzzing around the ears of opposing wide receivers.
    Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • That is a credit to Hickey, who has prioritized it incessantly since the start of spring training.
    Spencer Nusbaum, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • His mother back home called him incessantly asking for news.
    Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The writer-director hasn’t made a movie in 13 years, and yet he’s asked about his work incessantly by reporters, fans and fellow filmmakers.
    William Earl, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Schaller had told them that before Costello disappeared, there was one client that called her incessantly.
    Morgan Canty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The first is from a primary-school teacher who wants advice on how to keep a fellow teacher from playing music from the movie Frozen incessantly for her class.
    Sean Malin, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2022
  • All now joining the mob incessantly hammering on Dyn’s doors.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Over the next few days, the girl grew aloof, refrained from interacting with her family and wept incessantly, Khyati added.
    Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Cars stuck at intersections watching the procession beeped incessantly; one man banged a pan with a spoon.
    Jack Nicas, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Before doesn’t seem to know what it’s supposed to be about, aside from the obvious but incessantly repeated idea that trauma warps people.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • When the band wasn’t touring, Eddie hunkered down in his home studio for weeks at time, drinking heavily and smoking cigarettes incessantly — overwhelmed, Alex writes, by the burden of being called the greatest guitarist on the planet.
    Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024

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