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How to use the word Continents in a Sentence?

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Believe it or not, we might be able to start seeing surface features on the nearest exoplanets, instead of seeing them as pinpoints of light, we might be able to tell if they have continents, for example.

Edward Balaban

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I could stay connected to your arms for a thousand years, I found the Africa to my India like continents colliding in the space of time. I would join all continents in search for your heart.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

Middle Egypt, from quite early on, was Middle Egypt because Middle Egypt is at the crossroads of two continents.

Salima Ikram

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Well, Whoopi, there’s no question that the Holocaust was about race. That’s how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty, you see, Hitler’s ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a ‘master race,’ and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was racialized antisemitism.

Jonathan Greenblatt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's no question that the Holocaust was about race. That's how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries, with deliberate and ruthless cruelty.

Jonathan Greenblatt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Well, Whoopi, there’s no question that the Holocaust was about race. That’s how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty, you see, Hitler’s ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a ‘master race,’ and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was racialized anti-Semitism.

Jonathan Greenblatt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When we find a Planet B, I want it to be a true Earth twin, a planet orbiting a sun-like star and the Earth-like orbit that has a thin atmosphere and oceans and continents.

Sara Seager

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is thought that The Vikings ventured west to find new raw materials, most notably wood, by traveling between the continents for such materials, The Vikings has been described as the first step in globalization.

Michael Dee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The IPCC is The IPCC report for climate science, but we tend tofocus very selectively on the worst news, often overstating the effects of Climate Change on extreme weather events. Oftenadaptation is ignored, although it can alleviate much or sometimes almost all of climate damages, although climate change in total has negative impacts, we rarely hear about thepositive impacts, such as aprofound global greeningof the planet, equivalent to two more continents of green, each the size of Australia.

Bjorn Lomborg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We discovered that the ecological diversity of proboscideans increased drastically once they dispersed from Africa to Eurasia 20 million years ago and to North America 16 million years ago, when land connections between these continents formed.

Juha Saarinen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I said' Hey, Houston, I've got World Series-winning in my window,' and World Series-winning is about the size of your thumbnail if you hold World Series-winning out arm's length in front of you. The whole focus of your attention goes into this little thing out there. It's in a black void, which makes its colors even more impressive. Primarily, you get the blue of the oceans, the white of the clouds, you get a little streak of tan that we call continents, but they're not that noticeable. It just looks glorious.

Michael Collins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What technology has done is it’s enabled them to spread far more quickly and far more internationally in a way that is fairly unprecedented, rumour can begin in Italy one day and it can be across multiple continents a few days later, as we have seen happen several times.

Tom Phillips

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We saw tremendous bidding up until the moment the sale closed, with the value more than doubling in the final hour alone, that coupled with strong international bidding from six countries on four continents shows not only the incredible appeal of Michael Jordan... but also that sneaker collecting is truly a global and growing market.

Brahm Wachter

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

At the edges of Rodinia, where you have continents colliding, you'd see these mountain belts like the Himalayas begin to form, that could have caused large amounts of erosion.

Researcher Rebecca Flowers

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We can compare this pandemic to a worldwide fire that has spread at lightning speed on all continents, it was also considered an encouragement, more than a distress signal, everybody was hearing it and it brought unity with residents fighting the fire.

Renato Hausler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

With our strong position in key markets across three continents and innovation focus, we expect to deliver above-market growth, at the same time, our initiatives to improve profitability should enable us to operate within our target margin corridor over the medium term.

Samit Atiya

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have to be alert to the possibility of a pandemic, in the past week we went from having this virus on three continents to having it on six continents. ... Any time something's going at that rate, it has to be concerning.

Peter Marks

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the past week we went from having this virus on three continents to having it on six continents. ... Any time something's going at that rate, it has to be concerning.

Peter Marks

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There are a lot of great teams at Four Continents but of course the reigning World Champions are here and they always push us, we're really two of their biggest fans... we're really thrilled to watch them and to learn from them. But of course, we're always hoping to win.

Kirsten Moore-Towers

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The melting of ice sheets after Snowball Earth caused a dramatic rise in sea level, ultimately flooding the continents, driving a remarkable retreat of shorelines and the development of clearer ocean water, researchers have long been aware that the timing of Snowball Earth and the development of more complex life seem to have coincided, but no one has really thought about how the oceans being starved of sediment might have helped ancient organisms thrive in the oceans.

Milo Barham

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I said 'hey, Houston, I've got the world in my window,' and the world is about the size of your thumbnail if you hold it out arm's length in front of you. The whole focus of your attention goes into this little thing out there. It's in a black void, which makes its colors even more impressive. Primarily, you get the blue of the oceans, the white of the clouds, you get a little streak of tan that we call continents, but they're not that noticeable. It just looks glorious.

Michael Collins

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have always said that, if it is to have a long-term future, our sport must preserve its historic venues and Silverstone and Great Britain represent the cradle of this sport, formula One is a global sport, held on five continents, watched by an audience of over 500 million fans around the world and our aim is to grow this number by bringing the sport we love to new countries, while also maintaining its roots.

Formula One

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

At this point, you've had 17 previous studies done in seven countries, three different continents, involving hundreds of thousands of children, i think it's fair to say a truth has emerged.

Paul Offit

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Nobel Peace Prize reflects this recognition of suffering and the need for just reparations for female victims of rape and sexual violence in countries across the world and on all continents, i dedicate The Nobel Peace Prize to women of all countries in the world, harmed by conflict and facing violence every day. ... To the survivors from all over the world, I would like to tell you that through The Nobel Peace Prize, the world is listening to you and refuses to remain indifferent. The world refuses to stand idly in the face of your suffering.

Denis Mukwege

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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