Synonyms

1. continuance

Sentence Examples

1. To a Parisian accustomed to silken curtains, walls hung with velvet drapery, and the soft perfume of burning wood, the white smoke of which diffuses itself in graceful curves around the room, the appearance of the whitewashed cell which greeted his eyes on awakening seemed like the continuation of some disagreeable dream.
2. These two books are more of a saga than a series, a continuation of the achievements and events in the lives of one family over two generations.
3. In fact Cervantes had no case, or a very bad one, as far as the mere continuation was concerned.
4. The words were connected by no regular continuation, but as one ceased another took up the eulogy, or lamentation, whichever it might be called, and gave vent to her emotions in such language as was suggested by her feelings and the occasion.
5. The road selected was a continuation of the Via Sistina then by cutting off the right angle of the street in which stands Santa Maria Maggiore and proceeding by the Via Urbana and San Pietro in Vincoli, the travellers would find themselves directly opposite the Colosseum.
6. This academy is not an entire single building, but a continuation of several houses on both sides of a street which, growing waste, was purchased and applied to that use.
7. The walls here were extra smooth, so I assumed I entered an artificial chamber of some kind, and recognizing that the other end still had the continuation of the tunnel, I also assumed it was not a room people had once actively lived in.