How To Use Incessant In A Sentence

So the problem I faced in solitary, where incessant remembering strove for possession of me, was the problem of forgetting. Chapter 6
It contests every inch of space with man, and, aided by incessant heat and moisture, constantly wrests from him his conquests and buries them in a fury of viridescence. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
The 18th century saw incessant warfare between the colonial powers, towns repeatedly sacked, and islands taken and retaken, often for use as bargaining counters at the peace.
He lambasted software companies for piling on marginal features in incessant upgrades that can downgrade user efficiency.
He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth. Vandover and the Brute

First of all, under the flail of the incessant wind, a crust would form on the surface of the snow of the type we knew as "piecrust," when out sledging. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
The September rain beat down on the roof incessantly, and the grey, cloudy skies made the whole situation depressing.
Patients may be unaware of vocal tics, but family members may find the incessant noises grating.
I preserved this mutilated object with uncommon care, watching it almost incessantly day and night: expecting another exuviation which might be attended with interesting consequences, I felt much anxiety for its survivance. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
Their name, which he had long avoided mentioning, was incessantly on his lips: but always the same, always inclined naturally and systematically, to have more strings than one to his bow, he appeared to incline alternately _for the younger branch, and for the reigning branch_. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
Caught under by the breeze, the awnings of the fore-deck bellied upwards and collapsed slowly, and above their heavy flapping the gray stuff of Captain Whalley's roomy coat fluttered incessantly around his arms and trunk.
He had brilliant darting eyes and talked incessantly. The Crossing-Place
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
Landon cracked his eyes open and grimaced in pain from the pounding headache; like an incessant jackhammer drilling into his skull at all angles.
The incessant barking of a neighborhood dog in Nogent that day seemed a bad omen.
The noise was incessant throughout the night. Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet
The twins were still making life hell for the old fogies around us with their incessant ‘Beatlemania’ style screaming.
Before his illumination, Rousseau's thoughts had turned incessantly upon his relation to his fellow men.
The void of the Berlin Museum is incessant, obtrusive and silent.
After that comment, sure enough her sister conjured up the same lecture about swearing to Blair, Blair was just a bit put down when she couldn't walk away from this incessant jabber of her sister's idea on etiquette.
It is also reminiscent of "guzzle" which is in effect what you do .. hoovering up the incessant feeds on the website. Shiny Shiny
He played the song incessantly, ignoring my pleas for mercy and grannyish objections to its author's seditious intent.
The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
Agents surround promising youngsters and talk incessantly about fame and fortune. Times, Sunday Times
He had merely stood there, tall and silent, piercing her with his incessant gaze, until her words had died to a senseless babble.
[Page 32] grace of architecture; but the taxi-cabs and private motors are almost as abundant as in peace-time, and the peril of pedestrianism is kept at its normal pitch by the incessant dashing to and fro of those unrivalled engines of destruction, the hospital and War Office motors. Fighting France
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
As it poured incessantly out of him, he noticed a bull across the field eyeing him interestingly.
The noise was incessant and disturbing and the battle was fierce. The Sun
I sigh, crack one eye, and regard the interplay of shadows on the wall, listening to the incessant staccato of the downpour.
The media tribune was overflowing with hundreds of reporters, all drawn to an event that has been hyped incessantly since Phelps entered and qualified for the 200 free at the U.S. Olympic trials last month.
Rain trickled incessantly down each man's face and glistened in dusty beads upon foreheads, clothing at last gave way to complete saturation, and water, collecting in pools until over ankle deep, oozed slushily in and out of the eyelet holes. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
‘Typhoon’ ties all the elements into an expressionist's cloud - bright splashes and rough scratches, calls, Fernandez's elegiac guitar, heavy African polyrhythms and an incessantly looped vocal sample.
The Department of Community Affairs is Florida's last line of defense against incessant, unrelenting efforts to overbuild and overdevelop our communities. Tcpalm.com Stories
The film is entirely dependent on pages of dialogue and long scenes filled with incessantly talking heads. Times, Sunday Times
Being debarred from the deck by incessant showers of spray, sleet, and snow, and the cold of mid-winter being unbearable in the dark, damp saloon, I went to bed at four for the first two days. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
There were many times when I envied the moral clarity of those priests as they tended their flocks of young believers, incessantly preaching the demands of sexual purity.
The contest for client states that reached through Africa, Asia and the Middle East produced sponsored mobs on the streets and incessant streams of competing propaganda.
There is another annoyance -- the risk of valuable cattle being houghed or otherwise mutilated; a risk calling for incessant watchfulness. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
In order to confront Iran, Reagan and Bush administrations had incessantly backed Saddam Hussein regardless of his suppressing the Kurd and developing NBC weapons.
The noise was incessant throughout the night. Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet
He has red hair, shouts incessantly and moves as though a colony of ants has invaded his tracksuit trousers.
He called to mind the peculiarities of the "tui" of the natives, sometimes called the mockingbird from its incessant chuckle, and sometimes "the parson," in allusion to the white cravat it wears over its black, cassock-like plumage. In Search of the Castaways
The very first melodramas were characterised by incessant music - ‘melos’ in Greek - that accompanied the action, and so it is here.
Freshly chiseled ornaments stand proudly next to the corroded precursors that served as models, testimony to the endless repair, the incessant renewal of the church.
We find this fact embarrassing and we rush to deny its relevance, or we excuse our exclusionist practices by reminding ourselves, incessantly, ‘at least we are not like the Americans.’
But as I was saying, I remember sitting there, playing with his cards and his pennies, Grammy chastising him in the background, so incessant it was subaudible to us as we laughed and ignored her screams of complaint and abuse. Pop Pop
To the delight of late-night television comedians, President George H.W. Bush used to talk incessantly about “prudence,” but in fact the term is a deadly serious watchword for the “realist” school of foreign policy. What Would Wilson Do?
To add to the incessant cacophony of all the usual hucksters and souvenir traders, the pilgrims and the clergy, the temple is also still being built.
Lady Florimel wept incessantly for three days; on the fourth she looked out on the sea and thought it very dreary; on the fifth she found a certain gratification in hearing herself called the marchioness; on the sixth she tried on her mourning, and was pleased; on the seventh she went with the funeral and wept again; on the eighth came Lady Bellair, who on the ninth carried her away. Malcolm
Roman empire! how countless the nations which swarm forth, in mingling and indistinct hordes, constantly changing the geographical limits — incessantly confounding the natural boundaries! The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
My mom too, had experienced days of incessant teasing by unmerciful young friends.
Staggering home under the appalled stares of passers-by, a bloodied Mehmet walks a gauntlet of seething furnaces, grinding pistons and an incessant, infernal hammering.
Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his cognisance papaverous volumes, with which only a super-human endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? so that the goddess is driven, by the necessity of the game, to admit within the circuit of her somnolent sway, a virtue to which she is naturally and peculiarly hostile? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
The pleasure is perverse: the thrill of an incessantly thwarted chase. Times, Sunday Times
We can never thank her sufficiently for cutting out endless pages of songs and recitative by the melancholious old Hermit who, in the original version, was to commence the opera, and wander in and out of it incessantly. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
Audiences have a tough time relating to the unfathomable wealth and incessant boasting of these artists.
If you go around incessantly spreading goodwill, you'll just annoy people.
Once unthinkable, Washington's chatterers now talk of it incessantly.
Sow physalis in heated propagator; plant out shallots; mulch blackcurrants and raspberries; tidy strawberry bed; finish compost trenches on allotment where squash will grow; weed incessantly.
For some weeks past I had been troubled with an incessant sickness at the stomach which would neither take or keep food, and soon after came on an inflammation in the right leg, which completely lamed me for many days. Letter 301
The pull of journalism was incessant, but filial loyalty led him to qualify as a property surveyor.
These sages of finance obviously forget that the incessant need for the almighty dollar usually steps on the toes of morality.
People who have true family values live by them, while deviant phonies incessantly talk about them.
The incessant spread of globalization is killing the very qualities of distinctiveness and diversity of our differing cultures that make this world such a special place to live in.
During her month in the 1950s, Hina had to endure strict discipline, austere meals, outdoor swimming and incessant tests.
If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
The only noise was the incessant ramblings of radio commercials about television holiday specials and must-have gifts.
As a boy, the insides of my arms and the backs of my legs itched ferociously and incessantly.
If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
In the distance, church bells rang out as a team of ringers sought perfection through incessant practise.
This riveting drama speaks to our souls with its incessant probes into the importance of human choice and the degradations brought on by self-destructiveness.
The jukebox ground out an incessant stream of pop music.
A man who has suffered with almost incessant hiccups for five months has appealed for help to find a cure. Times, Sunday Times
Aside their interest in the safety education, which was evident in the large turn-out, they were eager to have answers to issues that bother on their means of livelihood and what they described as incessant harassment from security agencies. Undefined
His natural wanderlust is fueled by a vain search for lasting good health and he travels incessantly through Europe, the United States and the South Pacific.
We lay up in the stuffy, sweltering heat of the wood all afternoon, listening to the incessant thunder of the cannonading; one consolation was the regular crash of the artillery salvoes, which indicated that Wheeler's gunners were making good practice, and must still be well stocked with powder and shot. Fiancée
singularity university is a google-backed school by and for the smartest people on earth who incessantly think about how to inter-disciplinarily solve humanity's largest challenges through giant leaps in technology. unfortunately, i can't prove it but this sounds awfully like the kind of organization that brought john connor back from the future to kill his mother, or a robot, or something. after all, you can't spell The apartment broadcast
Dido talked incessantly about herself and all I had to do, as I listened to the catalogue of her infirmities, was to exude sympathy. ULTIMATE PRIZES
One of the noisome results of such compartmentalization is that relationship "experts" warn us incessantly, "If you have to talk, see a therapist. Mr. Goodbar Redux
Debra White Hayes couldn't sleep through the noise, which she described as incessant droning "like monsters. Good Vibrations? A California Road
Re: Hence, the benefits of a secular society, where we can incessantly dick with the intersection between the “nihilistic, unnatural, [and] antihuman” and the City of God, the better to make life in the here and now not suck. Matthew Yglesias » Iceland Bans Strip Clubs
In parts of the rainforest as yet untouched by the incessant search for oil, the song of rare birds and the screeching of monkeys fill the air. Times, Sunday Times
When we have gone to sleep with a maddening toothache and are conscious of it only as a little girl whom we attempt, time after time, to pull out of the water, or as a line of Molière which we repeat incessantly to ourselves, it is a great relief to wake up, so that our intelligence can disentangle the idea of toothache from any artificial semblance of heroism or rhythmic cadence. Swann's Way
Once again, I leave my gentle readers to draw their own conclusions about this hateful, evil nation and its unpleasant denizens, with their incessant foul language and their flip-top heads.
Given the horrendous conditions and despite the incessant rain the sides served an entertaining game of football.
It is a lively sound, a busy tinkling, the incessant brattling and from time to time rushing, crashing sound of this falling ice, and trees suddenly erecting themselves when relieved of their loads.
Livestock poaching during the incessant wet weather and machinery operations on soft ground has done enormous damage to grass swards.
He had brilliant darting eyes and talked incessantly. The Crossing-Place
A true sense of proportion requires us not to burden our work with the incessant enumeration of details of secondary importance.
He incessantly joshes his son, once slugs him in the face with a vase, cracks terrible jokes, struts around in a tweed jacket, and generally makes a virtue out of insouciance and brio.
He incessantly denounced the moral depravity of leading politicians.
Noise pollution is insidious says actor Randy Hughson, who brings his portrayal of Doyle, a man buffeted by incessant noise, to the Magnetic North Festival.
Fueled by my sister's incessant shopping, every surface sags under the weight of knick-knacks and geegaws.
When I saw the headline on this post, I thought you were going to complain about the loud, incessant profanities from the players, which is what sticks in my mind from watching the Bulls. Billings Bull*!@&
They've dramatically outspent us with incessant fear-mongering.
She had scarcely completed these arrangements to her entire satisfaction, when the friend arrived with a whity – brown parcel — flat and three – cornered — containing sundry small adornments which were to be put on upstairs, and which the friend put on, talking incessantly. Nicholas Nickleby
But it's also a rustic idyll - an extensively renovated old style estate cottage in the middle of a copse of tall tree where rooks caw incessantly in the Spring sunshine.
In Chiapas, we do not need what you refer to as "nob type insulation" as what we use there for insulation is three foot thick adobe walls that take up more space than your entire living room in that tarpaper shack of yours in Crapola but we must admit that we need propane heaters as we lack your incessant hot air bloviating forth to heat our maison you Alberta clodhopper. About Ajijic, food, music, people, and the "social life"
Is there anything positive to be taken at all from the incessant quest by games designers to create the perfect virtual woman?
A certain number of "papist" priests took the oath, and the "papist" religion was thus established here and there, though it continued to be disturbed by the incessant arbitrary acts of interference on the part of the administrative staff of the Directory, who by individual warrants deported priests charged with inciting to disturbance. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
The fear of public places and buses, the recurring nightmares and bed-wetting, the incessant crying for no apparent reason, the inability to function normally anymore.
Smith seemed to be in the highest spirits, talking incessantly, describing his sudden descent on Firtop Farm and his interview with the farmer so racily that his mother laughed gently, and even Kate, for all her anxiety, smiled. Round the World in Seven Days
Keols, invisible in the forest canopy, were calling to each other in their incessant woody voices.
This incessant probing puts you in a reflective mood. The Sun
The phone calls, the forms, the follow-up with consultants, the incessant paging… All for patients that I rarely even see.
Once in Italy, he drew incessantly, copying antique statuary as well as more recent work by Michelangelo and Raphael.
She'd kept up an almost incessant stream of chatter and commentary during the whole of the train ride from London, and then in the taxi to the dock.
Some people find incessant talking mildly annoying.
Out on the stoop a bunch of men were sitting hunched over their six packs and a dog was incessantly barking.
He was incessantly acquisitive, and by the early twentieth century, Mellon had interests not only in coal, steel, and railroads but also in the new industries of aluminum (he owned Alcoa), chemicals (he owned Koppers and Carborundum), and petroleum (he owned Gulf Oil). The Dragon’s Trail
Incessant and intrusive editing, numerous jump- and cross-cuts and confounding time shifts, work to disorient the viewer.
Although the young people ragged and tangoed incessantly, she rarely danced, and then it was with the young men. CHAPTER XIX
The character's incessant attempts to force food (or more often tea) on her charges is a running joke throughout the series. Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2)
The rain was beating down incessantly on the tin roof.
It was the height of the monsoon season, and the incessant rains gave Wallace, who was sojourning in Brooke's riverfront villa, little else to do but ‘ponder over the problem which was rarely absent front my thoughts.’
I must shower first, and then I shall clip my toenails (I have a hypochondriac's fear of ingrown toenails, so I manicure my feet incessantly).
His non-stop soundtrack of incessantly ringing bells and gongs is itself enough to drive anyone batty.
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
I gratefully let my smile fade as I tried to block out their incessant chatter.
But it was another member of the US delegation who may have been most perturbed by the incessant backroom chatter about supposed bribes and payoffs. Times, Sunday Times
When a dog gets and starts to snap at you incessantly, you can shoot it.
The pound of the horse's feet was lost in the titanic bombilation of the elements -- the incessant crash and rumble of thunder and the ever increasing roar of rushing waters. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country
They forgot that the charge of "abolitionism," which was incessantly hurled at the Republican party, was thus by no means wanting in essential truth, and that when the slaveholders were vanquished in the election of Mr. Lincoln, their appeal from the ballot to the bullet was the logical result of their insane devotion to slavery, and their conviction that nothing could save it but the dismemberment of the Republic. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872
He shrugs off the incessant scrutiny, and says: ‘Not me, guv.’
The jukebox ground out an incessant stream of pop music.
People who have true family values live by them, while deviant phonies incessantly talk about them.
Which words being ended, she withdrew her selfe towards the middest of the Tarras, despairing of escaping (with life) from the heates violence; and not once onely, but infinite times beside (among her other grievous extreamities) she was ready to dye with drought, bemoaning incessantly her dolorous condition. The Decameron
He expends all his energies reacting to the incessant, queasy lurch of the metallic object confining his limbs.
They've left her all alone to deal with minging mother Lyn and her incessant whining about being a lonely geriatric single mother of a toddler.
On bad days I expect heaps of sympathy and whinge incessantly in the vain hope that it will be forthcoming.
The red carpet had been treated with some flame retardant chemical, and the incessant rain caused it to foam.
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
It cost all of two dirhams to buy and I can still remember trying to read it incessantly while my dad dragged me from fish booth to fish booth.
A homeless man refuses to walk or use the lavatory, and swears incessantly at the staff. Times, Sunday Times
Agents surround promising youngsters and talk incessantly about fame and fortune. Times, Sunday Times
Often part of a bird's incessant cleaning routine is the straightening of wing primaries, which seems to help reattatch the barbicels so the wings remain fully functional.
The married couple argued incessantly and finally decided to separate because they are incompatible.
On the pitch two gallant teams went at it hammer and tongs while off it, their passionate supporters kept up an incessant cacophony, which will not, I'll warrant, be equalled at the county final.
Their incessant nagging is getting to Jim … getting to him so much he begins acting and gesturing … like … Michael. The Office: Hey, Michael. I Mean Jim. | Best Week Ever
He had brilliant darting eyes and talked incessantly. The Crossing-Place
Eventually, when I stepped into the second room, I realised that four table-top game stations were pumping incessant shots into the front room, where they became disembodied echoes.
And we encounter masses of arguments and counterarguments spread over incessant debates and disputations.
The combination of bitter cold and incessant rain was guaranteed to cool his temper.
The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. Les Miserables
It is as much a fixture as the strawberries, cream and incessant rain. Times, Sunday Times
The crowd gasped in surprise, but soon resumed their incessant cheering.
He nodded to himself incessantly as if his spinal column had been magically replaced with a spring.
When a dog gets old and starts to snap at you incessantly, you can shoot it.
The noise was incessant throughout the night. Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet
The back-passage trombonist combined with the diesel droner almost drown out the incessant beeping from the IV machines announcing their various problems, which can be due to a lack of fluids but sometimes it seems, they're just suffering plain boredom like their patients. CRN Australia - News -
In any case he owed his musical development mainly to his own incessant study of classical and contemporary composers, such as Frescobaldi (_c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
In short, success is forged by the incessant sustainable growth of the company's resources.
Emmy had even inveigled him to resume his incessant smoking once more.
Grant me melody, O my God, to hymn and recite and honour the exploits of Thy passion -- endurer and martyr, that I may harmoniously laud the great in suffering (mentioned by name), who ever was the vanquisher of passions, great in piety and is now shining forth in the midst of the choir of martyrs, with whom and a multitude of angels, he doth incessantly hymn The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
Another instance of this association between the motions of the stomach and heart is evinced by the exhibition of an over dose of foxglove, which induces an incessant vomiting, which is attended with very slow, and sometimes intermitting pulse. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Mining operations were being carried on with the greatest activity; coal was being piled incessantly into the trucks, which went in hundreds to empty themselves into the corves at the bottom of the shaft. The Underground City
Was it her simper, or her settled indifference to ideas, or the gaudy ring she wore on her right forefinger and twisted incessantly?
Inside purple and green mist swirled around incessantly in pinwheels.
As far as I can tell, the most likely consequence of the incessant droning that taxes are bad, now that the primary goal of destroying public services while reducing the tax burden on the already prosperous is close to attainment, is that all Americans will adopt the Greek attitude towards taxes. The Volokh Conspiracy » California’s Woes and Prop 13
Whernside House and Settle and the aerograph apparatus at the observatory were working almost incessantly till dawn, sending and receiving messages between this remote moorland district and London and the seat of war, as well as Bolton and Pittsburg. The World Peril of 1910
So unfolds Streets of Blood, an appropriately titled splatter flick featuring both incessant action and a very complicated, multi-layered mystery which I dare not spoil by revealing any further details. Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com
From below comes the incessant growl of heavy lorries, straining to race their precious loads out of the valley. Times, Sunday Times
All the while, four-year-old Matthew was bouncing on the couch, furtively strumming the guitar he wasn't supposed to touch and talking incessantly.
The same goes for the incessant questions about being passed the sonic screwdriver by the most popular Doctor yet. Times, Sunday Times
Too many foreign residents are finding that paradise has a high price and that incessant bumbledom is putting a damper on enjoying their retirement.
Their incessant droppings vexed golfers and "fowled" water hazards, and he couldn't get rid of them. Twenty Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of
Having, for fifteen years," says the latter author, "incessantly studied the habits of lignivorous insects in one of the best wooded regions of The Earth as Modified by Human Action
The ground which he had passed over was a field covered with clumps of low trees; it was easy to see by its disc-like shape that it had been formed by successive alluvia, at the expense of the other shore, which had been incessantly worn away by the stream. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The noise is incessant and editors slap protégés into line: 'You have three minutes for your news flash. Times, Sunday Times
Our planet is incessantly bombarded with a rain of cosmic rays, charged stable particles, such as protons and electrons.
I stopped the incessant shrieking and put the phone to my ear.
But as Nietzsche discovered, incessant philosophical thought can also damage one's marbles.
Did they complain incessantly about it? Computing
Then he served an apprenticeship to a japanner, and married very early on incredibly small earnings, which, however, he increased by his rapidity in work and his incessant industry. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
I love it,, we need to make fun of this commie dirtbag more often,, the "downlow" Obama needs to become the first thing the average person thinks about when he puts his face on our TV sets just as DU smeared Bush incessantly. Latest Articles
Miss Augusta had with the overseer on religion, and many other subjects; of one jackeroo who gabbed never-endingly about his great relations at home; another who incessantly clattered about spurs, whips, horses, and sport; and the third one -- Joe Archer -- who talked literature and trash with me. My Brilliant Career
The film is entirely dependent on pages of dialogue and long scenes filled with incessantly talking heads. Times, Sunday Times
This incessant probing puts you in a reflective mood. The Sun
Thriving on the pressure of incessant deadlines, he could always be counted on to produce essays and exhibition reviews that shimmer with verbal felicities enough to make them worth reading for their own, literary sake.
Today's oceans and continents are thus transitory features produced by incessant geotectonic processes that are energized by three sources of the earth's heat: energy conducted through the lithosphere from the underlying hot mantle, radiogenic decay of heat-producing crustal elements, and convective transport by magmas and fluids during orogenic events. Global material cycles
Spanish princes, Abderamus was obliged to keep numerous armies incessantly on foot, to support a naval force, frequently to hire stipendiaries from Africa, and to fortify and preserve in a state of defence the ever-endangered fortresses on his frontiers, it is hardly possible to comprehend how his revenues sufficed for the supply of such immense and varied demands. History of the Moors of Spain
When Andrée sharply struck a solemn note she could not prevent the Perigordian string of her vocal instrument from giving back a resonant sound quite in harmony, moreover, with the Meridional purity of her features; while to the incessant pranks of Rosemonde the substance of her North-Country face and voice responded, whatever her mood at the time, in the accent of their province. Within a Budding Grove
Fueled by my sister's incessant shopping, every surface sags under the weight of knick-knacks and geegaws.
I follow her down the staircase into the garden for the tulsi pooja, incessantly ringing the bell in my hand.
The great difficulty to be contended against in the harbour is the shallowness of the water, except in certain places, and in these the ships are wedged together, with scarcely room to swing, and with the rush of the tide out from the Sound, or in from the ocean, assisted by incessant gales of wind, there is hardly a minute of the day that some vessel does not come to grief. The Civil War in America
It must surely be some kind of guard to talk so incessantly without pause or prompting?
The maintenance of the royal guard and of the vast national police of the hermandad, the incessant military operations of the late campaign, together with the equipment of a navy, not merely for war, but for maritime discovery, were so many copious drains of the exchequer. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
She toyed with them incessantly as she typed up the daily status and safety reports.
Tomorrow, the endless movement and incessant noise of home beckons.
Backed by an incessant guitar riff which explodes into a rock stomp. The Sun
After about half an hour of incessant prattle, an elderly man rose shakily from his seat and, with all his strength, slammed shut the door leading to vestibule.
The self's figuration as a trajectory that collapses or can't move ahead finds its formal parallel in Jarnot's insistent, incessant use of repetition, anaphora, litany, and incantation.
A major step towards ecological sustainability is to stop our incessant shopping.
In the middle of an incessant thunderstorm, with hailstones making vision almost impossible, feeling cold and hungry, 50 miles from home, the enormity of what I was letting myself in for began to sink in.
Information abounds - piste maps are dispensed beside lift queues, weather forecasts are posted everywhere and broadcast incessantly.
Also, they were not prepared enough for the incessant rains that lashed the city the past few days.
The incessant pricklings with which we were harassed, sufficiently indicated that our attire was peopled with the filthy vermin to which the Chinese and The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries

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