constant

In a sentence

Six example sentences with constant, each labelled with its topic.

• The novel's hero endures the constant drip of a leaking roof, a sound that never stops through all four hundred pages.

  Literature

• For three centuries the lighthouse keepers kept a constant flame, never letting it go out on a single night.

  History

• The drummer holds a constant tempo through the whole set, so the band never speeds up when the crowd does.

  Music

• The incubator holds a constant temperature of thirty-seven degrees, and an alarm sounds if it drifts half a degree.

  Science

• The press applied constant pressure for forty minutes, and the visiting guards were exhausted by the fourth quarter.

  Basketball

• The phone's constant notifications broke her concentration every few minutes until she turned the whole panel off.

  Technology

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• accompanying
• defining
• transformed
• transmission
• concentrated
• filing
• abandonment
• index
• transmit
• explicitly
• coordinated
• undertaking