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adjective

incessant

uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

In a sentence

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

  • The drummer keeps an incessant sixteenth note pulse under the whole album, and by track eight it becomes hypnotic.

    Music

  • Our hostel sat above a highway, and the incessant traffic made sleep impossible until we moved rooms on Thursday.

    Travel

  • Patients describe the ringing as incessant, present at breakfast and still there when they finally fall asleep at midnight.

    Medicine

  • The incessant notifications from the group chat drained the battery by lunch and everyone's patience by noon.

    Technology

  • The incessant chatter from the visiting bench went on for forty minutes, and the referee finally issued a warning.

    Basketball

  • The incessant rain of that spring turned the lowland fields into shallow lakes before the seed was even in.

    Environment

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