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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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Found in 8 published word lists
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- Magoosh GRE 1000Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
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