CONSTANT in a Sentence

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279 example sentences for CONSTANT, such as:

1. She was in constant physical pain.
2. A constant guest is never welcome.
3. The constant pain made her life intolerable.
4. Her mind was in a state of constant turmoil.
5. Even great musicians require constant practice.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSTANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
constant
 a.  invariable or repeating; continually occurring; persistent
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Between the hounds and the horses and the twins there was a kinship deeper than that of their constant companionship.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  But, somehow, the cotton always failed, and the garden, due to Mrs. Slattery's constant childbearing, seldom furnished enough to feed her flock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities that would make her truly desirable as a wife.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  To all these arguments, Scarlett smiled but said nothing, unwilling to commit herself before learning how she would like Atlanta and constant association with her in-laws.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Scarlett was as anxious as her mother to have Wade out of Atlanta, not only for the child's safety, but because his constant fear irritated her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  They swarmed on Melanie despite the fan Scarlett kept in constant motion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  Anything was better than the constant danger of raids from both armies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  Hunger and hard labor, fear and constant strain, the terrors of war and the terrors of Reconstruction had taken away all warmth and youth and softness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  Her conduct was a constant embarrassment to him but he reckoned he could endure it for a while longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  They didn't like them, didn't trust them, didn't understand them, and yet their constant cry was that Southerners didn't know how to get along with them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  War and constant pain and hard work had been powerless against their sweet tranquillity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  Now Dilcey occupied one, and the other two were in constant use by a stream of miserable and ragged transients.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  She knew he was avoiding her, knew that her constant presence in his house, at Melanie's inescapable invitations, was a torment to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
14  I'm too old to shoulder the burden of constant lies that go with living in polite disillusionment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
15  Though the town seemed to Carol to change no more than the surrounding fields, there was a constant shifting, these three years.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
16  He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
17  It is important to maintain a constant temperature inside the greenhouse.
18  Every member of the organization should be constant to its regulations.
19  During our Mission District store days, we lived in a constant state of fear.
20  A constant guest is never welcome.
21  He laboured under the constant misapprehension that nobody liked him.
22  The constant pain made her life intolerable.
23  She was in constant physical pain.
24  John received constant physical and psychological abuse from his father.
25  Even great musicians require constant practice.
26  The constant should be adjusted to reflect fairly the nature of the actual work involved.
27  The constant repetition of violence has blunted the human response to it.
28  His wife was a source of constant support during the lean years.
29  Traffic noise is a source of constant irritation.
30  Her mind was in a state of constant turmoil.