Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: continents
IPA transcription: [k'ɑntənənts]
Pronunciations of continents
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Usage examples
  • New continents are about to be opened.
  • "The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men!"
  • It is a fact well known that continents have periods of elevation and depression.
  • These relatively small areas of ocean follow the general lines of the continents of the outer world.
  • They were able, after some hours, to make out the outlines of what had once been continents, to see the shadows in valleys which had once held the oceans of Earth....
  • She had all her mother's gifts, deepened by her inheritance of Morgan intensity and sincerity ... much, too, of the Morgan firmness of will. When Joscelyn Morgan was twenty-two she was famous over two continents.
  • But it is impossible that the Quichuas and Aimaras could have passed across the wide Atlantic to Europe if there had been no stepping-stone in the shape of Atlantis with its bridge-like ridges connecting the two continents.
  • A recent book by one of the most learned advocates of this hypothesis calls for at least ten such land bridges between South America and all the other continents, present and past, of the world since a period geologically not very remote.
  • The only two other continents where such work, of like volume and value, remains to be done are Africa and Asia; and neither Africa nor Asia offers a more inviting field for the best kind of field worker in geographical exploration and in zoological, geological, and paleontological investigation.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cat, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Disability, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Mu (lost continent), License CC BY-SA 4.0