Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word continent-sized.
Examples
-
It is time for the [350M] Three-Hundred – Fifty Million continent-sized Empire to become a continent of separate Republics, the present system ill suits the needs of the entire nation.
-
By evening, with nearly 100 percent of the votes counted in this continent-sized country, it looked like she had a solid lead, 47 percent of the vote.
-
As Ryan Avent suggests, America almost certainly derives advantages from being a much more integrated continent-sized economy than the one they have in Europe.
Matthew Yglesias » The Euro and Optimal Currency Area Theory 2010
-
By evening, with nearly 100 percent of the votes counted in this continent-sized country, it looked like she had a solid lead, 47 percent of the vote.
-
The oil spill in the Gulf, the devastation of our rain forests, depletion of our fisheries, uncounted numbers of extinct species, desertification of once arable land, toxic pollution and continent-sized mountains of garbage are signs that we're living on borrowed time.
-
The dirty little secret of comparisons across the Atlantic is that they juxtapose a continent-sized behemoth with a series of small nations, some of which are downright dollhouse in magnitude.
Peter Baldwin: Why We Have Culture Wars and the Europeans (Apparently) Do Not Peter Baldwin 2010
-
We are told that scientists have discovered that there are vast areas of the ocean swarming with small plastic particles, a continent-sized bowl of plastic soup.
-
That is one of the burdens of being a large, continent-sized democracy: the lunatic fringes are kookier, their clashes more heated and their forum that of the nation as a whole.
Peter Baldwin: Why We Have Culture Wars and the Europeans (Apparently) Do Not Peter Baldwin 2010
-
Their idea is to filter out plastic from the surface waters of a continent-sized area of the North Pacific otherwise known as the Great Garbage Patch, or the Plastic Vortex, or the Pacific Plastic Gyre, etc.
-
The oil spill in the Gulf, the devastation of our rain forests, depletion of our fisheries, uncounted numbers of extinct species, desertification of once arable land, toxic pollution and continent-sized mountains of garbage are signs that we're living on borrowed time.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.