How to Use discontinuity in a Sentence

discontinuity

noun
  • There is a sense of discontinuity between the book's chapters.
  • Dystopic discontinuity, though, turns out not to be her theme at all.
    — Ruth Franklin, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2020
  • That has led to a false discontinuity in the broader view of black freedom struggles.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Again, with resilience, there is no room for discontinuity in the new lifestyle module.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Will the next 24 months create a discontinuity compared to the past year?
    — Bernard Fraenkel, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • There is a yawning discontinuity between zero size and any finite object.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2020
  • At this degree of sensitivity, fingertips can find discontinuities the mind may not be able to brook.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Is there any discontinuity between being deeply religious in a place like Harvard?
    — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Jiménez’s set was unique in its discontinuity and its courage to abandon preceding ideas and push into new sonic territory.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • In the experiment called a discontinuity condition, dog owners first showed the dogs the toys and then put the objects inside of a bucket.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This discontinuity, called the Moho, is now recognized as the line between Earth's crust and its mantle.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
  • This discontinuity, called the Moho, is now recognized as the line between Earth’s crust and its mantle.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
  • Poor quality of care, care discontinuity and knowledge gaps are the most frequent factors in preventable maternal deaths.
    — Yenupini Joyce Adams, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
  • The name was a play on the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho, which defines the boundary between the crust and mantle.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • If our civilization suffers some kind of severe discontinuity, future archaeologists may need to dig this place up to get a hint as to how things went so wrong.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • There is a discontinuity with the governance and (CONI) gave them a full mandate.
    — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Pits, holes, ditches and local cavities which also create discontinuities in a walking path.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Aug. 2016
  • Even more so than statistical models and projections, fossils and discontinuities in ancient rock layers tell us a gripping tale of what lies ahead of us.
    — Manu Saadia, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Where the VisEra device does fall short is in its response to light that comes in at an angle because of discontinuities in the metasurface.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
  • For all its jangly discontinuities, the current work (all untitled) feels newly grounded.
    — Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But there is no sense of discontinuity in this juxtaposition of the personal and professional.
    — Langdon Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Both Strickland and his band need to tour separately throughout the year to maximize revenue, and that discontinuity isn’t ideal.
    — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The researchers were trying to test a concept known as temporal discontinuity, in which a brief amount of time passes between the introduction of an item and the assignment of its name.
    — New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Josefowicz, in her decathlon of a performance, brought Ligeti’s savage discontinuities to the surface.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • This trait formed what Ella and I came to call a telescoping process, with parts stretching back across time, marking the discontinuity between past and present, and then collapsing it.
    — Rebecca J. Lester, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • This trait formed what Ella and I came to call a telescoping process, with parts stretching back across time, marking the discontinuity between past and present, and then collapsing it.
    — Rebecca J. Lester, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • The author elects to tell the story in first person present tense, a choice that adds a choppy, staccato feel to things and also underlines some of the narrative discontinuities that creep into the text along the way.
    — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • The author elects to tell the story in first person present tense, a choice that adds a choppy, staccato feel to things and also underlines some of the narrative discontinuities that creep into the text along the way.
    — Eli Gottlieb, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • The author elects to tell the story in first person present tense, a choice that adds a choppy, staccato feel to things and also underlines some of the narrative discontinuities that creep into the text along the way.
    — Eli Gottlieb, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
  • The tapping may provide information about structural discontinuities, density changes or the presence of tunnels themselves, even when those tunnels are no longer empty.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026

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