Words run forwards or backwards, in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction, but always in a straight, unbroken line.

Cries for mercy unfolded with a long, undulating and unbroken line, imperceptibly strengthening from within.

Why not spend a bit on a tall tree, too, to rise above that unbroken line.

The language and script of these brief ritual documents are established as the fountainhead for an unbroken line of development over the following three millennia, even to the present.

You don't need to vex yourself deciding what to wear on the top half, and the unbroken line of the fabric compensates for the broken line of the hem.

So how should parents behave in the event that the rest of their lives together don't constitute an unbroken run of partnership bliss?

Cheerfully vain and unabashedly aware of his unbroken run of good fortune, he openly risked derision.

It has not been an unbroken run of success.

Dividends have increased in an unbroken run for the past 24 years, and the group aims to cover the payment at 2.5 times earnings throughout its expansion.

This brings to an end a 152-event unbroken run of the pair competing together, over 11 years since 1999.

We are the only country with a 1,000-year unbroken tradition of cathedral choir schools.

It's become an unbroken tradition of war against complacency.

They also indicate an unbroken tradition of serving the country's industrial and mining sectors.

Silversmithing and goldsmithing, by contrast, have an unbroken tradition going back many millennia.

He also emphasised the importance of a long unbroken tradition and continuity in the training of male dancers.