Continued
Continued adjective - Going on and on without any interruptions.
Retreated
Both words in one sentence
- While psychedelic-rock retreated from the spotlight after the end of The '60s, it mutated and continued to evolve and thus never really became a Dead Horse Genre.
Source: Psychedelic Rock -
With the arrival of people and their permanent settlements, the Tuatha Dé Danann continued to muck about in the lives of people, but retreated to the Otherworld, their home world, a world still reachable through places such as fairy forts or fairy burrows.
Source: Myth / Celtic Mythology -
In order to avoid extinction, humanity retreated to heavily-fortified cities, living under the protection and guidance of the Church; meanwhile, the war against the vampires continued without end, eventually reducing much of the world to a blighted, radioactive wasteland.
Source: Film / Priest (2011)
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