How to use sequel in a sentence

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• I binge-played the sequel last month and now I despise it so much.From the entry binge-play
• The lightning spell was originally pretty powerful, but in the sequel they nerfed it so it became completely useless.From the entry nerf
• That movie was absolute cinema! I'm dying for a sequel.From the entry absolute cinema
• They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet!From the entry sweet
• The film sequel was forgettably samey.From the entry forgettably
• If sequels are de rigueur in the so-called disruptive world of technology, this one is particularly bold.2025 May 10, Rob Copeland, “Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry de rigueur
• This sequel was a high-wire act, but Boyle has made it to the other side.2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in The Guardian. From the entry pessimism
• Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues.2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry acclimated
• We might also consider adaptation alongside the processes of publishing sequels, prequels and coquels, and fan fiction.2008, Rachel Malik, “Horizons of the Publishable: Publishing in/as Literary Studies”, in ELH, volume 75, number 3, →JSTOR, page 727. From the entry coquel
• Remakes, re-dos, sequels, prequels, and postquels are all the rage in films, TV, and on the stage.2001, Charles Marowitz, Stage Dust: A Critic's Cultural Scrapbook from the 1990s, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry reformulate
• Millipede, the sequel to Centipede, takes the Freudian original and ramps up the challenge.2000 October, Steve Bauman, “Atari Arcade Hits Volume II”, in Steve Bauman, editor, Computer Games Magazine, number 119, Richmond, Vt.…. From the entry sometimes a cigar is a cigar
• I wish I could say this was the best sequel in the world.1999, Daxx, “Moto Racer 2 (c) EA / Delphins Software”, in GameOver, archived from the original on 23 Feb 1999; quoted in Brian Warming…. From the entry deprove
• In the two distant sequels, the poet captures the exhilaration of the flight of the bird.1981, Sélections Lardanchet (contributor), Bulletin des Lettres, page 66. From the entry distant sequel
• 'Prequels' are sequels that relate the story that preceded the original film.1980, Patrick Robertson, Movie Facts and Feats: A Guinness Record Book, New York: Sterling Publishing, page 43. From the entry prequel
• The dramatic sequel of these verses show that the woman was a necromanceress.1951, H[enry] St J[ohn] Hart, A Foreword to the Old Testament: An Essay of Elementary Introduction, Neww York, N.Y.: Oxford University…. From the entry necromanceress
• The political sequel to Separatism is the neutral state presiding over a multisectarian society.1944, Ralph Barton Perry, Puritanism and Democracy, Vanguard Press, page 346. From the entry multisectarian
• That visual wonder elevated the first Zootopia, but the X-factor is gone in the sequel; everything looks brighter, flatter, and cheaper.2025 November 25, Caroline Siede, “Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot”, in AV Club. From the entry x-factor
• I get just as sick as everyone else when I see new remakes, reboots, sequels, sequels and even squeakquels.2023 April 11, Adam Beam, “Does Hollywood really have an originality problem?”, in The Slate, volume 66, number 16, page B1. From the entry squeakquel
• If Dune is a hit, incidentally, then we are certain to get a sequel; this movie only covers half the story.2021 October 22, Brian Viner, “An epic rises from the SANDS”, in Daily Mail. From the entry Chalamaniac
• The sequel checks in with the unmoored but largely lovable characters from the first movie as they face middle age.2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in New York Times. From the entry middle age
• The blue-collar, vulnerable McClane of Die Hard wouldn’t even recognize the bulletproof, catchphrase-spouting superhero he’s become in the sequels.2013 February 14, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: A Good Day To Die Hard”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2013. From the entry blue-collar
• The Mummy belongs in a chapter devoted to one-shots as its progeny are different breeds rather than direct sequels.2013, B. Forshaw, British Gothic Cinema, →ISBN. From the entry one-shot
• It's official: Dakota Fanning will star in "New Moon," the sequel to the vamptastic “Twilght,” according to people.com.2009 March 9, “Red Hot”, in RedEye Chicago, page 40. From the entry vamptastic
• As sidekick Brenda, Regina Hall outsassed Death in Scary Movie and all its spoofy sequels, including the just out fourth installment.Out, May 2006 page 44. From the entry spoofy
• See also METROPOLIS, to which Fumoon is a distant sequel.2001, Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy, The Anime Encyclopedia, A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, page 210. From the entry distant sequel
• This heterogeneous group has been expanded to embrace diseases unrelated to malaria, diseases complicating malaria, and symptoms and sequelæ of malaria.1909, William Heiskell Deaderick, A Practical Study of Malaria, page 232. From the entry complicate
• The sequel: the first boy who forced Father Hunter into the dreaded necessity of ordering "tolleys" was sent up for three.1907, The Messenger, page 147. From the entry tolley
• The Long Game, which is the sequel to Heated Rivalry and continues the love story of Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, a.k.a.2026 January 22, Laura Wheatman Hill, “Let’s Read Into Heated Rivalry’s Next Moves”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2026. From the entry Hollanov
• A recent New York Times headline about warcore, the gorier sequel to gorpcore, squealed: “If you can get killed doing it, fashion wants it”.2019 October 30, Priya Elan, “Gorpcore: why people who rarely go outside are wearing hiking gear”, in The Guardian. From the entry gorpcore
• It was a moment of bathos and anticlimax; a poor sequel to my smoke-ringed, vinous reverie on American grandeur the previous night.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN; republished London: Atlantic Books, 2011, →ISBN, page 254. From the entry vinous
• Another sequel, Pac-Land, transported the adventurous wedge into a sidescrolling world where he had to navigate a series of platforms and obstacles.2008, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca, Understanding video games: the essential introduction, page 63. From the entry sidescrolling
• And that’s just it—after two years, Counter-Strikers expected that a sequel would offer new weaponry and equipment, and, above all, an engaging single-player game.2004 March, Four-Eyed Dragon, “Counter-Strike: Condition Zero”, in GamePro, number 186, page 68. From the entry Counter-Striker
• Not only do Austenians buy and read these books, but they maintain a lively conversation, in person and online, about sequels, continuations, adaptations, and completions.2003, Marjorie Garber, Quotation Marks, Routledge, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry Austenian
• In the not too distant future, I envision a world not unlike the movie Escape from New York and it's oh-so-crapperific sequel, Escape from L.A.2000 March 2, Clopin DeLenuit, “Sacrificing Liberty for Safety. Was: School Shooting Tragedy.”, in alt.fairs.renaissance (Usenet). From the entry oh-so
• A sequel of this magnitude has the ability to reach higher, though, with more creative worldbuilding balancing out the dime-a-dozen pop culture references and cheap gags.2025 November 25, Caroline Siede, “Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot”, in AV Club. From the entry pop culture
• It takes 25 minutes for Bugs Bunny to tunnel his way into that sequel, becoming the first Looney Tune to appear in this supposed Looney Tunes movie.2021 July 14, A. A. Dowd, “Space Jam: A New Legacy is one big, witless commercial for Warner Bros. properties”, in The A.V. Club. From the entry take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
• The sequel to the surprise hit film about vampires and werewolves brings back both unlikely action hero Kate Beckinsale, a vampire, and her wolvish paramour (Scott Speedman).2006 February 9, Daily Herald, volume 83, number 193, page 11, column 4. From the entry wolvish
• Because Big Mutha Truckers wasn’t a delicious enough pun, the subtle wordmasters at Eutechnyx thought to add an even more savory subtitle for the sequel to their brick-driving simulation.2005 October, Play, page 070. From the entry wordmaster
• That was two years ago, and Patricia MacLachlan, the author of the children's book from which the TV Sarah derived, has been prevailed upon to screenwrite a sequel.1993, John Leonard, New York Magazine, page 64. From the entry screenwrite

Meaning of sequel

1. noun The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
2. noun A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.
3. noun Synonym of postquel; a narrative work that follows-on and is set after an prior existing work.

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Questions about sequel in a sentence

How do you use sequel in a sentence?

Sequel is used as a noun. For example: “I binge-played the sequel last month and now I despise it so much.”

What is a short sentence with sequel?

“The film sequel was forgettably samey.”

What does sequel mean?

Sequel means the events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.