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• The question of the succession to a throne needs to be settled.From the entry settle
• Several reflected shocks enter the bomb core in rapid succession, each helping to compress it to its maximum density.From the entry shock
• After two reraises in quick succession, John realised his best option for this poker hand was probably a fold.From the entry fold
• Hume cashed out the concept of causation into such experiential terms as spatiotemporal contiguity, temporal succession, and constant conjunction.From the entry cash out
• His company has done business under a succession of dbas because he can't settle on a good name.From the entry dba
• Many personal unions were ended by differences in the monarchies' rules of dynastic succession, while disputes thereabout lead to dynastic wars.From the entry personal union
• They scored two goals in quick succession.From the entry in quick succession
• The home team appeared to have the advantage throughout the game, and finally capitalized on their opponents' weakness with just two minutes remaining, scoring several points in quick succession.From the entry capitalize
• The succession story would get repeated so often that it would turn into Silicon Valley lore.2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN. From the entry lore
• Xerarch succession if started on bare rock, pioneer species is lichens.2021 July 26, Janardhanan.T, Sanjay Sharma, The Big Book Of Biology For NEET Volume 2, Arihant Publications India limited, →ISBN, page 532. From the entry xerarch
• The most obvious recommendations for Joe Biden are a succession of “isn’ts.” He isn’t Donald Trump.2020 August 17, Bret Stephens, “On Being a Biden Conservative”, in The New York Times. From the entry isn't
• I died and warged into my son, and waited around for a succession war in England.2016 January 22, [deleted account], Reddit. From the entry warg
• A kaleidoscope of silver lines drawn in rapid succession carnivalled in a blizzard of raging energy.2007, Jonny Glynn, The Seven Days of Peter Crumb, New York, N.Y.; […]: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry carnival
• A series of beams slit the air in a succession of rapid thwips.2002, Karen Hancock, Arena, page 41. From the entry thwip
• Three of the spy hops were observed in quick succession on one evening at 22.45ish.2002, The Irish Naturalists' Journal, volume 27, page 189. From the entry spy hop
• Compared with geomyids, little is known about the roles of other subterranean rodents in ecological succession.2000, Guy N. Cameron, “Chapter Six: Community Ecology of Subterranean Rodents”, in Eileen A. Lacey, James L. Patton, Guy N. Cameron…. From the entry geomyid
• Space is a series of untouching atoms and time a succession of untouching moments.1988, Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary, Sources of Indian Tradition, page 390. From the entry untouching
• In the Honam region, the succession is through paternal lines based on tan'golp'an (hereditary priestly authority).1988, Kim T'ae-gon, “Regional Characteristics of Korean Shamanism”, in Yi Yu-jin, transl., edited by Richard W.I. Guisso and Chai-shun Yu…. From the entry Honam
• What marks the consecutive is its special morphology and syntax indicating the temporal succession of actions.1986, Dieter Kastovsky, Aleksander Szwedek, Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries, →ISBN. From the entry consecutive
• In several cases, prickly sensations and itching appear in quick succession momentarily.1972, Sobhana (Mahā caññʻ Cha rā toʻ ʼA rhaṅʻ), Practical Insight Meditation, page 31. From the entry in quick succession
• Then, in close succession for a line of this character, come Taipo and Taipo Market Stations.1954 October, 'Boscawen', “The Kowloon-Canton Railway of Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 712. From the entry taipo
• Wham! it roared, not more than twenty feet from me, and then, in quick succession, wham—wham!1950 July 22, Ferguson Findley [pseudonym; Charles Weiser Frey], “Waterfront [Chapter I]”, in Louis Ruppel, editor, Collier’s, volume 136…. From the entry wham
• The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11. From the entry pall
• Her unhappy position is complicated still further when two murders are committed in swift succession.”1947, Dorothy E. Cook, Estelle A. Fidell, editors, Fiction Catalog: 1942-1946 Supplement to the 1941 Edition: A Subject, Author and Title…. From the entry adventureress
• The fat publican served whoever came, muzzy with the succession of pots that stodged away his day.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 159. From the entry muzzy
• Plainly he was prepared to bark out an interminable succession of charges against the Wanderer.1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 3. From the entry bark
• Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.1912, Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, page 420. From the entry goating
• He is calmed and kept in his place by a constant succession of wild philosophies.1908, Gilbert K. Chesterton, “The Eternal Revolution”, in Orthodoxy, New York: John Lane Company, page 198. From the entry Nietzscheite
• Do you liken eternity to an endless succession of days?2024, J. Martin Strangeweather, The Eidetic Afterlife Hypothesis, Santa Ana Literary Association, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry rontosecond
• The remaining terms can be defined either by a chain of kintypes or by a succession of kinterm equivalences.2022, David B. Kronenfeld, Types of Kinship Terminological Systems and How to Analyze Them, page 23. From the entry kinterm
• The dance is performed in succession in a lockoff shot.2016 June 13, Ian Smith, “Annabelle Serpentine Dance is the world’s first hand-tinted motion from 1895, and it’s quite spectacular”, in…. From the entry lockoff
• Similar to the Weichselian glacial setting, the glacial deposits in the Saalian successions were also strongly affected by glaciotectonics.2012, M. Huuse, J. Redfern, D. P. Le Heron, Glaciogenic Reservoirs and Hydrocarbon Systems, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry glaciotectonics
• A teacher may be particularly prone to passive nonlistening when a number of parent-teacher conferences have been held in succession.2000, Milton Seligman, Conducting effective conferences with parents of children with disabilities. From the entry nonlistening
• In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug, their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring.1991, Marcia B. Siegel, Nathaniel Tileston, The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry frug
• I once saw Hassett drop England opening batsman and compulsive hooker, Cyril Washbrook, twice in succession at deep fine leg.1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 32. From the entry hooker
• Before long Abbas Mirza suffered a succession of defeats, which culminated in the capture of Erivan, today capital of Armenia.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 99. From the entry Yerevan
• Inevitably, a jury numbed by a succession of slides premiates some designs because they are "interesting" or "different."1990, Landscape Architecture, volume 80, page 170. From the entry premiate
• Abbās’s achievement made it possible for Ṣafawid rule to survive a succession of largely ineffective shāhs for a further century.1988, David Morgan, Medieval Persia, 1040–1797, Longman Group UK, →ISBN. From the entry shāh
• Our talk exchanges do not normally consist of a succession of disconnected remarks, and would not be rational if they did.1975, H. Paul Grice, “Logic and conversation”, in Peter Cole, Jerry Morgan, editors, Speech Acts, New York: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry cooperative principle

Meaning of succession

1. noun An act of following in sequence.
2. noun A sequence of things in order.
3. noun A passing of royal powers.

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Questions about succession in a sentence

How do you use succession in a sentence?

Succession is used as a noun. For example: “The question of the succession to a throne needs to be settled.”

What is a short sentence with succession?

“They scored two goals in quick succession.”

What does succession mean?

Succession means an act of following in sequence.