How to use successive in a sentence

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• He showed loyalty to his local football club after successive relegations.From the entry loyalty
• The crownings of the two successive monarchs were only a year apart.From the entry crowning
• After the sixth successive system init he had to concede that the database was corrupt.From the entry init
• Decodable books are sold in packs, with more letter combinations appearing in each successive book.From the entry decodable
• Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.From the entry administration
• To combine a sequence of shots into a larger syntagma, there has to be a connection between the successive shots.From the entry syntagma
• The successive equity financings were at higher and higher valuations.From the entry financing
• Had two showers, one lukewarm and one lukecool, in a cold house on successive rainy days.2022 March 11, Linda Swan Burhenne, A Widow's Tale, Covenant Books, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry lukecool
• Pre-processing of breathomics data involves at least three successive steps: noise reduction, background (baseline) correction, and alignment.2014, Nirmal K. Ganguly, Studies on Respiratory Disorders, page 73. From the entry breathomics
• In between is a gradient of forms with many successive levels, the mesolects.2013, Allan Bell, The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry acrolect
• And all have been significantly altered by successive waves of reclamation.2009 December 13, Jason Wordie, “Out and about”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2023…. From the entry West Point
• By contrast, the successive observations of pink noise tend to be positively correlated.2005, John G. Holden, Gauging the Fractal Dimension of Response Times from Cognitive Tasks. From the entry fractal dimension
• This process of successive problem analysis and decomposition can be illustrated by using a "problem tree" structure.1982, Edouard J. Desautels, Assembly language programming for PDP 11 and LSI 11 computers: an introduction to computer organization. From the entry subsubproblem
• BLH data from successive iterations overstore the original set of integrated BLH data.1976, Ramani Ramakrishnan, Donald Randall, Robert N. Hosier, A computer program to predict rotor rotational noise of a stationary rotor…. From the entry overstore
• The procedure involves successive marking of the same mat with layers of carborundum at least twice.1976, M.R. Walter, Stromatolites, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry carborundum
• LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.1975, Tse-yun Feng, Parallel processing: proceedings of the Sagamore Computer Conference. From the entry ravelled
• However, you will glimpse a few of the well-proportioned rooms and furnishings supplied by successive Mrs Presidents.1969, “Washington D.C.”, in Anna Crew, editor, Student Guide to North America 1969, London: British Student Travel Centre, page 49. From the entry Mrs President
• In the total artistic process the two phases—rational and non-rational, planful and inspirational—may be successive or simultaneous.1959, Thomas Munro, “Art and Scientific Technology”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 19, number 3, page 400. From the entry non-rational
• Successive circles of the line are wrapped about each other with the free end at the center.1943 November, “More on Marlinespike”, in Charles F[rederic] Chapman, editor, Motor Boating: The Yachtsman’s Magazine, volume 72, number…. From the entry flemish
• Slowed down to simulate the successive phase, the really-moving light loses its blur of movingness.1942, Gordon Lynn Walls, The Vertebrate Eye and its Adaptive Radiation, page 360. From the entry movingness
• Two successive panifications of the same flour do not give identical results.1942, International Review of Agriculture, volume 33, number 2. From the entry panification
• The Gazette began before boroughhood and has continued along successive decades.1922, George Thornton Flemming, History of Pittsburgh and its Environs, page 348. From the entry boroughhood
• Successive divisions of this band, which is called the "mitoplast," give rise to several chloroplasts.1920, P.-A. Dangeart, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., volume 170, abstract, page 301. From the entry mitoplast
• Two successive Supervisor of the County, Mr.2023 December, Ping Hao, “Several strong historical earthquakes during Ming and Qing Dynasties and their effects to local reconstruction…. From the entry Xiangling
• Trump won’t succeed, as his successive losses of the House, Senate, presidency and last week’s midterm results show.2022 November 15, George T. Conway III, “Trump is out for vengeance — and to protect himself from prosecution”, in The Washington Post. From the entry walk on broken glass
• Successive differentiation events lead to early gametocytes (stages I to III), susceptible to most of classical schizonticidal antimalarials.2015 August 29, “A New Set of Chemical Starting Points with Plasmodium falciparum Transmission-Blocking Potential for Antimalarial Drug…. From the entry schizonticidal
• It is a serial story which we are all reading, and which grows in vital interest with each successive installment.2012, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition, →ISBN. From the entry installment
• Successive governments, both Labour and Tory, have shied away from doing what they both know is actually unavoidable.'2010, Keith Milligan, The Crosses of Aiolos: A Tale of Wind and Wallets, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry n-word
• The diversity as protensive is in the manifoldness of the successive instants through which the appearance as quality is prolonged .2009, Laurens Perseus Hickok, Rational Psychology, page 138. From the entry protensive
• It was becoming increasingly clear, with every successive sighting from the crow’s-nests, that the Ottomans had more ships.2008, Roger Crowley, Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521–1580, Rearsby, Leics.: W F Howes Ltd, published 2009…. From the entry crow's-nest
• A corresponding series of descending subcombs lay in place, each successive subcomb's conduits, or teeth, having diameters decreased by half.2007, Ron Sanders, Microcosmia, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry subcomb
• A bridge may combine posted memory writes to successive dwords into a single burst memory write transaction using linear addressing.1999, Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, PCI system architecture. From the entry dword
• The Roman street had seven successive metallings.1979, The Antiquaries Journal, volume 58, page 106. From the entry metalling
• Watling's suggestion is of no help at all in explaining how to form an actual infinite by successive addition.1979, William Lane Craig, The Kalām Cosmological Argument, page 183. From the entry infinitieth
• Robinson in Western Australia indicate that Peewees tend to pair for life, and hold the same territory on successive seasons.1964, Carl Weismann, Australian Bird Songs, page 15. From the entry peewee

Meaning of successive

1. adjective Coming one after the other in a series.
2. adjective Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.
3. adjective Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.

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Questions about successive in a sentence

How do you use successive in a sentence?

Successive is used as an adjective. For example: “They had won the title for five successive years.”

What is a short sentence with successive?

“a successive empire”

What does successive mean?

Successive means coming one after the other in a series.