CONSECUTIVE in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for CONSECUTIVE, such as:
1. She was absent for nine consecutive days.
2. The consecutive file saving method also created some problems.
3. He was chosen to represent Scotland in three consecutive World Cup Finals.
4. For two consecutive seasons he lived in the sunlight of Mademoiselle Duvigne's presence.
5. This is the fifth consecutive weekend that I've spent working, and I'm a bit fed up with it.
2. The consecutive file saving method also created some problems.
3. He was chosen to represent Scotland in three consecutive World Cup Finals.
4. For two consecutive seasons he lived in the sunlight of Mademoiselle Duvigne's presence.
5. This is the fifth consecutive weekend that I've spent working, and I'm a bit fed up with it.
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Meanings and Examples of CONSECUTIVE
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consecutive
a. successive (without a break)
a. in regular succession without gaps
Classic Sentence:
1 For two consecutive seasons he lived in the sunlight of Mademoiselle Duvigne's presence.
2 Though rendered less connected by many and general interruptions and outbreakings, a translation of their language would have contained a regular descant, which, in substance, might have proved to possess a train of consecutive ideas.
3 When, for instance, we say that Napoleon ordered armies to go to war, we combine in one simultaneous expression a whole series of consecutive commands dependent one on another.
4 Only the possible ones get linked up with a consecutive series of commands corresponding to a series of events, and are executed.
5 "And one vote may decide the whole question, and one must be serious and consecutive, if one wants to be of use in public life," concluded Sergey Ivanovitch.
6 It was very strange that a young gentleman who had never been left to his own guidance for five consecutive minutes, should be incapable at last of governing himself; but so it was with Tom.
7 Conversely, when two consecutive princes are of rare excellence, we commonly find them achieving results which win for them enduring renown.
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Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX.
8 He was loud and boisterous, always laughing and singing, and never able to work consecutively at anything.
Example Sentence:
1 This is the fifth consecutive weekend that I've spent working, and I'm a bit fed up with it.
2 She was absent for nine consecutive days.
3 He was chosen to represent Scotland in three consecutive World Cup Finals.
4 The consecutive file saving method also created some problems.