PROGRESSION in a Sentence

Learn PROGRESSION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
288 example sentences for PROGRESSION, such as:
1. To know one's self is true progress.
2. Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
3. Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
4. We cannot allow dogmatism to stand in the way of progress.
5. We must not allow reaction to stand in the way of progress.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PROGRESSION
progression
 n.  a movement forward
 n.  the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He did not sleep the whole night, and his fury, growing in a sort of vast, arithmetical progression, reached its highest limits in the morning.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 4
2  First, when used as a fin for progression; Second, when used as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping; Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
3  Wildeve forgot the loss of the money at the sight of his lost love, whose preciousness in his eyes was increasing in geometrical progression with each new incident that reminded him of their hopeless division.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
4  From this beginning the succeeding terms of the progression could be determined mathematically.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVI
5  The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the frontiers, such is the inevitable progression.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
7  Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
8  I have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
9  As they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; it is a whole solar system on the march.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
10  Both were susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress which is accomplished in the direction of evil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
11  There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
12  Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
13  If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
14  This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken ended.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
15  To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression.
2  Her progression through the grades of the civil service had been rapid.
3  Population is increasing in that country in a geometric progression.
4  To remain in good academic standing, a student must meet all progression milestones and maintain an overall average of at least B.
5  Students who achieve an acceptable standard will progress to degree studies.
6  No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
7  No matter how many mistakes you make or how slowly you progress, you are already ahead of those who never tried.
8  We cannot allow dogmatism to stand in the way of progress.
9  We must not allow reaction to stand in the way of progress.
10  Although she's recovering from her illness, her rate of progress is quite slow.
11  The argument needs to progress beyond the simple assertion that criminals are made not born.
12  To know one's self is true progress.
13  All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
14  The East and the West can work together for their mutual benefit and progress.
15  The big clubs are becoming increasingly impatient at the rate of progress.