SUCCESSIVE in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for SUCCESSIVE, such as:
1. Ability and hard work cinched his success.
2. She won the championship four times in succession.
3. The phases of this change were numerous and successive.
4. She has won the award for the third year in succession.
5. A succession of military defeats weakened the aggressor.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SUCCESSIVE
successive
 a.  in regular succession without gaps
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They disputed fifteen successive days, and on the last of those fifteen days, they were as far advanced as on the first.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XX
2  Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
3  Then he went out for eight successive days with his rosette.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
4  The phases of this change were numerous and successive.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
5  Caesar and Tacitus are two successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, regulates the entrances and the exits.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  The successive and simultaneous scenes of this grand slaughter we renounce all attempts at depicting.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
7  The officer who commanded the post of the Red Cross was sent for, and by successive inquiries they learned that Athos was then lodged in Fort l'Eveque.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD
8  All these successive accidents were perhaps the result of chance; but they might be the fruits of a plot.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
9  Having got there, he collected two successive loads of stone and dragged them down to the windmill before retiring for the night.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
10  Disturbed by these different reflections; inclining now to one course and then to another, and again recoiling from all, as each successive consideration presented itself to her mind; Rose passed a sleepless and anxious night.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  He had distinguished himself, and early gained the other step in rank, and must now, by successive captures, have made a handsome fortune.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  For two successive years his mistress had seemed to take pleasure in lighting a bonfire on the bank overlooking the valley; but this year she had apparently quite forgotten the day and the customary deed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
13  In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
14  Four successive revolutions had built and cemented the pedestal upon which his fortune was based.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
15  Madame de Saint-Meran had three successive attacks, at intervals of some minutes, each one more serious than the former.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  For decades, successive French governments have sought solutions to the Corsica problem; none has yet worked.
2  In Tokyo share prices have plummeted for the sixth successive day.
3  Losing several matches in succession had completely demoralized the team.
4  She won the championship four times in succession.
5  He's been hit by a succession of injuries since he joined the team.
6  The institution of bishops he defends as convenient and of long standing, rather than as based on Apostolic succession.
7  A succession of military defeats weakened the aggressor.
8  She is the world champion for the third year in succession.
9  She has won the award for the third year in succession.
10  The cost of living seems set to drop for the third month in succession.
11  Respondents were shown two products in succession and asked whether they were somehow connected.
12  Upon the demise of the dictator, a bitter dispute about succession to power developed.
13  In the past, companies with sloppy approaches have been able to count on their customers' lack of interest in cybersecurity which has dwindled over the years despite a succession of hacking scandals.
14  Sometimes you are not without effort, but chose the wrong direction; sometimes, success is not your ability, but by the power of others.
15  Ability and hard work cinched his success.