How to Use successive in a Sentence

successive

adjective
Definition of successivenext
Synonyms for successivenext
  • A lot of the fun of it is in the order of the successive images.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The first three years of the 2020s set successive records for the fewest numbers of births in the city.
    — Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2024
  • And the handsets land on the back, side, and screen in successive drops.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The women’s successive quests send this stirring epic around the globe.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Jeff started the game out with the hot hand and drained successive three-point shots to give his team an early lead.
    — Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2022
  • But with each successive loss, the challenge grows more daunting and the pressure grows.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • There were 100 tents then, and that number has grown with each successive Open.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • At that point, many field hands crossed the border and stayed for good — aging with each successive crop.
    — Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Stepping toward the entrance across the street, the man takes successive shots.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • The timeline got all Tarantino-ed during a 12-2 loss to the Phillies in which the Mets turned back the clock with each successive inning.
    — Jerry Beach, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
  • The key is the kitchen will reuse the same mother lard for a month, maybe longer, to build up flavors over each successive cook.
    — Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • High ceilings were copied in successive churches to the present.
    — Lynn Whidden, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
  • With each successive wave of Covid, the disease spikes in cities and then rolls out to rural areas.
    — Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American, 10 June 2022
  • And it’s to the play’s immense credit that successive productions have found in it a unique response to the tenor of its time.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The Toreros opened the season with three straight victories, but have not been able to win successive games since.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Each successive round convinced Shields’s team that Kozin would not last the 10-round distance.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2022
  • That win itself came as the third successive victory in a row for the Catalan team.
    — Sam Leveridge, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The breaks in the image are caused by successive satellite overhead passes.
    — Jay Anderson, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • As the soils get more saturated with each successive storm, the flood threat will increase through time.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Zak Sigman and Braxton Bryant added successive bunt singles to load the bases but a 6-4-3 double play got the Comets out of the inning down just one.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 10 June 2022
  • The Stars put together a drive with Cookus finding Dexter Williams on successive plays of 34 and 13 yards to forge into the red zone.
    — cleveland, 4 July 2022
  • No, Santos sat on the Republican side of the House floor during each successive round of votes.
    — Donovan Slack, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
  • And the record so far suggests that each successive variant does less damage to the economy.
    — Don Lee Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The seven workers were killed by three successive strikes on three cars traveling along a road in Gaza.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The successive bursts of gunfire came in a the largely Shia neighborhood of Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold.
    — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024
  • After that, Leary and the Wildcats settled into a rhythm; their four touchdowns came in four successive drives.
    — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2023
  • On each successive album, the metal musicians waited for the mainstream to come to them.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Since all other primes are odd, the interval between any two successive primes has to be even, but no one knows a rule to govern this.
    — Alec Wilkinson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • In a place like the Gulf Coast, successive hurricanes and flooding create a deeper and deeper hole for people to get out of.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
  • DeSantis can’t run for a third term as governor in 2026, because state law requires those who have been elected to two successive terms to stand down at least for one election cycle.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024

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