How to Use follow-on in a Sentence

follow-on

adjective
  • Now, there’s some logical follow-on to that.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Then there were some follow-on announcements that sort of played that down a little bit.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • And some of the investments were follow-on rounds for the same companies.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Hackers with access to source code can use it for follow-on attacks on other systems.
    — Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • And while the weight-loss studies did include far more women than men, many of the follow-on heart disease trials did not.
    — Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The military went back in, reportedly with a follow-on strike.
    — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • As long as the top line continued to climb, follow-on venture funding likely would be available.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
  • That stint lasted two years, with a follow-on of two years in 2018 and 2019.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Any follow-on messages will be added to the context window and sent back as additional tokens.
    — Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
  • Some lawmakers have questioned whether that follow-on strike constituted a war crime.
    — CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • But in many cases, once the investment is made, follow-on projects accelerate.
    — Maggie Laird, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • Some lawmakers have questioned whether that follow-on strike constituted a war crime.
    — CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • Taking the pilot out of the cockpit will come as a follow-on certification project.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
  • The pilot is in stable condition and receiving follow-on care.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Some lawmakers questioned whether the follow-on strike constituted a war crime.
    — CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Some lawmakers questioned whether the follow-on strike constituted a war crime.
    — CBS News, 9 May 2026
  • Its mission is to jam radars, blind missile batteries, and create corridors for follow-on forces.
    — Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • About 100 of them received follow-on hacks that used the backdoor to install a second-stage payload.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This funding led to investments in six new companies and five follow-on investments.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • When two people survived, the military went back in, reportedly, with a follow-on strike.
    — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • In at least one instance, survivors have been killed in follow-on strikes, which experts have said is at odds with military law and rules of engagement.
    — ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • Google has committed up to $40 billion in follow-on investment.
    — Pranay Ahlawat, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Republicans have defended the follow-on strike, arguing the survivors may have still been in the fight.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The follow-on console ports of these arcade games are sadly not included, as this is meant as a purely arcade game collection.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The contract does not identify a program of record, deployment timeline, or follow-on testing plans.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Legal experts have said the follow-on strike may have been unlawful because striking shipwrecked sailors is considered out of line with laws of war.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • That in turn has generated $161 million in follow-on funding.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • During this step, the scammer checks balances to see if there’s enough profit potential for follow-on activities.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The follow-on was enforced, possibly because New Zealand eyed rain in the forecast on the fourth and final day.
    — ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • This is also called a follow-on offering — but, confusingly, some people call it a secondary offering as well.
    — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2023

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