How to Use successive in a Sentence

successive

adjective
  • And the handsets land on the back, side, and screen in successive drops.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Sep. 2022
  • So could the home side’s recent form, with five successive wins.
    — Dean Jones, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • A lot of the fun of it is in the order of the successive images.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • These white settlers came in successive waves.
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • At the end of successive bleak quarters, income from wages didn’t crash.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Selkirk ended with four homers in four at-bats against the same pitcher over two successive games.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2026
  • The women’s successive quests send this stirring epic around the globe.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Jan. 2024
  • High ceilings were copied in successive churches to the present.
    — Lynn Whidden, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Each team played successive innings against the other two teams then would sit out an inning.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • And with each successive verdict, there was just a little bit more weight lifted.
    — NBC News, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Bengaluru moved to the top of the points’ table with successive wins and a healthy run-rate.
    — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Israel and Hezbollah have fought in successive wars for more than four decades.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Plus, a Friday game would have left the Heat with games on three successive days.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But with each successive loss, the challenge grows more daunting and the pressure grows.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Bruce Springsteen, bless him, has had his way with both now, in successive major tours.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Stepping toward the entrance across the street, the man takes successive shots.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • But what impressed Quinn the most were successive hustle plays.
    — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • His baptismal register does not name his father, but he was raised by two successive men.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • Duarte sank successive 3s to end the first quarter, the second one as time expired.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Our ancestors’ genomes were built through successive waves of gene transfers.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
  • Bulb lasagna avoids this by packing an impressive amount of successive blooms into a small space.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And there is a very old and widespread tradition that cockcrow marks successive times through the night.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • What looked like a school of flying fish turned out to be penguins, leaping from the water in successive waves.
    — Blair Braverman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 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
  • There were 100 tents then, and that number has grown with each successive Open.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • 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
  • Three successive Gators singled to start the inning, loading the bases with no outs.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2026

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