How to Use success in a Sentence

success

noun
  • The growth of the tourism industry is one of the city's great successes.
  • Success came easily to him.
  • She is country music's most recent success.
  • The costs have gone up, and the success rate has gone down.
    Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Must have been weird to deal with that at the same time as all the success.
    Gary Graff, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Their success on the Olympic stage is a point of pride.
    Will Graves, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The best way to prove team success is by winning a ring.
    Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Bill Ott from the church sent word that the event was a big success.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The success rate was slim and the risks involved were enormous.
    Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The high success rate well outweighed the few failures.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Sep. 2021
  • There is a need for each other and sometimes that gets in the way of the success of a team.
    Calvin Watkins The Dallas Morning News, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
  • It is said to bring luck and success to anyone who wins it.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Paramedics worked at the scene without success to save his life.
    Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Its success has helped push for the pursuit of a project that would rise above all that noise.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2019
  • One that asks women to not revel in their success but to still do the work.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 4 July 2019
  • The success of the over-all project is far from guaranteed.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 4 May 2022
  • The rest had mixed success; some could do it, some couldn’t.
    Ilana Strauss, SELF, 9 July 2018
  • But her success was undercut by the boyfriend, the aunt said.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • No one had been harmed in the test flight, which was publicly deemed a success.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Just don’t pat them on the back about their early success.
    Brent Zwerneman, ExpressNews.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The success stories stand in relief against all that has not worked.
    Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
  • But the film was a box office success, and has since had a sequel.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Good mentors paved the way for their students and basked in their success.
    Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 24 Oct. 2017
  • But Dalvin Cook might be the key to the Vikings' success.
    Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Not to worry though, these recipes are sure to set you up for success.
    Sunset Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Holmes said his secondary was a key to the defense’s success.
    al, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But so far, such success is the exception, not the rule.
    Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 24 May 2021
  • So, yes, success in the Southeast is a good place to start.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 17 July 2019
  • Yet his level of success doesn’t matter now, in the scheme of things.
    Maria Torres, kansascity, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Monk, an artist, doesn’t know how to feel about its success.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024

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