How to Use in ascending order in a Sentence
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These foundations start with an ace and go in ascending order by suit.
—Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2022
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Play cards from your hand to the table in ascending order (one card on the first round, two cards in the second and so on).
—NBC News, 19 June 2020
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Each person was acknowledged in ascending order, based on their years of service.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
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This deck comes with cards numbered 1 to 100, and players have to play them in ascending order.
—Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping, 17 Nov. 2022
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For this purpose, imagine a million rooms numbered in ascending order.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
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The milk crate pyramids seen in most videos are stacked in ascending order -- one, then two, typically up to seven, then back down to one.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2021
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In keeping with annual tradition, read on for our list, in ascending order.
—Vogue, 31 Dec. 2021
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Here’s how to unlock a door in seven different ways, in ascending order of destruction.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
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Chimpanzees that have been trained to link numerosities to number symbols could also learn to touch the digits in ascending order.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Wired, 15 Aug. 2021
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To be clear, investment in the following rocks is a must, and they have been listed in ascending order of priority.
—Manoj Agarwal, Forbes, 1 June 2022
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Lucy biopic Being the Ricardos, which are listed in ascending order of mystery.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2021
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This is where the competitive aspect comes in – any player may add to a foundation pile to create the suit in ascending order, not just the player who put the first ace down.
—Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2022
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The prototypes are split into three classes in ascending order of horsepower and speed, with GTP at the top.
—Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2023
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Whoever draws the number 1 begins, and players continue in ascending order.
—Veronica Bravo, USA Today, 18 Dec. 2025
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Semantics aside, here are 15 of the quickest-accelerating EVs in ascending order.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
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Then, in 1869, the Renumbering Committee came up with a plan to renumber each block in ascending order, eliminate duplicate numbers and fractional numbers, and reserve an adequate store of numbers for empty lots.
—New York Times, 27 Jan. 2021
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