How to Use sequence in a Sentence

sequence

1 of 2 noun

• He listened to the telephone messages in sequence.
• I enjoyed the movie's opening sequence.
• One field lists the sequence of events leading to the death.
  — Christie Aschwanden, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2020
• That whole sequence to me was kind of a blur, the catch, the run.
  — Dan Woike, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• At the end of the sequence, the ego prevails and stands tall over the shadows.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• There are two choreographed sequences in the movie, and the first is quick.
  — Debra Levine, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
• The one scene that sorta made it into the episode was the sauna sequence.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2023
• The movie opens with a fake-out dream sequence, for starters.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 6 Oct. 2020
• The most precise pianism of the sequence is also the most stiff.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• The goal was set up after a ridiculous sequence near the box.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 11 July 2018
• Talk about the opening sequence, the fever dream that just drops us in.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 1 July 2022
• Dixon moved into the lead in the latter stages of the race but was out of pit sequence.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2021
• Snow has a sequence of photos in his office of the play.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
• This sequence of events could lead to problems for the couple down the road.
  — Eileen Reslen, Good Housekeeping, 26 Sep. 2018
• What inspired you to stage that sequence of events in that way?
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• The sequence needed to hint at what was going to happen in the film.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 1 Nov. 2021
• The sequence of names on the ballot differs state by state too.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2020
• This process often changes the letter sequence at the site.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• This game changed on a four-play sequence in the third quarter.
  — Dallas News, 21 Sep. 2020
• The first time, the phones run through the same sequence of apps, loading each app for the first time.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Oct. 2021
• Because the film was shot in sequence, the rape scene loomed over her for the entire shoot.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2020
• Teen Vogue: The video feels a bit like a dream sequence.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Teen Vogue, 11 Oct. 2018
• The new sequence is one of the most complete maps of a plant’s genetics.
  — Karen Weintraub, sacbee, 11 May 2018
• By the time the fifth episode starts with a chase sequence set to Swedish punk band Alle!
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
• As many guessed, Jack returned to the show as part of a dream sequence.
  — Jamie Ballard, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2018
• The ejection sequence is only like a third of a second apart.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2020
• So choose your genre, melt the butter, and let the title sequence roll.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 5 Apr. 2018
• This would slow the seat to a safe speed before start of deployment sequence.
  — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
• When others crashed up ahead, the sequence allowed him to cruise past.
  — Adam Kilgore, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2018
• His best sequence came midway through the first quarter.
  — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 13 July 2018

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sequence

2 of 2 verb

• The first human genome took over a decade to sequence at a cost of about a billion dollars.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Positive samples are sent to the state lab to sequence for the variant.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2021
• Researchers worked quickly to sequence the virus and learn more about it.
  — Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT, 24 Dec. 2020
• And likewise, a Story is not about the things sequenced in the story.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 3 May 2018
• Rather, what is likely to slow things down is the gathering of the samples to be sequenced.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
• Labs therefore have to take an extra step and sequence the virus to find this variant.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
• The ease with which consumers can now get their genes sequenced has had a few tricky consequences.
  — Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2020
• Golden Gate plans to adapt and sequence the lectures for the degrees.
  — Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
• One of the most challenging regions to sequence in the human genome is centromeres.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2021
• For a period of time, the games have sequenced really well for him.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2019
• The virus was characterized quickly and sequenced in less than a month.
  — Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2020
• In high school, boys and girls have their DNA sequenced.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019
• These three samples were used to sequence the highland wild dogs’ genomes.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2020
• The remaining species would be sequenced, in less detail still, over the final four years of the project.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
• The researchers then sent the fluid in which the embryos grew, plus the embryos themselves, to be sequenced.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• Both lived around the same time so pre-date most of the Neanderthals whose genomes have been sequenced to date.
  — Fox News, 26 June 2019
• The civil rights movement has been sequenced in thousands of photos.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 14 June 2023
• The team took samples of her tumors and sequenced their DNA.
  — NBC News, 4 June 2018
• Such is the familiar nature of genome sequencing to many of us today.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• Dinsdale says the device can fill a big gap in our knowledge—only five shark genomes in the world have been sequenced to date.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
• Is sequencing the order of songs on your albums difficult or easy for you?
  — Matt Wake, AL.com, 13 June 2017
• Last month, researchers were even able to sequence the DNA of a man who died in the city.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2022
• This complexity makes the genome tricky to sequence and to assemble.
  — Karen Weintraub, sacbee, 11 May 2018
• Rollin makes the cemetery seem like an expansive maze, sequencing shots in such a way that one has no sense of the layout.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 1 Mar. 2018
• That was large enough to cover some gaps left behind by the original project that sequenced the human genome.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2018
• These were similar to the machines used in China to sequence the virus for the first time, six months before.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• Then, the researchers sequence these bees to identify markers.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 25 July 2019
• Researchers also want to sequence the genes of the world’s entire rice collection.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2020
• Sánchez Pérez and her colleagues have now sequenced the first complete almond genome.
  — Jennifer Leman, Scientific American, 13 June 2019
• As more species—both present and past—get their genomes sequenced, researchers can start to find even more patterns like these.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024