How to Use succeed in a Sentence

succeed

verb

• The plan just might succeed.
• She will succeed him as chair of the committee.
• You can succeed where others failed.
• Both of them have ambitions to succeed the prime minister.
• Their attempt seemed unlikely to succeed.
• The Queen died and was succeeded by James I.
• James I succeeded to the throne upon the Queen's death in 1603.
• The best way to succeed at any sport is by doing that sport.
  — Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health, 14 June 2022
• Shaw a the best chance to succeed, and that’s not with the bases loaded and two out, that’s with a fresh inning.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2022
• The job of any team is to put their players in the best position to succeed.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• The report also states that the creators fought back and the threat did not succeed.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
• But in the end, the goal isn’t to become impervious to fear but to be able to succeed in spite of it.
  — Ryan McGrath, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• Brazilians have seen coups succeed and stay for decades.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 9 Jan. 2023
• Why were the researchers able to succeed in dating the ship when others had failed?
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
• On YouTube, viewers see the drone missions that succeed, not those that fail.
  — Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2023
• Maya Hawke: And are watching each other grow and fail and succeed.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• Their run will help the team succeed with recruitment and the portal.
  — Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
• Pacheco feels blessed to have parents that care for him so much and that further drives him to succeed.
  — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023
• George Lucas knew that Star Wars would succeed or fail on the strength of its effects.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 27 July 2022
• Duro succeeds Eli Velazquez, who is leaving the company at the end of the month.
  — Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• As a kid, Wesley Jackson Wade should have been set up to succeed.
  — Claire Sibonney, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
• Teams will then select in the reverse order in each succeeding round of the 15-round draft.
  — John Wawrow, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• The teams that succeed often in those are usually the teams that do all the little things right and have a good bullpen.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2024
• For the Redeem Team to succeed in 2008, chemistry had to form between fierce on-the-court rivals.
  — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2022
• After that effort did not succeed, the project was given more than a year to wind down.
  — Jacob Ward, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• Valenti will succeed Renaud de Lesquen, who’s been at the helm since April 2020.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 July 2024
• And that the only way to succeed is to conform instead of resist.
  — Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2022
• Young people arrive, some stay and some go, some succeed and some fail.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• No one in the last 25 years had those measurements or shorter and succeeded long term at left tackle.
  — Chad Graff, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
• But what naysayers are failing to realize is that a relatively unknown actor is exactly what the adaptation needs to succeed.
  — Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025