How to Use successive in a Sentence

successive

adjective

• A lot of the fun of it is in the order of the successive images.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
• The women’s successive quests send this stirring epic around the globe.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Jan. 2024
• But with each successive loss, the challenge grows more daunting and the pressure grows.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• 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
• And it’s to the play’s immense credit that successive productions have found in it a unique response to the tenor of its time.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 29 Sep. 2022
• The breaks in the image are caused by successive satellite overhead passes.
  — Jay Anderson, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 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
• No, Santos sat on the Republican side of the House floor during each successive round of votes.
  — Donovan Slack, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
• After that, Leary and the Wildcats settled into a rhythm; their four touchdowns came in four successive drives.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2023
• On each successive album, the metal musicians waited for the mainstream to come to them.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
• In a place like the Gulf Coast, successive hurricanes and flooding create a deeper and deeper hole for people to get out of.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
• The reward amount had risen over the last three months, since the last jackpot was won on Oct. 14, getting higher after successive draws had no winner.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
• Indeed this was the future that successive Italian leaders dreamed of before the country signed up.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• Each of those pods will encapsulate a successive number of days within one of those years.
  — Amon Warmann, Variety, 7 Apr. 2023
• Each successive Green 3-pointer just served as another dagger to the heart of a hearty Los Gatos contingent who made the trip up 880 to Oakland.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• But two decades of successive unpaid-for tax cuts eroded our nation’s revenue base.
  — Brian Deese and David Kamin, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2023
• Above the Arctic Circle, the moon rises earlier on successive nights.
  — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• But the aircraft encountered successive waves of attacks from the Luftwaffe, the German air force, which easily picked them off.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• Since then, successive Israeli governments have tried and failed to craft such a solution, constantly kicking the can down the road.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2024
• The four successive Allied assaults on these positions became known as the Battle of Monte Cassino.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2022
• Beginning in late summer, make three successive sowings, planting them two to three weeks apart.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2023
• Gunther said the current problems go back to 2018 when successive dry years strained Europe’s water supply.
  — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Each successive ruling party in Iran changed fashion to align with their political point of view.
  — ELLE, 5 Jan. 2023
• From the early 1970s, successive governments had tried to restrict union power.
  — Jane Holgate, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• After successive waves of Russian strikes, Ukraine has faced a stark electricity deficit and rolling blackouts.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Mayors throughout Ukraine took to Twitter and Telegram to urge residents to take shelter as successive waves of missile strikes were launched.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
• This will add pressure to health systems that have faced successive, overlapping waves of RSV, then flu, and increasingly Covid.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Jan. 2023
• Handy, too, as successive waves of rainwater had nowhere to go on a roadway almost as legendary for its poor drainage as for its treacherous potholes.
  — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 28 Jan. 2023
• After successive generations, our iPhone got notably warm to the touch.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2022
• Mass shootings have been a staple of American life in the decades since, and with each successive horror, Feinstein renewed her calls for stricter gun control.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024