לדלג לתוכן הראשי

adjective

chronological

CEFR B1

relating to or arranged according to temporal order

In a sentence

Six example sentences with chronological, each labelled with its topic.

  • The film abandons chronological storytelling, opening with the funeral and circling back through five badly matched memories.

    Movies

  • Her memoir refuses chronological sequence, so childhood summers sit beside a hospital stay forty years later.

    Literature

  • The exhibition hangs the negatives in chronological rows, from the first cracked glass plate to last year's digital files.

    Photography

  • The auditor asked for every receipt in chronological order, so a missing March invoice stood out at once.

    Finance

  • Memories rarely return in chronological order; patients recall the vivid moment first and rebuild the surrounding hours later.

    Psychology

  • The prosecutor walked the jury through a chronological timeline, pinning each phone call to the minute it was placed.

    Law

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