sequence

In a sentence

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

• Follow the sequence exactly: salt the eggplant, rinse it, dry it, and only then lower it into the oil.

  Cooking

• Beating the final boss requires a precise sequence of dodge, parry, and heavy attack, repeated without a single mistimed press.

  Gaming

• The organist memorized the sequence of stops to pull so the chorale swelled exactly where the composer marked it.

  Music

• Reading the DNA sequence of the virus showed exactly where it differed from the strain seen the year before.

  Science

• The chase sequence took eleven days to shoot, though it lasts barely four minutes on the screen.

  Movies

• The winning play was a sequence of three quick passes, each one arriving before the defender could turn his head.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains sequence. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• unique
• vary
• construct
• aid
• equivalent
• maintained
• attach
• positively
• selection
• lecture
• undergo
• affect