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adjective

serial

CEFR B2

arranged in or happening as a series, one after another

In a sentence

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

  • Dickens published his novels in serial form, one installment a month, so readers waited weeks to learn a character's fate.

    Literature

  • A serial port sends each bit down a single wire in turn, which is slower than pushing eight at once in parallel.

    Technology

  • Saturday matinees ran a serial adventure in weekly chapters, each ending with the hero dangling from a cliff.

    Movies

  • A serial dilution halves the sample at each step, so the tenth tube holds a thousandth of the first.

    Science

  • A serial founder, she has started four companies one after another and sold three of them.

    Startups

  • The artist works in serial form, painting the same haystack thirty times as the light shifts through the seasons.

    Art

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