In a sentence
Six example sentences with series, each labelled with its topic.
Her series of forty portraits hangs in a single line, each subject photographed at the same hour on consecutive days.
Photography
The finals series went to seven games, and the last three were decided by a total of five points.
Basketball
A long series of quarterly figures shows the same dip every January, which has nothing to do with policy.
Economics
A series of six rate rises in eight months pushed mortgage payments up by a third for many families.
Finance
The vaccine is given as a series of three injections, spaced a month apart, and protection begins after the second.
Medicine
The hall runs a series of lunchtime concerts every autumn, each one exactly forty-five minutes and free.
Music
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Found in these word lists
Found in 9 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)
- Business English Academic Word List
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- Medical Academic Word List
- Nursing Word List
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)
- Science Vocabulary List
Each source is a published word list that contains series. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.