In a sentence
Six example sentences with successive, each labelled with its topic.
Three successive weeks of heavier squats left her strongest yet, and the fourth week deliberately dropped the load by half.
Fitness
Four successive governments promised the coastal railway, and each left office with the same stretch of track unbuilt.
Politics
Stacking successive exposures of the same field lets faint stars emerge from noise that swallows them in any single frame.
Photography
The team won eleven successive games in January and lost the twelfth on a buzzer beater.
Basketball
Three successive rate cuts brought the mortgage rate below four percent for the first time in a decade.
Finance
The symphony's slow movement builds through successive entries of the strings, each a fifth higher than the last.
Music
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