לדלג לתוכן הראשי

adjective

successive

CEFR B2

following one another without interruption

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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