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chronological

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Definition arranged according to time
  • Events are listed in chronological order.
chronological = arranged according to time
  • The art works are displayed to show technique in a way that ordinary regional or chronological display wouldn't permit.
  • chronological = arranged according to time
  • Please tell us about the evidence you found in logical rather than chronological order.
  • chronological = arranged according to time
  • The resume is organized by functional skills rather than chronologically by previous jobs.
  • chronologically = arranged according to time
  • Mrs. Harker says that they are knitting together in chronological order every scrap of evidence they have.
    Bram Stoker  --  Dracula
  • chronological = arranged according to time
  • In this matter dates are everything, and I think that if we get all of our material ready, and have every item put in chronological order, we shall have done much.
    Bram Stoker  --  Dracula
  • chronological = arranged according to time
  • I could go chronologically, or I could work from easy to hard or hard to easy, depending on my mood.
    Maxine Hong Kingston  --  The Woman Warrior
  • From this point on, Grandma's letter becomes increasingly chaotic, the details interspersed without chronological consistency.
    Joy Kogawa  --  Obasan
  • But all this later, let us take events in their chronological order.
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky  --  The Brothers Karamazov
  • Mastine was able to establish that, as I had said, it was an affidavit in which I retold the encounter with Madison chronologically.
    Alice Sebold  --  Lucky
  • "But sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order," I say.
    Colleen Hoover  --  Slammed
  • "d'Artagnan and I. Or rather, to observe the chronological order, I and d'Artagnan," replied Athos.
    Alexandre Dumas  --  The Three Musketeers
  • Later (chronologically, although it takes place previously in the narrative), when Beloved makes her appearance, she emerges from water.
    Thomas C. Foster  --  How to Read Literature Like a Professor
  • In a flash, she recognized that the aisles were chronological.
    James Patterson  --  1st to Die
  • I had memorized the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Roosevelt in chronological as well as alphabetical order.
    Maya Angelou  --  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • Scattered throughout were hints, vaguely worded allusions, and a few very direct chronological and geographical references.
    Robert Ludlum  --  The Bourne Identity
  • I wandered down the hall, past the school pictures of Gracie and Garrett hung in chronological order, and into the family room.
    Laurie Halse Anderson  --  The Impossible Knife of Memory
  • I make here a little chronological table of events.
    Agatha Christie  --  Murder On The Orient Express
  • And inside, arranged in strict chronological order, were more than a hundred pictures that somehow stuck better to memory than Cacciato himself.
    Tim O'Brien  --  Going After Cacciato
  • Most cataloging was done chronologically.
    Dan Brown  --  Angels & Demons

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