Sample sentences for SEQUENTIAL

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Definition

happening in a specific order — especially chronological order

She has a gift for breaking a complex task into a simple series of sequential steps.

sequential = happening in a specific order — especially chronological order

The story is told sequentially.
Please start at the beginning and tell the story in sequence.
She is outstanding at sequential reasoning while he excels at leaps of intuitive insight.
In his mind, he reviewed the sequence of events that had begun in the cave.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park

sequence = order (happening in order)

One by one, in sequence, I tugged on each of the ropes,
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried

sequence = order (the order in which the ropes are arranged)

At end of intermission, the following enter single file, row by row, ... entering in sequence as follows:
Thornton Wilder -- Our Town

sequence = in a specific order

Her carefully planned sequence of events was disrupted,
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death

sequence = happening in a specific order

On a pattern like this, by daylight, there is a lack of sequence, a defiance of law, that is a constant irritant to a normal mind.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

sequence = happening in a specific order

Always remember, fencing requires a mastery of skills that are sequential and hierarchical in nature.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked

sequential = happening in a specific order

She seems to be performing operations in the wrong sequence.
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark

sequence = order of events

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat

sequence = an order in which things happened

He tried to imagine the sequence of events:
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

sequence = order (chronological order in which things happen)

I mean, the way he hammered home his points, one by one, in logical sequence.
Reginald Rose -- Twelve Angry Men

sequence = order (happening in order)

A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.
O. Henry -- The Gift of the Magi

sequence = order

"How strangely you talk," said I, "of such a constantly recurring and consequently commonplace matter as the sequence of the seasons."
William Morris -- News from Nowhere
I liked working out the sequence of blue eyes in families that had no characteristics except blue eyes and brown eyes.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
This whole fearsome sequence of events appeared in my mind's eye.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
She had raised the paddle that started the sequence of events that led to Missy being taken.
William P. Young -- The Shack
Soon their column too was broken into a sequence of irregular puffs.
James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout

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