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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
- One by one, in sequence, I tugged on each of the ropes,Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried
- At end of intermission, the following enter single file, row by row, ... entering in sequence as follows:Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
- Her carefully planned sequence of events was disrupted,Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- 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
- Always remember, fencing requires a mastery of skills that are sequential and hierarchical in nature.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
- She seems to be performing operations in the wrong sequence.Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
- 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
- He tried to imagine the sequence of events:Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- I mean, the way he hammered home his points, one by one, in logical sequence.Reginald Rose -- Twelve Angry Men
- 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
- "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
sequence = order (happening in order)
sequence = order (the order in which the ropes are arranged)
sequence = in a specific order
sequence = happening in a specific order
sequence = happening in a specific order
sequential = happening in a specific order
sequence = order of events
sequence = an order in which things happened
sequence = order (chronological order in which things happen)
sequence = order (happening in order)
sequence = order
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