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  • 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.   (source)
    sequence = 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.   (source)
    sequence = happening in a specific order
  • I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.   (source)
    sequence = an order in which things happened
  • Music played from a stereo on the piano and we began to dance, our feet tapping in sequence.†   (source)
  • For Kya, it was enough to be part of this natural sequence as sure as the tides.†   (source)
  • The best sequence at the moment is the one in the middle cubicle.†   (source)
  • He had them repeat the sequence.†   (source)
  • Begin boot sequence!†   (source)
  • The note, which had presumably been rolled up in the report, included a straightforward instruction of how to confirm that Sofia had arrived at the embassy safely, followed by a long sequence of seven-digit numbers.†   (source)
  • Lilian didn't reply, but jotted down the sequence of numbers and letters.†   (source)
  • I powered on the console and initiated the log-in sequence.†   (source)
  • These kids could remember complicated strands of numbers and recall words and pictures in correct sequence and quote long passages of poetry.†   (source)
  • "Captain," Sophie said, her tone dangerously defiant, "the sequence of numbers you have in your hand happens to be one of the most famous mathematical progressions in history."†   (source)
  • Now he was in utter darkness, feeling himself being pitched forward in a sequence of jerks and rushes, the wind rushing past him.†   (source)
  • Jen had explained it to him once, told him the exact sequence of buttons to hit to disable it.†   (source)
  • "Ready" was always first in the command sequence.†   (source)
  • As for keeping to the printed schedule, there was always a cadre of maids who knew the sequence of events better than the members did, and they would be loaned to nervous hostesses in order to ease their burden.†   (source)
  • According to Annabeth, who'd seen the show before, the blasts would be sequenced so tightly they'd look like frames of animation across the sky.†   (source)
  • The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.†   (source)
  • It takes thirteen steps to open, and she discovers the sequence in under five minutes.†   (source)
  • I've got some toddler memories, but my first sequence recall is kindergarten; no matter how hard I've tried to forget the experience.†   (source)
  • Brinker for example had begun a long, decisive sequence of withdrawals from school activity ever since the morning I deserted his enlistment plan.†   (source)
  • The sequence was illogical—the drowning scene, followed by a rescue, should have preceded the marriage proposal.†   (source)
  • It was a ridiculous sequence of events that led to me almost dying, and an even more ridiculous sequence that led to me surviving.†   (source)
  • I rearrange my tiles, sequences of bamboo and balls, doubles of colored number tiles, odd tiles that do not fit anywhere.†   (source)
  • As if joining scraps of fabric to make a quilt, Molly puts them in the right sequence and stitches them together, creating a pattern that was impossible to see when each piece was separate.†   (source)
  • The Grim River and the horseradish factory were only the first of a sequence of tragic and unpleasant episodes that bring a frown to my face and a tear to my eye whenever I think about them.†   (source)
  • How she and her sisters enjoyed the many afternoons spent watching the sequence of images drawn on strips of glass, which pictured different situations that were so entertaining.†   (source)
  • So I went to my adviser and the dean in sequence and said, I have a problem.†   (source)
  • Your DNA sequencing has been completed.†   (source)
  • But the moment it was over, another one started to build again, and she started to feel them in long sequences, one right after the next.†   (source)
  • Normally, HIV can infect only blood cells, but Axel had inserted a specific DNA sequence from a blood cell into HeLa cells, which made it possible for HIV to infect them as well.†   (source)
  • This was done not so much for effect as because he was trying to remember the sequence of muscle movements.†   (source)
  • After five minutes of perfect quiet, the same sequence repeats itself three more times, after which he's presumably lulled himself back to sleep for a while.†   (source)
  • Some battles had been cut into many scenes, which were scattered through the various videos; by watching them in sequence, Ender was able to reconstruct whole battles.†   (source)
  • We were both so young; he probably doesn't remember the sequence of events correctly.†   (source)
  • Earlier, the galleries had seemed fairly straightforward, a meandering but logical sequence where all tributaries flowed into the gift shop.†   (source)
  • We'd have to design the detonation sequence with great care, and once it's in motion, we couldn't hope to control it.†   (source)
  • The Outside piece was as accurate as I could make it under the circumstances, but my deadline had been unforgiving, the sequence of events had been frustratingly complex, and the memories of the survivors had been badly distorted by exhaustion, oxygen depletion, and shock.†   (source)
  • An immense number of paint pots filled a shelf, arranged in a strict colour sequence like a stretched and flattened rainbow.†   (source)
  • Sound off in sequence.†   (source)
  • But Olly's like a random letter, the big bold X thrown in the middle of the word or phrase that ruins the sequence.†   (source)
  • I liked working out the sequence of blue eyes in families that had no characteristics except blue eyes and brown eyes.†   (source)
  • Yet the event keeps returning to me in my dreams exactly as I've described it, with all the same sights and smells occurring in sequence as I stretched my weight over the water.†   (source)
  • With one hand I pulled the red "lining" out of my overcoat while I hit replay on the imager, watching through the eyepiece as it magnified the diskey sequence.†   (source)
  • As everybody knows, nothing enhances silly action sequences more than really cheesy animation.†   (source)
  • Not of the actual events, but of the sequence.†   (source)
  • She places the box on a rubber pad, then punches a sequence on her keypad.†   (source)
  • It was the first in a sequence of impossibly rich and voluminous banquets whose menus raised the question of whether any of the city's leading men could possibly have a functional artery.†   (source)
  • Now take Hart Crane's poem sequence The Bridge (1930), which plays with rivers and bridges throughout.†   (source)
  • "Check this out," he said, and showed her a sequence from an action movie where, instead of Bruce Willis, the protagonist now seemed to be Francis Garaventa.†   (source)
  • When I told Quentin about it, he called it a "sequential approach" to problems and admired it.†   (source)
  • It had a proper sequence and a point.†   (source)
  • They made a romantic pair all right, especially in the blindfold sequence.†   (source)
  • I watched Steffie's lips form the sequence: wow wow wow wow.†   (source)
  • According to Mr Charles, my father had duly driven to one village and was on the point of entering a second when either Mr Smith or Mr Jones noticed the village was Brigoon - that is to say the third, not the second, name of the sequence.†   (source)
  • She had raised the paddle that started the sequence of events that led to Missy being taken.†   (source)
  • He adjusted the igniter, glanced once more at wings and instruments, punched the jet sequence.†   (source)
  • There was this final fight sequence — the choreography was unbelievable!†   (source)
  • I'm getting way out of sequence here.†   (source)
  • Over and over and over again we repeated the sequence as we marched up and down the bike path.†   (source)
  • Art Moran had lain awake the night before fretting about his role in this trial and remembering the sequence of events with his eyes shut, as if they were occurring in a dream.†   (source)
  • The sequence of his emotions was revulsion, guilt, pity, then love.†   (source)
  • No, I mean, where are you in the sequence, the youngest, the oldest?†   (source)
  • Blomkvist played the sequence over and over.†   (source)
  • His father was just no help at all, refusing either to expire or stop mumbling (you thought his father was dead but that was in the fake-out, don't forget—Morgenstern was just edging into the nightmare sequence, so don't be confused) and start making sense.†   (source)
  • I do not know the exact sequence of events, but at some point Brom revealed his true identity to your mother.†   (source)
  • It's just a word for a particular sequence in my DNA, like a word for all people with brown eyes or blond hair.†   (source)
  • The only daughter of a prosperous wheat grower named Fox, the adored sister of three older brothers, she had not been spoiled but spared, led to suppose that life was a sequence of agreeable events-Kansas autumns, California summers, a round of teacup gifts.†   (source)
  • Moody had set the combination himself, and I had never known the sequence that would unlock the case.†   (source)
  • The cars are not sequentially numbered, and it takes me a while to find car 48.†   (source)
  • On a piece of paper, he drew up a roster of buddies, and he wrote down the order of entry, the sequence in which they would be inserted into the building.†   (source)
  • Angry now, they made another run, and set up the overlap and cross on the right side—the very sequence Luma had warned her players to shut down.†   (source)
  • She looked down to see emeralds, a long sequence of dark stones, caught in the gold stream of the chain against her skin.†   (source)
  • Atlantic Fleet Communications In Norfolk the first line of the dispatch revealed the page and line of the one-time-pad cipher sequence, which was recorded on computer tape in the maximum security section of the communications complex.†   (source)
  • The sequential detonations will destroy the sphere along with the compression phase.†   (source)
  • Pay special attention to the sequence of the strokes.†   (source)
  • His fluid sense of time made pinning down the exact sequence of many events in this book almost impossible, as did interviewing the Balti people with whom he works, who have no tenses in their language and as little attachment to linear time as the man they call Dr. Greg.†   (source)
  • This sequence repeated itself all the way across the parking lot, the salesmen in the showroom chuckling, before someone stuck a hand out the back door, offering him a hand, which he ignored.†   (source)
  • The sequence repeats.†   (source)
  • "Disembark" hardly suggests the lethal difficulty of the first component in this sequence.†   (source)
  • Becky's mouth watered as she dreamed of some fabulous sequence of tastes: foie gras, wild-berry duck, all washed down with an expensive champagne.†   (source)
  • When she compared the charts, they showed that at this exact historic moment there would be a terrible sequence of events, bringing blood, pain, and death.†   (source)
  • He starts to chew on it, nice and slew, so the important details each present themselves in sequence, like they've been tagged and numbered.†   (source)
  • What had been the sequence of events?†   (source)
  • She was a good student, a captain in net ball, a senior prefect, and showing promise in Bharatnatyam, finding in herself a talent for recapitulating a most intricate dance sequence after being shown it just once.†   (source)
  • The whole sequence struck him as surreal.†   (source)
  • I sat there in the dark trying to recall the sequence of the speech.†   (source)
  • She turned away at that, crossed over to watch the number sequences fly by on the console screen.†   (source)
  • He had to make the sequence of his revelations clear to these men.†   (source)
  • I lifted the kettle from the hob and then stood there, frozen, unable to remember the simple sequence of actions that I needed next to do.†   (source)
  • Then I had to collect additional forms that required further verification, again in the proper sequence, until, finally, I returned to the captain's office with a perfectly completed package.†   (source)
  • For hours she watched the rapid sequence of textures that flapped like streamers outside her window: vast latificndios, provinces of royal palms, black mountains encircled with clouds.†   (source)
  • The same sequences seem to have got kind of stuck together some places.†   (source)
  • People tended to look in sequence at Eugenides, then at the queen, and then at the plates in front of them.†   (source)
  • Max replayed the sequence in his mind.†   (source)
  • It was their daily job to sling words together in any combination they pleased, so long as the words did not fall into a sequence saying something specific.†   (source)
  • Then he repeated the sequence, keeping John Baugh's voice but this time also the face of Baugh, who is African American.†   (source)
  • The first sergeant moaned as he watched the thin leaves burn in sequence from Genesis to Kings, from Revelations toward Mark.†   (source)
  • In Jane Austen's Persuasion I had come across the lines, "she had been forced into prudence in her youth—she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning."†   (source)
  • That certain sequence of unrelated events.†   (source)
  • If you pumped it up it would spin and generate precisely the sequence from the 'Madre, non dormi…'†   (source)
  • He's taken them out of sequence, picking and choosing certain lines over a series of pages and putting them together in his own way.†   (source)
  • He lights a cigar and stares at a page, composing the sequence of words that will most amicably end the war.†   (source)
  • Misty had made up a whole list of songs that Sally Jean was supposed to play in sequence as I opened my gifts: "Sixteen Candles," "Only Sixteen," "You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful," and the Beatles' "Birthday.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, everything has a pass code, sequence, or secret decoder.†   (source)
  • Assuming a free market throughout the sequence his profit enhancement will be of the close order of sixfold.†   (source)
  • There are repeated code sequences in multiple strings that have no function.†   (source)
  • Since I realize that what I must now recount may strain the credulity of some of my readers; and since I have no technical knowledge whatsoever about radio, I can do no more than put forward an explanation given to me later by an expert, together with the assurance that no mere biologist could possibly have invented the sequence of events which followed.†   (source)
  • His jacket hung on his chair back; his napkin uncrumpled slowly beside his plate, blooming like something out of a time-lapse photography sequence.†   (source)
  • But with this old man it did not end there; under the medicine bags and bundles of rawhide on the walls, he saw layers of old calendars, the sequences of years confused and lost as if occasionally the oldest calendars had fallen or been taken out from under the others and then had been replaced on top of the most recent years.†   (source)
  • To the credit of poetry in our century there must surely be entered in any reckoning his two great sequences of poems entitled "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" and "Meditations in Time of Civil War", the latter of which contains the famous lyric about the bird's nest at his window, where a starling or stare had built in a crevice of the old wall.†   (source)
  • 'Particularly restful on the eyes were the delicate pastel greens of the background to the ballet sequence.'†   (source)
  • She paused, in sequence groping for then finding the right word in French, Polish, German and Russian but totally at sea in English.†   (source)
  • WRITING a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.†   (source)
  • "You would have to do them in sequence, though, or it could get mighty hot," I said.†   (source)
  • Soon their column too was broken into a sequence of irregular puffs.†   (source)
  • This title produced an extraordinary sequence of mental images.†   (source)
  • What is interesting about those speeches when read in sequence is their development.†   (source)
  • It was a perfectly reasonable sequence.†   (source)
  • But according to your very own teachings, this unity and necessary sequence of all things is nevertheless broken in one place, through a small gap, this world of unity is invaded by something alien, something new, something which had not been there before, and which cannot be demonstrated and cannot be proven: these are your teachings of overcoming the world, of salvation.†   (source)
  • Sequences of ideas, notions, insights, truths drifted and sailed freely through her mind, like clouds in the sky, as happened so often before during their nighttime conversations.†   (source)
  • Snatches of popular songs, indecent jokes, bits of books I had read, movie sequences, faces, voices, political issues—I thought I was going mad; all these impressions suspended, as it were, in the solution of the faint nausea produced in me by the heat and liquor.†   (source)
  • The blocks banged down in steady sequence; each barrier a step backward toward the light.†   (source)
  • Utterly agape, he read the four lines again, clockwise in sequence: top, right, bottom, left.†   (source)
  • Earlier, Sophie had rearranged this account number into the Fibonacci sequence.†   (source)
  • You couldn't look at a DNA sequence and predict behavior.†   (source)
  • I think I can trace the sequence of events here.†   (source)
  • They detonated both of them in sequence, just a few seconds apart.†   (source)
  • It took her a while to run up the sequence of events.†   (source)
  • Ed was into the opening sequence of his middle act, the records bouncy ones with good beats.†   (source)
  • Koop stared at the meaningless sequence of pencilled letters.†   (source)
  • What happened then was a slow-motion sequence.†   (source)
  • Time became a sequence of layers for the Duke.†   (source)
  • No one made a move except for a Nipponese tourist who raised her imager and recorded a sequence.†   (source)
  • It was no longer a forward motion: now it was a sequence of movements, up and along, up and along.†   (source)
  • "Yes, ma'am," he replied, activating the sequence.†   (source)
  • There are two techniques I use to prevent the out-of— sequence-reassembly setback.†   (source)
  • It's a little different, seeing the action sequence firsthand.†   (source)
  • Now look away and spend twenty seconds memorizing that sequence before saying them out loud again.†   (source)
  • Daito's log-out sequence had been engaged at the worst possible moment.†   (source)
  • Pretty much the reverse of the sequence I use to stow it.†   (source)
  • Then, next, it is described in terms of its methods: its functions as they occur in sequence.†   (source)
  • Paul depressed the glowing action-sequence switch on his panel.†   (source)
  • Or some other problem in the developmental sequence.†   (source)
  • This is the Fibonacci sequence," she declared, nodding toward the piece of paper in Fache's hand.†   (source)
  • If you speak English, you have about a 50 percent chance of remembering that sequence perfectly.†   (source)
  • It happened so quickly that it was over before I could follow the sequence of events.†   (source)
  • And yet they're all part of the Fibonacci sequence.†   (source)
  • They lower them in sequence, whenever they want to let more Sixers enter the tomb.†   (source)
  • Then the sequence would be repeated, exactly the same way.†   (source)
  • Notice the sequence is made up of four basic compounds-adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine.†   (source)
  • "The scrambled Fibonacci sequence is a clue," Langdon said, taking the printout.†   (source)
  • He wrote the sequence out of order to tell us to apply the same concept to the text.†   (source)
  • It was about initiating a logical sequence of inquiries.†   (source)
  • In the silence, I pondered the sequence of events that had brought us to this point.†   (source)
  • 'You may have your sequence backwards,' said Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • I didn't know the sequence; you didn't tell me.†   (source)
  • Hollow bodies coming in endless sequence.†   (source)
  • But the numbers came in a tangle without sequence.†   (source)
  • He stared out the window, trying to piece together the sequence of events.†   (source)
  • Command sequence: Daedalus Twenty-three.†   (source)
  • After half an hour they had the sequence of events clear.†   (source)
  • Begin thaw sequence now, please, Darren.†   (source)
  • She stopped by a mini wall screen and coded in a sequence.†   (source)
  • "The whole sequence began in 1996," Reilly says.†   (source)
  • Trusting his instinct, he manipulated the bands in the sequence suggested by his observation.†   (source)
  • Just digits onscreen, lining up in perfect sequence.†   (source)
  • I didn't get the sequence of strokes at all!†   (source)
  • But Leo still had to deduce the right sequence to activate this control sphere.†   (source)
  • He moves masterfully through a sequence of fifty-three different steps, slides, and spins.†   (source)
  • He has never forgotten the moment-to-moment sequence of that bloody episode.†   (source)
  • This sequence occurred throughout the day.†   (source)
  • 'You'll talk with his subordinates in whatever sequence is required.†   (source)
  • Jacqueline Lavier had been followed, her death inevitable but out of sequence.†   (source)
  • Command sequence: Daedalus Twenty-three.†   (source)
  • How long do you think that whole sequence took?†   (source)
  • We throw off the detonation sequence by adding one of our own.†   (source)
  • I have the complete sequence back to him.†   (source)
  • What kind of mad scientist came up with that sequence?†   (source)
  • Studying Lucia's note once again, he quickly jotted down a seemingly random sequence of letters.†   (source)
  • Once the tip of the blade came free of the fire, Rhunon turned it over and repeated the sequence.†   (source)
  • Got their addresses as well as names; Wyoh had one sequence which was concentrating on stilyagi.†   (source)
  • At the end of that sequence the fugitive would generally be found.†   (source)
  • She struggled to place the moment into some orderly sequence of time.†   (source)
  • She played back the sequence from zero, the moment the door was opened and the alarm activated.†   (source)
  • The whole "add milk, butter, mix, and stir" sequence was apparently beyond her.†   (source)
  • It's their sequence; it's their shape; it's everything!†   (source)
  • Burton tried to recall the sequence for blood clotting.†   (source)
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