Sample Sentences for
succession
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succession as in:  a succession of events

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She survived a succession of catastrophes.
succession = series (one after the other)
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    She was forced to resign after a succession of scandals.
    succession = series (one after another)
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    The Beatles went through a succession of drummers before asking Ringo Starr to join them.
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    If a long succession of Hogwarts headmasters and headmistresses haven't found the thing—  (source)
    succession = series or sequence (one after another)
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    He heard a dial tone, then the tone of the numbers being automatically dialed in rapid succession.  (source)
    succession = sequence (one after another)
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    There are here no procurators who regulate successions beforehand.†  (source)
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    Isaac threw the last three eggs in quick succession and Gus then guided him back toward the car.  (source)
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    It was not alone all those thirty years which she did not know, but all those successions of thirty years before that which had put that stain either on his white blood or his black blood, whichever you will, and which killed him.†  (source)
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    Indignation, rage, indecision, agitation and much more crossed his face in rapid succession.  (source)
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    Thus interrupted, Miss Jellyby became silent and walked moodily on at my side while I admired the long successions and varieties of streets, the quantity of people already going to and fro, the number of vehicles passing and repassing, the busy preparations in the setting forth of shop windows and the sweeping out of shops, and the extraordinary creatures in rags secretly groping among the swept-out rubbish for pins and other refuse.  (source)
    successions = sequences
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    Sam was born in 1959, and four other children, Stacy, Shawna, Shelly, and Shannon, followed in quick succession.  (source)
    succession = sequence (one after another)
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    The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.  (source)
    successions = series (one group after another)
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    They were perfectly content with a succession of B's and an occasional A or C. They were strong and fast runners and good at games, and when cracks were made about anybody in the Murry family, they weren't made about Sandy and Dennys.  (source)
    succession = series (one after another)
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    And yet it is wonderful to see how this false notion of pleasure bewitches many who delight themselves with the fancy of their nobility, and are pleased with this conceit—that they are descended from ancestors who have been held for some successions rich, and who have had great possessions; for this is all that makes nobility at present.†  (source)
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succession as in:  presidential line of succession

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    The Speaker of the House is second in the line of the U.S. presidential line of succession.
    succession = replacement
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    The Reverend Mother dare not become involved in the succession.  (source)
    succession = replacement (of someone taking a job or position after another person leaves it)
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    When Soso breathed his last, there was no plan of succession, no obvious designee.  (source)
    succession = replacement (of someone to take a job or position after another person leaves it)
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    The line of succession rightfully ends with her.  (source)
    succession = filling a job or position with a new person after another person leaves it
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    I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,  (source)
    successions = people taking over the job or position of those who were there before them
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    The succession of his mistresses was so rapid that it ceased to be gossip.  (source)
    succession = replacement
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    Lastly, I would carefully record every action and event of consequence, that happened in the public, impartially draw the characters of the several successions of princes and great ministers of state, with my own observations on every point.  (source)
    successions = people taking positions no longer filled by another
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    Rippleton Holabird was elected full Director now, in succession to Gottlieb, and he sought to use Martin as the prize exhibit of the Institute.  (source)
    succession = replacement
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    With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces turn'd sideways or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me.  (source)
    Successions = instances of people replacing those who were there before them
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    Always before, it has been the way of succession, but times have changed.  (source)
    succession = filling a job or position with a new person after another person leaves it
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    The time she was removed from succession to the throne came back to Redd with the full force of its heart-stopping gall… The ever wise Queen Theodora announced that she could not allow such an unruly daughter to have queenly power.  (source)
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    It is a mystical estate, an apostolic succession, from only begetter to only begotten.  (source)
    succession = replacement (of one person with another)
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    How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark?  (source)
    succession = replacement of the king
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