All 8 Uses
sequence
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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- Let him describe what we have all seen so that it becomes a sequence.†
*sequence = arranged in a specific order
- Yes, the appalling moment has come when Bernard's power fails him and there is no longer any sequence and he sags and twiddles a bit of string and falls silent, gaping as if about to burst into tears.†
- Did he not only wish to continue the sequence of the story which he never stops telling himself?†
- As it is, finding sequences everywhere, I cannot bear the pressure of solitude.†
- The sequence returns; one thing leads to another—the usual order.†
sequence = arranged in a specific order
- I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things.†
- I will go up these steps into the gallery and submit myself to the influence of minds like mine outside the sequence.†
- I am moving too, am becoming involved in the general sequence when one thing follows another and it seems inevitable that the tree should come, then the telegraph-pole, then the break in the hedge.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(sequence) a set of things arranged or happening in a specific order -- often chronological order
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)