sequel

Example Sentences

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It is the highest-ever debut for a horror film that isn’t a sequel or based on a book, not accounting for inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

He appeared last year as cold-blooded gangster Colorado in crime thriller Caught Stealing alongside Austin Butler, Regina King and Zoë Kravitz; and as Happy Gilmour's eccentric golf caddie Oscar in Adam Sandler's comedy sequel.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

“Rites of the Starling,” the sequel to a bestselling romantasy novel by Devney Perry, topped the list and sold 105,396 copies its first week on the list.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Now, the next adventure of the fierce bounty hunter and his adorable young charge will be the franchise’s first big-screen installment since the sequel trilogy wrapped with “Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

I did not ask what she meant by “all being over,” but I suppose she referred to the expected decease of her mother and the gloomy sequel of funeral rites.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë