succeeding generations
Example Sentences
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His impact on composers of succeeding generations, whether they accept him or oppose him, is indelible.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2024
Together, China’s first dynasties—the Shang, Zhou, and Qin—produced an imperial blueprint for harnessing the power of an agrarian civilization that succeeding generations of Chinese adopted and modified to found their own dynasties.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Charter’s opening words, “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2022
When the damage accumulates over many succeeding generations, we will have had plenty of advance warning.
From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022
I knew, as everyone knows, the true but incomplete statement of the problem—that an original sin of the fathers was being visited on the children of succeeding generations.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
