successively

Example Sentences

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The Commerce Department usually publishes three sets of quarterly GDP, each successively more accurate, but Thursday’s update—the second—will serve as the final third-quarter pass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

That success made Real the first team from any nation to lift the trophy three times successively in the Champions League era.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

Still, I wheeled around and watched a column of spirited Australians being successively and violently deposited into mud and water.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2024

Pumpkins have come a long way since then, as Indigenous American communities carefully adapted the wild pumpkin into successively bigger and better-tasting varieties.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas