Sentence examples for a sequence of things from inspiring English sources

And he gripes that in foreign cities the traveler feels "obliged to admire a sequence of things which have no connection to one another besides a geographic one," that "we are asked to be curious about Gothic architecture on one street and then promptly fascinated by Etruscan archaeology on the next".

In other cases a person might not have a certain state of affairs directly in his power, but there might be a sequence of things, <p, q, r, s> such that he has p directly in his power, and if he were to bring about p, he would then have q directly in his power, and if … he would have s directly in his power.

There is a sequence of things that happen on every flight: the door closes, the engines start, the plane taxis out, takes off, climbs, cruises, descends, and lands.

The answer to the question "what are things like by nature?" is given by a sequence of three epithets; things are said to be adiaphora and astathmêta and anepikrita.

There's really an endless sequence of things.

If someone is bedridden at home and wanted to communicate with hand gestures to turn on the TV or call the doctor, hand positions could mean different things and a sequence of hand positions could mean different things.

She's made a sequence of bad choices, sweeping things under the rug.

Instead, in the next minute, the Friars called for a full-court press that sparked a 9-0 run and used a sequence of plays to turn things in their favor.

They won't require you to press a sequence of buttons to make things happen, but they will work alongside you in unobtrusive ways, responding to caresses, waves or verbal commands.

But then there's the thematic line as well, and that doesn't keep exactly in step with the other, so the challenge is to have a narrative where you can stop the sequence of things and have a thematic break from that and then return.

A sequence-of-tenses problem.