Sentence examples for is successive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Coming one after the other in a series.
- They had won the title for five successive years.
The differentiation process of the tissue-specific stem cell is successive restriction of these capacities.
It is successive governments that have instituted what one colleague calls an "endless obsession with GCSE results and league tables".
In grasses, the leaves are arranged alternately and in two ranks (distichous); that is, successive leaves arise on opposite sides of the stem, creating two vertical rows of leaves.
Ben Rose, a partner at Hickman and Rose, which specialises in crime and human rights, says: "Some of the laws relate to EU directives, but the bigger issue is successive governments wanting to look tough on crime by rolling out new offences rather than dealing with root causes.
The first is successive dependency.
But it is successive British leaders who have raised populism with respect to the EU to a fine art.
There have been successive tragedies on Everest's Nepalese approach.
In Greece, for example, there have been successive downgrades.
Student: It's successive; you see it, then you don't see it.
But there are successive trios of dancers at the base of the ballet's structure.
Syngamy and meiosis are successive events in a sexual life history.
