Sentence examples for was successively from inspiring English sources

He was successively schoolboy, novice, young priest, housemaster, headmaster, and abbot of Ampleforth Abbey, near York.

The mound at Hisarlik was successively occupied by different cultures from 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1200.

From 1967 to 1992, he was successively the institution's president, chairman and honorary chairman.

An earlier population of hunter gatherers was successively overwhelmed by new arrivals.

Thereafter it was successively a crown colony, a self-governing colony (1856), and a dominion (1907).

First elected to the U.S. House in 1862, he was successively reelected until his death.

But they did not shrink from parading kitsch before a Paris audience that was successively amused and amazed.

Eusebius was, successively, bishop of Berytus and, about 318, bishop of Nicomedia.

He went to China and was successively consul at Shanghai and secretary at Peking.

The strait was successively controlled by the Arabs, the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the British.

His father who bore the same name, was, successively head of the composing rooms of the NY Times, the N.Y.