How to use "successive" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "successive" in popular movie and book plots

  • It is the homeland of Olympias, who is daughter and sister of two of its successive kings.  - Fire from Heaven
  • Huo's fame spreads with successive bouts against other foreign fighters.  - Fearless (2006 film)
  • The film largely consists of a series of flashbacks in which Francesca talks about her life, removing successive "veils" to recover memories.  - The Seventh Veil
  • The film is divided into four successive and clearly labeled chapters.  - Midaq Alley (film)
  • While at first it seems a Utopia, successive chapters gradually reveal the arbitrary and cruel rules that govern the lives of the athletes.  - W, or the Memory of Childhood
  • This module is divided into two separate adventures, which can be played as successive scenarios.  - The Gem and the Staff
  • Each successive event is clinically dissected and analysed almost as though in slow-motion.  - Bomber (novel)
  • The prize doubles with each successive question, in the style of the 1940s radio show The $64 Question.  - Champagne for Caesar
  • The player's successive victories do not impress Eddie.  - Need for Speed: Underground
  • In fact, the game will often use exactly the same audio track to say successive sentences, as also occurs in.  - Jade Empire
  • Each act takes place on successive Winter days in Paris.  - Eleutheria (play)
  • When Conklin begins pressing him to remember his past, Bourne recalls his attempt to assassinate Wombosi through successive flashbacks.  - The Bourne Identity (2002 film)
  • Still suffering from successive threats of losing one another, Angel and Buffy confess feelings each has been trying to suppress.  - Surprise (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Each successive tale tells of further breakdown of urban society.  - City (novel)
  • Team Shaolin enters the open cup competition in Hong Kong, where they chalk up successive and often ridiculous one-sided victories.  - Shaolin Soccer
  • With his own views on theology, Lewis goes on to describe and discuss sex, love, pride, gluttony, and war in successive letters.  - The Screwtape Letters

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