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Example sentences for "consecutive"

Lexicographically close words:
consecrates; consecrating; consecration; consecrations; consecution; consecutively; consecutiveness; conseil; conseille; conseiller
  1. In the opinion of Charles Thomson, who was Secretary of Congress for fifteen consecutive years, no subsequent national Assembly during the war could compare with the first in point of talent and purity.

  2. The draft of a declaration of independence was reported at the same time, and for three consecutive days it was debated by paragraphs seriatim.

  3. On the 10th of November, the enemy opened their batteries on land and water, and for six consecutive days poured a storm of bombs and round shot upon the devoted fortification.

  4. Five consecutive nights, she designed and modelled until the watchman's midnight cry drove her from work, and at three o'clock in the morning of the sixth day, she finished.

  5. For eight consecutive days, the fatal snow fell with but few short intermissions.

  6. Let me see how the case stands in respect of dates and the consecutive order of events.

  7. Yes," he drawls, and hazards three consecutive words.

  8. But to return to our narrative in the consecutive order of events.

  9. The Resurrection Man greedily seized the manuscript, and began to scrutinise each consecutive page.

  10. All the clothing, linen, bedding, and other articles were marked with consecutive numerals in black paint, from No.

  11. The consecutive and rapid promotions of Lord Dunstable and Cholmondeley were not unnoticed by me.

  12. The first, brought out in 1784, was received with an enthusiasm which could be contented only with forty-nine consecutive performances.

  13. Did not our ancestors at the time of Hucbald relish consecutive Fifths and Octaves as an harmonious accompaniment to a melody?

  14. There are no canonic imitations, not the least trace of counterpoint, but plenty of consecutive fifths and octaves!

  15. Hence we conclude that death ideas and stupor are consecutive phenomena in the same fundamental process.

  16. Bodily inactivity is present in all degrees, and in some forty consecutive cases was recognizable in every one.

  17. From this we may deduce that the stupor reaction is consequent on ideas of death, or, to put it more guardedly, that death ideas and stupor are consecutive phenomena in the same fundamental process.

  18. In a survey of thirty-six consecutive cases of definite stupor, literal death ideas were found in all but one case.

  19. Thirty-five out of thirty-six consecutive cases at one time or another referred literally to death.

  20. Mr. Leonard Huxley has given the world many extremely valuable and interesting letters, all characteristic, and he has connected them by a well-written consecutive narrative which is sufficient to weave them together.

  21. These have emanated, like immense waves of light, from the divine centre, and, as ten consecutive zones of Sephiroth, form the universe.

  22. The others form a consecutive series, in the following order: Richard III.

  23. He was not a consecutive thinker, like Dryden, and cared less about the truth of his thought than about the pointedness of its expression.

  24. For fourteen consecutive days the Senate did not adjourn, but from time to time took recesses.

  25. He was the oldest Senator in consecutive service.

  26. Leonardo himself or have been lost--it is certainly strange that nothing whatever exists to inform us as to his life and doings in Milan earlier than the consecutive series of manuscripts which begin in the year 1489.

  27. Is not this sufficient to prove that it was only in quite exceptional cases that the writer intended the consecutive pages to remain connected, when he should, at last, carry out the often planned arrangement of his writings?

  28. This is one of the very rare instances in which one subject is treated in a consecutive series of notes, all in one MS.

  29. This is not so monstrous as pretending to do what "God manifest in the flesh" alone could do--to fast for forty consecutive days.

  30. But the most curious privilege of the cathedral of Seville is the so-called dance de los seises, which takes place every evening at dusk for eight consecutive days after the festival of Corpus Domini.

  31. To complete the carnage their bodies were for four consecutive days exposed to the mockery of the troops marching toward the front.

  32. He was lying exhausted beside his machine gun which he had carried on his shoulder from summit to summit, from hill to hill, for seven consecutive days, until he had reached the plain.

  33. It is of the utmost importance to seize the artery perfectly, and to make the stated number of twists, as otherwise the security against the danger of consecutive hemorrhage will not be perfect.

  34. For several consecutive hours perhaps he retreats to his basket or his bed.

  35. It will be seen that there are no less than seven consecutive 5's, and all the variation seems to have disappeared.

  36. If for Two consecutive Sessions of the Parliament he fails to give his Attendance in the Senate: (2.

  37. V The incidents of our flight in Lord Roberts B do not arrange themselves in any consecutive order.

  38. I soon engaged in school teaching in Ogden City--moved my family there and remained one year, then returned to Brigham City, where I followed the same profession for several consecutive years.

  39. After all this is seen to day by day, where is the time and strength for comprehensive and consecutive work of a more directly evangelistic and teaching type?

  40. The imperial prediction was justified by consecutive performances of one hundred nights.

  41. The bold innovations, the powerful situations, the daring methods of the composer, astonished and delighted Paris, and the work was performed more than a hundred consecutive times.

  42. Three hundred consecutive performances did not satisfy Paris; and at Berlin and Frankfort, as well as in Italy, it was hailed with acclamation.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consecutive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adjacent; after; attendant; connected; consecutive; consistent; continuous; ensuing; following; joined; junior; later; lineal; linear; orderly; ordinal; posterior; progressive; sequential; serial; subsequent; succeeding; successive; tight; trailing; uninterrupted