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Example sentences for "long succession"

  • A long succession of disasters had reached their disgraceful culmination.

  • The sleepers were arranged in a long succession.

  • The woman was a blowsy creature of middle age, who had had a long succession of still-born children.

  • There was nothing of nobility in their bearing, and you felt that for all of them life was a long succession of petty concerns and sordid thoughts.

  • The weather grew very bad; there was snow and frost, and then a thaw with a long succession of cheerless days, on which walking was a poor amusement.

  • Having in the former part of this work referred the sedimentary strata to a long succession of geological periods, we have now to consider how far the volcanic formations can be classed in a similar chronological order.

  • Hence we are always in danger of regarding as the work of a single era, and the effect of one cause, what has in reality been the result of a variety of distinct agents, during a long succession of geological epochs.

  • Why maliciously seek out facts through a long succession of obscure ages, collecting them together and placing them in a light most calculated to make an impression, and to mislead the ignorant?

  • All parties being agreed as to the general principle, a long succession of Mutiny Bills passed without any discussion, except when some particular article of the military code appeared to require amendment.

  • But that army had sustained a long succession of defeats and disgraces, unredeemed by a single brilliant achievement.

  • Assuming the cone to be a pile of volcanic materials ejected by a long succession of eruptions (a point on which all geologists are agreed), we have to account for the Caldera and the great Barranco.

  • Having referred the sedimentary strata to a long succession of geological periods, we have next to consider how far the volcanic formations can be classed in a similar chronological order.

  • The view from the top is a fine one, with a long succession of barren hills, and the blue waters of the Dead Sea, and the precipices of Moab beyond.

  • Beds of shells and bands of coral were formed upon the more ancient rocks, interrupted with beds of sand and mud; processes many times repeated: and thus, in a long succession of ages, were the deposits of the upper series completed.

  • By the regular and tranquil repetition of this phenomenon, continued during a long succession of ages, this abundant deposit of rock-salt has been formed, which occupies so important a position in the Secondary rocks.

  • If a long succession is required, a sufficient number should be potted every two or three weeks to the end of the year.

  • The wheel at last was turned, and its revolutions brought me a long succession of sorrows and disappointments.

  • The American fell then into other hands, and for a long succession of years was editorially sustained by one who had often previously enriched its columns with his lucubrations.

  • The soil would have then been much in the prairie condition, and would have needed nothing but grazing for a long succession of years to make the resemblance perfect.

  • On both sides the road, in front of the arcades was a long succession of stalls, where everything relating to domestic life was sold.

  • This was the first of a long succession of miracles.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long succession" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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