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Example sentences for "rapid succession"

  • The old baroness drank like a porter, the viscountess stuffed herself with cakes, and the languorous Grandcourt swallowed two glasses of punch in rapid succession, exclaiming that it was not strong enough.

  • They sprang to their feet, shouting and threatening, and during the quarrel Dubourg's four friends deemed it prudent to disappear in rapid succession.

  • Many of the shops in Oxford Street had their roofs damaged or their fronts blown out, while a huge block of flats in Great Russell Street was practically demolished by three shells striking in rapid succession.

  • Then, as although all the guns of that particular battery had converged in order to destroy our treasure-house of art and antiquity, shell after shell crashed into the place in rapid succession.

  • The house upon the roof of which I had, earlier in the day, taken up my position, was struck by two shells in rapid succession, and simply demolished, over forty brave men losing their lives in the terrible catastrophe.

  • In that country great events had, during several months, followed one another in rapid succession.

  • As the season for military operations approached, the solemn appeals of injured nations to the God of battles came forth in rapid succession.

  • During the week which followed his triumphal entry into Dublin, messengers charged with evil tidings arrived from England in rapid succession.

  • A gigantic figure with shirt open to the waist, whom Tournay recognized as the blacksmith of La Thierry, was dealing blow after blow in rapid succession with a huge sledge-hammer.

  • Once inside the drawing-room, which had been transformed into an impromptu ball-room by taking up the rugs and moving the piano to one end of it, introductions followed in rapid succession.

  • After changing their minds several times in rapid succession to the infinite disgust of the waitress, the sextette finally made unanimous decision for a new concoction in the way of a fruit lemonade, known as Sargent Nectar.

  • Once the hop had fairly begun, dance followed dance in rapid succession.

  • The sadness of her song chickadee-dee, chickadee-dee, was evident, but she uttered these words in rapid succession.

  • Warrington stated, that a few days after assisting at an autopsy of puerperal peritonitis, in which he laded out the contents of the abdominal cavity with his hands, he was called upon to deliver three women in rapid succession.

  • And so it has happened to me and to every person, often and often, to be hit in rapid succession by these twinned facts or thoughts, as if they were linked like chain-shot.

  • The Manchus soon had some success in this quarter, but the other provincial governors now rose in rapid succession, repudiated the Manchus, and declared themselves independent.

  • After his death in 1294, grandsons and great-grandsons of his followed each other in rapid succession on the throne; not one of them was of any personal significance.

  • It is true that there were five dynasties in rapid succession in North China; but at the same time there were ten other dynasties in South China.

  • The death of Lady Drogheda released the poet from this distress; but a series of disasters, in rapid succession, broke down his health, his spirits, and his fortune.

  • But it was decreed that the temper of that strong mind should be tried by both extremes of fortune in rapid succession.

  • Events deeply painful to a heart so kind as that of Frances followed each other in rapid succession.

  • But disasters, following one another in rapid succession, rapidly dispelled the illusions of national vanity.

  • The various shots rang out in rapid succession.

  • The weapon was passed over, and Dave blazed away twice in rapid succession.

  • Not to hit his chum, he ran around to the wolf's side and blazed away twice in rapid succession.

  • Regular alternations of long passages forte and piano were formerly the custom, but now we have a rapid succession of very varied shades, fortissimo and pianissimo being also brought into use.

  • A rapid succession of operas by Weisse and Hiller, which were received with unanimous approbation, and spread with incredible rapidity, soon established a definite type of German operetta, and raised up a host of imitators.

  • Occasionally the voice part is more declamatory than melodious, and the effect is provided for by a rapid succession of striking harmonies.

  • A long train of concubines, and a rapid succession of wives, among whom was a vestal virgin, ravished by force from her sacred asylum, were insufficient to satisfy the impotence of his passions.

  • A rapid succession of monarchs had arisen and fallen in the provinces of Gaul.

  • From these he made glass positives and projected them on a screen in rapid succession so that the picture appeared to move.

  • These could be fired singly or in rapid succession in the space of two and a half seconds.

  • Looking through a peephole in this machine the pictures were flashed before the eye in rapid succession.

  • Adventures follow each other in rapid succession in a manner that only our author, Mr. Young, can describe.

  • With a quick motion, Vasco leaned over the edge of the seat and fired three times in rapid succession at the tires of Jerry's machine.

  • Then, recovering his nerve, he raised the rifle, took quick aim and fired three shots in rapid succession.

  • At about the same moment the Pensacola engaged the batteries on the east bank, and the other vessels coming up in rapid succession, the works were quickly silenced.

  • He had barely time to reach the Hindman before the explosions took place in rapid succession; then the flames burst out and the vessel was soon consumed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rapid 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:
    cold blood; ever since; flesh foods; ground level; head white; moved over; nursery governess; quite sure; rapid development; rapid fire; rapid glance; rapid growth; rapid increase; rapid march; rapid movement; rapid pace; rapid pulse; rapid rate; rapid stream; rapidly increasing; small chapel; small house; subordinate clause; unrequited toil; well grown; yonder town