How To Use Successively In A Sentence

By 1134, two of Sancho's sons had successively acceded to both thrones and died without heirs, leaving only one son left - Ramiro, Bishop of Barbastro-Roda.
How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr. Jackson's last "Letter," Dr. Holyoke, a good representative of sterling old-fashioned medical art, counted them with opium and Peruvian bark as his chief remedies; with the moderately expectant practice of Louis; the blood-letting "coup sur coup" of Bouillaud; the contra-stimulant method of Rasori and his followers; the anti-irritant system of Broussais, with its leeching and gum-water; I have heard from our own students of the simple opium practice of the renowned German teacher, Oppolzer; and now I find the medical community brought round by the revolving cycle of opinion to that same old plan of treatment which John Brown taught in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the last century, and Miner and Tully fiercely advocated among ourselves in the early years of the present. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
And the issue is this -- starting from the contemptuous defiance of the scriptural doctrine upon the necessity of making provision for poverty as an indispensable element in civil communities, the economy of the age has lowered its tone by graduated descents, in each one successively of the four last _decennia_. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
The paper was successively folded over or covered so that each participant could not see what his or her predecessor had done.

They enact the roles they have imbibed from their forefathers acting successively over seven generations.
STRENGTH AND HOW TO OBTAIN IT which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility. Ulysses
Bijerinck disproved this theory when he showed that the sap could successively transmit the fully virulent disease through a large number of plant generations.
At an advanced age he became a priest and enjoyed the patronage of Innocent XI, who made him successively referendary Utriusque Signaturae, auditor of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
He then joined Imperial Oil Limited where he made his mark in successively more responsible assignments until he gained the Presidency in 1960. The Incredible Resource Battle
The unidentifiable objects mouldering in the fridge were successively replaced by jars of pickled onions, Cheddar cheese and Stilton.
The process flourished less than two decades before "ambrotype," the next of many successively faster and cheaper photographic processes, began to replace it. Merced Sun-Star: front
This concept has been applied successively to painting, architecture and sculpture.
It'successively builds a sequence of lobes.
He was successively senior lecturer and professor. Times, Sunday Times
Five fireplaces, one above the other, rose up within the floorless keep, each successively smaller. SANDS OF TIME
By marrying successively two second cousins, who were themselves heiresses of the same grocery business, he consolidated his fortune to the benefit of his collection, since both marriages were childless.
In 1960 he was recruited by the publishing house, where he became successively editorial director and managing director.
On entering the diplomatic service of the Holy See he was appointed by Gregory XVI successively secular prelate (1830), referendary of the superior law court, assessor of the criminal tribunal, delegate to Orvieto, Viterbo, and Macerata, canon of St. Peter's (made deacon, 1840). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- Successively loosen, saw-off and drive-in again the wedges, one after another. Chapter 8
But were he to introduce me to one, and give me an opportunity of shaking hands with him, of conversing with him, of observing his features, etc.; and were he then to introduce me to another, in like manner, with the privilege of shaking hands again with the first, before my introduction to the third; and were he thus to introduce me to them all successively, I might form _twenty-six acquaintances with one introduction_. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes
On the same text Dr. Abbott says: "The term Canaan was the older title of the country, and the inhabitants were successively termed Canaanites and Phoenicians, as the inhabitants of England were successively call Brittons and Englishmen. Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix
He proposed successively doubling the number of sides of a regular polygon inscribed in a circle so that the difference in areas would eventually become exhausted.
But it may be doubled and multipled in succession — that is to say, that in one act of deglutition we may experience successively a second and even a third sensation, each of which gradually becomes more weak, and which are described by the words after-taste, bouquet, or fragrance. Sing for your supper
After incubation the agarose was washed successively with dioxane solution, dioxane, distilled water and ethanol.
Waves can bounce back and forth across the central region , becoming successively amplified — a cosmic echo chamber.
The powdered tuber was extracted successively with dichloromethane, methanol and water at room temperature. Chapter 7
Imputing an end to an action is of a fictional nature in the sense that it is not free from the subjective valuation that conditions the researcher's thematization of a certain subject matter out of “an infinite multiplicity of successively and coexistently emerging and disappearing events” [Weber 1904/1949, Asthmatic
The negatives are then exposed successively on film coated with sensitized pigmented gelatin - Cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
For though the Jews have such a cabala (called gematry) as this which Mr. White describes; yet that cabala which is argued in this instance, and which our Saviour reproves in the pharisees by the name of tradition, is quite another thing, and among the Jewish writers known by the name of the "unwritten, or oral law;" which they say was delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai, and by him conveyed to Aaron and Joshua, and the elders, and successively delivered down from one age to another; and at last by Rabbi Jehudah compiled into one volume which they call Mishna, or deute'rosis. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10.
He proceeds to draw each color-plate successively, at all times adhering closely to the red chalk outlines, filling in with tusche where full strength of the color is required and using lithographic crayon or the stipple process to reproduce the various gradations of this color in order to secure the full color value of each printing. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
He explained that alcohol is “a loathsome excretion of a living organism”; that it will make a civilized young man successively “become semicivilized, semisavage, savage, and, at last, below the brute”; that “nearly two-thirds of all the money in circulation in America in the course of a year” passed through the grasping hands of the liquor trust. LAST CALL
My father had brought up a young person, who had been his footman, valet, secretary, and in short successively all in all. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
There may be said to be three leading phases which the word successively presents, three steps in its history. English Past and Present
By the early 860s he was requesting a bishop successively from the papacy and the Byzantine emperor, and the latter démarche elicited the mission headed by Constantine-Cyril and Methodius.
Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, and Byzantine Greeks successively ruled the area.
Since the 1950s one major shock and two major aftershocks have shaken and cleaved the American religious landscape, successively thrusting a large portion of one generation of Americans in a secular direction, then in reaction thrusting a different group of the population in a conservative religious direction, and finally in counterreaction to that first aftershock, sending yet another generation of Americans in a more secular direction. American Grace
Deglacial interval yr represents the conceivable time range over which the paleoglacier deglaciated from successively less extensive end moraine positions. Some Geologists at Quelccaya « Climate Audit
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press ... On The Art of Reading
Since the 1950s one major shock and two major aftershocks have shaken and cleaved the American religious landscape, successively thrusting a large portion of one generation of Americans in a secular direction, then in reaction thrusting a different group of the population in a conservative religious direction, and finally in counterreaction to that first aftershock, sending yet another generation of Americans in a more secular direction. American Grace
The different chambers being opened successively, every individual was effectually silenced by the sound of one cabalistical word, which was no other than Waistcoat. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
After the outbreak of the First World War, he served successively in the Foreign Office's western, war, and contraband departments.
The transitional period has been successively extended and is still in force today.
Joined the Guardian in 1963, and served successively as deputy editor, managing editor and City editor until 1974.
He became an instructor in the Medical Department of this University in 1919, and became successively assistant professor, associate professor and finally professor of dermatology and syphilology in 1934, and founded the Board of Visitors minutes
The traditional method of making homeopathic dilutions is successively diluting the ‘active ingredient’ 1 to 10, and repeating.
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, until it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press. Religio Medici
“The funny mistress of five or six accents,” Jane regaled them all with the story of her dinner party, successively taking the part of a lecherous old Oxonian who was trying to pinch her bottom, a drunk Ceylonese official, and a dry old colonial widow with a lorgnette. A Covert Affair
In general, the older rocks crop out farthest inland, and successively younger rocks are exposed coastward.
During these days, or forty at Medina, or a few more at Babylon and Byblos, the stars of the Husbandman successively sank out of sight, during the _crepusculum_ or short-lived morning twilight of those Southern climes. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
The differences in logo transformed mass values between successively sized species within a guild are the size ratio data.
That might have been unfair — she remembered how her husband, Claud, had sweated to get Koestler out of jail in Spain, only to be rewarded with apostasy — but in his last two decades Koestler abandoned every kind of scruple and objectivity and became successively bewitched by “theories” of levitation, ESP, telepathy, and UFOs. The Zealot
The addition of a codetta is almost indispensable, and frequently two or more appear, growing successively shorter, and generally repeated. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition
Since the championship began in 1987, they have finished successively in ninth, seventh and fifth position.
Timor, Baton Island, and the delightful Sauva Island, were successively passed; and finally, upon the 16th "Frimaire," the western extremity of the south-western coast of New Holland, which was discovered by Leuwin in 1622, was sighted. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
` ` I was successively afflicted by lethargies and fevers, by opposite tendencies to a consumptive and dropsical habit, by a contraction of my nerves, a fistula in my eye, and the bite of a dog, most vehemently suspected of madness. Through the Magic Door
We know a number of things successively when taken one at a time, which we know all at once if we know them in a unity: thus we can know the parts in the whole, or see different things in a mirror.
Since the championship began in 1987, they have finished successively in ninth, seventh and fifth position.
After from three to five minutes of this faradization, the surface board may be successively applied for a minute or two each to the arms, abdomen, pectoral and dorsal muscles. The Electric Bath
The apparition of Catherine Seyton, which the page had let loose in the first moment of astonishment, vanished in darkness; but the plash of oars was heard, and, in a second or two, five or six harquebuses and a falconet were fired from the battlements of the castle successively, as if levelled at some object on the water. The Abbot
Higher-order jackknife estimates lead to successively greater reductions in the bias of the estimates of N d, but at the cost of increasing sampling variance.
Have successively held the posts of unseal technician of plant of empty cent facility, engineer, assistant factory director.
Each of the couples, after the common involutions and evolutions, successively whirls round in a circle, till all are in motion; and the dance seems intended to shew how emigration catches, till a whole neighbourhood is set afloat. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
The people who settled the town called successively Terminus, Marthasville and Atlanta, were a pushy people. Gone with the Wind
The elevation of his patron to the highest dignity of the empire, of course opened to Kara-Mustapha the road to fortune and preferment -- from his first post of deputy to the _meer-akhor_, or master of the horse, he was promoted to the rank of pasha of two tails -- and after holding the governments successively of Silistria and Diarbekr was nominated capitan-pasha in 1662 by his brother-in-law Ahmed; but exchanged that appointment in the following year for the office of kaimakam, in which capacity he was left in charge of the capital on the departure of the vizir to the army in Hungary. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
Any other matryoshka Tara had seen had been the same: six or eight successively smaller nested dolls, all depicting idyllic country girls in cheerful colors. Rogue Oracle
He was successively senior lecturer and professor. Times, Sunday Times
The three tellers read each ballot successively, and the third one reads the name aloud.
Such changes must be slow, for the changes in the universe are very slow; but just as these slow changes become important, when we look at results after long periods of action, as we do when we perceive the alterations of the earth's surface during geological epochs; so the parallel changes in animal form become more and more striking, in proportion as the time they have been going on is great; as we see when we compare our living animals with those which we disentomb from each successively older geological formation. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
In instances where the organs are formed successively in spiral order, we meet with such changes as median prolification, petalody, and phyllody. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
From 1908, railed electric buses, railless electric buses and power-driven buses appeared successively, ushering in a period of prosperous transportation.
Put successively certain proportion 99.99% gold granular, potassium cyanide and purified water into electrolytic reactor to do electrolytic dissolve react.
But its huge clocks had successively knelled three hours after midnight, and all continued still and silent as the grave. Quentin Durward
During World War II, his hometown was successively occupied by Italians, Germans, and insurgent Communists.
The three or four cases which successively covered the cartonage were ornamented in like manner with painting and gilding, and the whole was enclosed in a sarcophagus of wood or stone, profusely charged with painting or sculpture. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
The superficial layers consist of the following: (a) Fibers which spring from the tendon of the conus arteriosus and sweep downward and toward the left across the anterior longitudinal sulcus and around the apex of the heart, where they pass upward and inward to terminate in the papillary muscles of the left ventricle; those arising from the upper half of the tendon of the conus arteriosus pass to the anterior papillary muscle, those from the lower half to the posterior papillary muscle and the papillary muscles of the septum. (b) Fibers which arise from the right atrioventricular ring and run diagonally across the diaphragmatic surface of the right ventricle and around its right border on to its costosternal surface, where they dip beneath the fibers just described, and, crossing the anterior longitudinal sulcus, wind around the apex of the heart and end in the posterior papillary muscle of the left ventricle. (c) Fibers which spring from the left atrioventricular ring, and, crossing the posterior longitudinal sulcus, pass successively into the right ventricle and end in its papillary muscles. V. Angiology. 4b. The Heart
This, I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by Transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved Copy at the Press. Religio Medici
The butanol extract was successively refluxed for 20 min. each with ethyl acetate, acetone and ethanol. Chapter 7
Fuel grade ethyl alcohol and biodiesel are now to be developed successively with lower cost orientation.
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press. XI. Of Selection
Successively, ingestion, food transport to the processing teeth, chewing and bolus formation, and swallowing can be recognized.
Thus I have been led to recognise species as exemplifying the continuous operation of natural law, or secondary cause; and that not only successively but progressively; "from the first embodiment of the vertebrate idea under its old ichthyic vestment until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the human form. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
In the course of the 20th century, science successively named electrons, protons, neutrons, and quarks.
Most had been on Everest for more than a month, hauling gear to the base camp and then furnishing successively higher temporary camps along the glacial valley known as the Western Cwm (pronounced "coom"). High Risk
After these came the unfortunate Nicephorus; his looks were those of a man half-dead from the terror of immediate dissolution, and what he possessed of remaining attention, was turned successively to two black-stoled monks, who were anxiously repeating religious passages to him alternately from the Greek scripture, and the form of devotion adopted by the court of Constantinople. Count Robert of Paris
For example, many pioneer trees exhibit orthotropic (vertically oriented) shoots that successively produce leaves in spiral or decussate phyllotaxy.
Hereafter, the church was successively impropriated by Down-to-South Cadre Training Team, Nenjiang Provincial Committee CCP Party School and Beiman Construction Engineering Company, etc.
Some poems play frequently enjambed lines against end-stopped stanzas; others build up successively stronger enjambments in order to emphasise one big stop.
He completed his studies in Budapest and then worked successively with the pharmacologist, G. Mansfeld at Pozsony, with Armin von Albert Szent-Györgyi - Biography
The young medusa, before it attains its destined condition of maturity, successively resembles, but never becomes, a polygastrian, a rotifer, and a bryozoon. "-- p. 112. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'
He was promoted successively to brigadier general and major general. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
Severe flogging with the bamboo, rattan, cudgel, and knotted whip successively, is one of the most usual means of extorting confession; and when death results from the process, the magistrate reports that the criminal has died of sickness, and in the few cases in which there may be reason to dread investigation, the administration of a bribe to the deceased man's friends insures silence. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
Following the decline of the Romans, the Vandals, Visigoths, and Byzantine Greeks successively set up their own empires.
This concept has been applied successively to painting, architecture and sculpture.
Albertine might indeed exist in my memory only in the state in which she had successively appeared to me in the course of her life, that is to say subdivided according to a series of fractions of time, my mind, reestablishing unity in her, made her a single person, and it was upon this person that I sought to bring a general judgment to bear, to know whether she had lied to me, whether she loved women, whether it was in order to be free to associate with them that she had left me. The Sweet Cheat Gone
At last an initial-boundary value problem was considered and the numerical experiment demonstrated that the linear sinusoidal wave would successively evolve non-linearly into conoidal wave.
Rocket can be successively sown to provide a leafy injection of pepper to your salads and is ideal for a partially shaded spot.
This concept has been applied successively to painting, architecture and sculpture.
Peats will in situ change successively to lignite, to bituminous coal, and eventually to anthracite.
In this example mutations accrue successively, starting with the most beneficial single mutation.
On the same text Dr. Abbott says: "The term Canaan was the older title of the country and the inhabitants were successively termed Canaanites and Phoenicians; as the inhabitants of England were successively called Britons or Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
But while in the work of Dionysius the collection of conciliary canons remained unchanged, that of the decretals was successively increased; it continued to incorporate letters of the different popes till about the middle of the eighth century when Adrian I gave (774) the collection of Dionysius to the future Emperor Charlemagne as the canonical book of the Roman Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Seeking her hand for his son-in-law Maximilian, the emperor Diocletian sent two of his officers successively to negotiate the marriage.
The three components of Deng Xiaoping Theory interpenetrate and push ahead successively, thus instituting a more perfect scientific system.
Tale: saves hero successively from a falling tree, a falling doorway, and a serpent, but is turned into a stone for eight years for licking the blood of the serpent from heroine's breast, and is eventually restored to life by hero's child. Tales of the Punjab
This slug is then followed successively by varying quantities of Diesel Fuel, Kerosene, other intermediate products, ordinary grade Gasolene, high octane, premium and Aviation Gasolenes, each succeeding product pushing the others on ahead in the line. Pipe LinesCanada and Elsewhere
They have succeeded at the Paris Opera Ballet inner competition 3 times: to become successively coryphées, sujets and then premiers danseurs.
Diana won five championships in women's high jump successively in the five years.
At every two feet which the hole gained in depth they successively withdrew the blocks.
In his description of the manner in which these forms cohere and successively unfold, he introduces one of the basic concepts of higher space thought; namely, that in the "descent of forms" from space to space, that which in the higher exists all together -- that is, _simultaneously_ -- can only manifest itself in the lower piecemeal -- that is, _successively_. Four-Dimensional Vistas
There are three forms of this sacrament, also called sacramental orders, namely diaconate, priesthood and episcopate. they are not, however, three sacraments, but only one sacrament that is separately administered with three successively higher sacramental effects. Latest Articles
The verse is better than that of Ercilla's "Araucana"; it treats successively of the deeds of the principal Spaniards who distinguished themselves in America, beginning with Columbus, and is an invaluable source for the colonial history of northern South The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
The iron, prepared previously in long thin rods, the ends of which were sharpened with the file, having been introduced into the largest hole of the drawplate, was drawn out by the beam which wound it round itself, to a length of twenty-five or thirty feet, then unrolled, and the same operation was performed successively through the holes of a less size. The Mysterious Island
Six subsequent landscapes become successively more reductive, as both the fiver and the horizon are eliminated from view.
All these concepts have been applied, successively, to prehistoric cave paintings, with different but always arbitrary results.
A conspectus of his doctrines is given in the Syntax, which deals mainly with article, pronoun, verb, preposition, and adverb, successively.
As we climbed into the hills, each country road became successively poorer and civilization more remote.
Q. Fabius Maximus and M. Valerius Corvus were successively interreges, and the latter held the consular elections. The History of Rome, Vol. II
During the twelfth century the sculptural decoration, manuscript illumination, stone towers on churches and stained glass were all successively proscribed.
Joined the Guardian in 1963, and served successively as deputy editor, managing editor and City editor until 1974.
Harding commenced by manufacturing a drawplate, that is to say, a plate of steel, pierced with conical holes of different sizes, which would successively bring the wire to the wished-for tenacity. The Mysterious Island
In instances where the organs are formed successively in spiral order, we meet with such changes as median prolification, petalody, and phyllody. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The developing and changing process of dandyism in Europe in 19th century was a process in which aesthetic judging factors were successively enhanced in this movement.
Bede and other sources mention a series of over-kings, originating from various kingdoms but successively wielding some sort of lordship over all or most of the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
Obtain It_ which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility. Ulysses
Fuel grade ethyl alcohol and biodiesel are now to be developed successively with lower cost orientation.
During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain.
This concept has been applied successively to painting, architecture and sculpture.
He was promoted successively to brigadier general and major general. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
If we get to the point where we can make the offspring viable and fertile, then what I think we should do is attempt to cross lions with successively smaller felines until we create a male housecat with a mane.
Serial processing refers to cognitive operations carried out successively.
The house was renamed Bonaparte Mansion when it was owned by Louis XV and Louis XVI successively when they acted as emperors.
Both sculptures involve single plaster-walled cubes with open tops, out of which spiral successively smaller cubes made from metal rods.
Some slight marks of distinction had escaped from her, notwithstanding her own jealous vigilance, else how could Sir Kenneth have so readily and so undoubtingly recognized the lovely hand, of which scarce two fingers were visible from under the veil, or how could he have rested so thoroughly assured that two flowers, successively dropped on the spot, were intended as a recognition on the part of his lady-love? The Talisman
The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. Les Miserables
But if the first pedal is now pushed down into the second notch the original F [flat] string is still further shortened and now sounds the pitch F [sharp] (giving us the key of G), and if all the other pedals are likewise successively lowered to the second notch we get in turn all the _sharp keys_ -- D, A, E, B, Music Notation and Terminology
He successively held the posts of brigade and army commander.
-- Types of bacteria -- cocci: 1, Diagram of sphere indicating planes of fission; 2, diplococci; 3, streptococci; 4, tetrads; 5, sarcinæ; 6, staphylococci.] _Sarcinæ_, where division takes place in three planes successively, and the individuals remain attached in cubical packets of eight and its multiples. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
During my career I worked mainly in counter-espionage and counter-terrorism, becoming successively Director of each of those areas. Stella Rimington - An interview with author

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