successor

How To Use successor In A Sentence

• His successors built it up, and then a brilliant ruler name Hammurabi took power as the sixth king of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• The case has offered an insight into travails he faced running the family business and securing a successor. Times, Sunday Times
• Theodoric, and the professions of his successor, in Procopius, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Their latest disc is a worthy successor to their popular debut album.
• Shiites of this branch believed that the Prophet Muhammad's successors or vicars were his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, and the eleven lineal descendants of Ali and the Prophet's daughter, Fatima.
• By the late 1980s, she was grooming him as her successor.
• In this light, even the discussion about successors to Heinlein nags at me, because I see it, perhaps unfairly, as another aspect of trying to come up with easy categorization in a field where such categorization is anything but easy and where labels create false expectation after false expectation. January « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
• A list of the names of subscribers and family successors is on display on the church notice board.
• Carson's hostility to increasing human control over nature is expressed in many different ways by her successors.
• To their millionaire owners and portico-loving architects, they are temples of mock baroque and neo-Tudor excess that serve as worthy successors to the great country houses of the past.