Successive has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | I went there by myself, often on successive evenings. | |
| 2. | It rained five successive days. | |
| 3. | Today's land problems are the product of years of neglect by successive governments. | |
| 4. | It is hard to win four successive games. | |
| 5. | He won four successive world championships. | |
| 6. | Afterwards, because it was sanctioned by many of the successive dynasties Buddhism became widespread and had a tremendous impact on the development of Chinese thought, culture and art. | |
| 7. | Tom won three successive matches. | |
| 8. | In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency. | |
| 9. | Have there been several successive souls in me, or am I one unconscious being? | |
| 10. | We have watched the fortunes of eight successive human species for a thousand million years, the first half of that flicker which is the duration of man. Ten more species now succeed one another, or are contemporary, on the plains of Neptune. We, the Last Men, are the Eighteenth Men. Of the eight pre-Neptunian species, some, as we have seen, remained always primitive; many achieved at least a confused and fleeting civilization, and one, the brilliant Fifth, was already wakening into true humanity when misfortune crushed it. The ten Neptunian species show an even greater diversity. They range from the instinctive animal to modes of consciousness never before attained. The definitely sub-human degenerate types are confined mostly to the first six hundred million years of man's sojourn on Neptune. |