How to Use sequential in a Sentence

sequential

adjective

• Put the cards in sequential order.
• Among food items, the index for oil and fats recorded the largest sequential price hike, by 5.3% in March.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2022
• In a sequential lung transplant, the patient will rely on the use of one lung during the surgery.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 12 June 2020
• Suppose West looks at his sequential club holding and leads the jack.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
• Search revenue will be key—people will want to see sequential growth from the first quarter.
  — Bystephen Pastis, Fortune, 24 July 2023
• This game took place in Chicago, but the Red Sox mirrored their opponents in playing the song in the sequential games.
  — Calum Trenaman, CNN, 19 June 2020
• They’re all born male, but some turn into females (a process known as sequential hermaphroditism).
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• Moreover, in Hupp's dresser was a $100 bill that was a sequential match to four of the bills in Gumpenberger's pocket.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2021
• The cover and some exclusive (non-sequential) pages from the book are shown below.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2019
• Now using a single disc clutch and six gears in a sequential pattern.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 30 July 2022
• The therapy includes four sequential injections -- one in the back of both arms and two shots in the abdomen.
  — Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2021
• Could Chartier have invented the sequential turn signal or at the very least given Ford the idea for it?
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Mar. 2023
• The Emira race car will come with a 6-speed sequential transmission from Xtrac and brake discs and calipers from Alcon.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 8 Sep. 2021
• Each of the moments described are self-contained and sequential.
  — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2022
• The journey challenge tasked the three guys to take 20 Survivor logos and place them in sequential order.
  — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
• This translates into a sequential growth of at least 35%.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• At the beginning of each season, the Saints outline a series of sequential goals.
  — Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 25 Dec. 2020
• The midpoint of that outlook would represent a plunge of 24% from the first quarter, which would be Micron’s largest sequential drop in a decade.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
• The most daunting issue: fitting an engine and adapting it to the sequential transaxle.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2019
• Both proof-of-work and proof-of-stake systems rely on group action to order and safeguard a blockchain’s sequential record.
  — Allyson Versprille, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
• The car wash model also was good for workers who are on the spectrum since the tasks are sequential and are repeated throughout the day.
  — Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• The app creates a sequential web address for each file that bounces through its servers, which means anyone can view those files at random.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 21 Nov. 2020
• The starts are staggered, and the race is won based on time, so watch for boats passing one another or look for the sequential numbers on the bows to see who is winning.
  — Shannon Eblen, Philly.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• The sequential gearbox will upshift with the accelerator floored, and the shift lights on the dash encourage the full use of the available rev range.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 1 June 2022
• What Mamet gives us here is more a dreamscape of the 1920s than any sort of accurate sequential rendering.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• The turbos aren't sequential, instead serving three holes per, and the low-end torque is plentiful.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 11 Oct. 2022
• The lights come with rain and light sensors as well as sequential LED indicators.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 21 Dec. 2022
• The trigger: Netflix’s first-quarter 2022 earnings report, which for the first time in a decade showed a sequential subscriber loss.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Known as sequential molting, this behavior leaves small gaps on the birds’ wings where budding feathers eventually grow into place.
  — science.org, 3 July 2024
• By the fall of 2018, the United States was preparing for intensive negotiations with Russia along two sequential tracks.
  — Brett McGurk, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024