Read full poem →A flight of bold eagles from Adria’s strand:
Repeated, successive, for many long years,
They darken’d the air, and they plunder’d the land:
Dictionary Entry
successive
Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/səkˈsɛsɪv/Word FrequencyNot availableCurriculum FrequencyLess common (1)Used In Literature ↓Coming one after the other in a series.
In a Sentence
“They had won the title for five successive years.”
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Poetry examples for “successive”
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