Example sentences for: successful

How can you use “successful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Storr makes large claims for these paintings, seeing them as the first successful attempt to "systematize the 'allover' painting" invented by Pollock and Rothko.

  • The point about the successful minority members who go to lesser universities is that, like the rest of us who don't get the chance to attend Harvard, they have the opportunity to earn success honestly: They are not shut out.

  • In anticipation of the successful delivery of TP on January 1, 2000, we lay claim to "The official Y2K buster."

  • Doyle McManus decoded Hamdoon on PBS's Washington Week in Review . Saddam had played a successful bait-and-switch game on the West: First, he conjured up the bogus inspector crisis--complaining about U.S. domination of the U.N. teams and ejecting them--to attract the world's attention.

  • On Sunday, for example, the liberal Observer , which previously supported the bombing as a prelude to a successful ground campaign, called Sunday for it to be scaled down, deciding that a land war is no longer a practical possibility.


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