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Example sentences for: successively

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

It passed successively into the hands of the French West Indies Trading Company (to store its spices), the British, and, during their brief occupation of the city in 1775, the American generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold.
They were conquered successively by Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Christians, and Moors.
It is similar, in principle, to finding a synonym in a synonym dictionary and then successively looking up its synonyms to find their synonyms.
cDNA clones for differentially expressed genes were identified by successively screening new clones first with the unsubtracted driver cDNA (Figure 2a) and tester (Figure 2b) cDNA pools as the probes, then the forward-subtracted (Figure 2c) and reverse-subtracted (Figure 2d) cDNA pools as probes.
As for challenges, I am currently looking for a word that can be cut into two successively smaller forms.