How to Use subsequent in a Sentence

subsequent

adjective
  • Her work had a great influence on subsequent generations.
  • Subsequent studies confirmed their findings.
  • The rate of population growth reached a peak in 1999 and declined in subsequent years.
  • And nothing in the subsequent week seems to have changed that.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Then the court will have a subsequent hearing on the matter.
    Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 7 Oct. 2022
  • There were no injuries at the motel or in the subsequent case.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 18 June 2020
  • The German was ruled out of their subsequent 2-0 win over the group leaders due to a cold.
    SI.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Use by the swim club was not on the agenda of two subsequent board meetings.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Coolidge is barely seen in the subsequent two episodes.
    Greg Braxton, latimes.com, 16 June 2019
  • Soul Café has a lot to lose from a subsequent shutdown.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Make sure the paper's edge is flush with the plumb line to start, then align subsequent strips with the strip before them.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Outlay rates indicate the amount that gets spent in the course of that year and subsequent years.
    Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 17 Apr. 2017
  • His subsequent career took him to Vietnam in the early days of the war there.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
  • In a subsequent post, the group said that the second person had later died.
    Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • But subsequent events and new state polling have proven Cohn's take to be even shakier.
    David Faris, TheWeek, 12 May 2020
  • The more important guests got to try items on—for subsequent ‘Grams.
    Cam Wolf, GQ, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The scale of the subsequent protests has been unlike anything Belarus had seen.
    USA Today, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The subsequent protests led to some light reforms, like bias training for the city’s police.
    Krithika Varagur, The New York Review of Books, 26 June 2020
  • The show will premiere with two half-hour episodes, with back-to-back episodes will also air in subsequent weeks.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
  • But in three subsequent meetings, the Mavs took all three, though two were squeakers.
    Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2020
  • In the subsequent post, Amy gives her husband major props for helping her in a pinch — time and time again.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Some mobile users may need to use this link to see this split ticket map and subsequent maps on this page.
    Zachary Smith, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Those who aren’t able to speak during that one hour will have to return to a subsequent hearing.
    Drew Kann, ajc, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The final girl from whom all subsequent final girls have sprung.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • All of this seemed to fly in the face of everything that happened in that finale sit-down, and the subsequent shouty three-part reunion.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Till’s murder and the subsequent trial is not a spoiler.
    Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • In the end, the department missed more than a dozen deadlines, subsequent reports show.
    Laurence Du Sault, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The solution has been to pave the adjacent lane on subsequent nights.
    Wayne K. Roustan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • But subsequent appeals have held up the high-profile case.
    Bill Rankin, ajc, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Thousands of civilians died in those and subsequent airstrikes.
    Caitlin Dwyer, Longreads, 29 May 2021

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