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
  • There was more wind and rain in the subsequent few days.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 31 May 2025
  • On the subsequent play, Rodgers looked for Jaylen Warren in the flat.
    — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025
  • The show marked the first of three at the Mumbai sports arena, with subsequent shows on Jan. 19 and Jan. 21.
    — Bailey Richards, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The Iron Claw actor sings all of the tracks himself in the subsequent sequels.
    — Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • His subsequent career took him to Vietnam in the early days of the war there.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
  • In these subsequent ages, green forests have clustered in the rocky canyons where the moisture was sure.
    — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
  • New episodes of the six-part series will air subsequent Sundays at the same time.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
  • On the subsequent Ravens drive, Tucker gave the Ravens a four-point cushion with a 28-yard field goal.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 5 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Hence the subsequent seizure of the homestead at Emmett.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In such a case, a subsequent surgery might be scheduled months after the first one.
    — Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 1 June 2024
  • 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
  • But, as the data in both the US and UK shows, prices tend to stabilize through subsequent years.
    — Alistair Charlton, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Anzalone sacked Tagovailoa, who then threw an incomplete pass on the subsequent play.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In a subsequent news release, police said the car was entering Donnelly Avenue from a nearby driveway when it was struck by an e-bike traveling eastbound.
    — Abigail Adams, People.com, 12 Aug. 2025

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