succeeding generations
Example Sentences
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His impact on composers of succeeding generations, whether they accept him or oppose him, is indelible.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2024
When the damage accumulates over many succeeding generations, we will have had plenty of advance warning.
From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022
The massive mosque, covering nearly 261,000 square feet, was built in 784 and then expanded by succeeding generations of Muslim rulers known as caliphs.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2022
Organisms may evolve in response to their changing environment by the accumulation of favorable traits in succeeding generations.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
I knew, as everyone knows, the true but incomplete statement of the problem—that an original sin of the fathers was being visited on the children of succeeding generations.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
