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
Together, China’s first dynasties—the Shang, Zhou, and Qin—produced an imperial blueprint for harnessing the power of an agrarian civilization that succeeding generations of Chinese adopted and modified to found their own dynasties.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Yet in 2019, they began to be surpassed by succeeding generations.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2022
His long life of service, his Kansas values, his sharp sense of humor, his love of country: They were all great gifts to his and succeeding generations.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021
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
