SEQUEL in a Sentence

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24 example sentences for SEQUEL, such as:

1. The long/eagerly awaited sequel is now available on video.
2. But I suspect it is the sequel of the story of the statues.
3. There was an interesting sequel to these events later in the year.
4. The young men burst into a laugh, and as may be supposed, the affair had no other sequel.
5. Voltairian royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist liberalism.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEQUEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sequel
 n.  a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
 n.  something that follows something else
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  How graciously Amy criticized the artistic parts of the story, and offered hints for a sequel, which unfortunately couldn't be carried out, as the hero and heroine were dead.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
2  Besides, since yesterday I have experienced the excitement of a person to whom a tale has been half-told, and who is impatient to hear the sequel.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  I had thought he would hardly speak to me, and I was certain he had given up the pursuit of his matrimonial scheme: the sequel showed I was mistaken on both points.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  He drank the spirits and impatiently bade us go; terminating his command with a sequel of horrid imprecations too bad to repeat or remember.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  She would not hear of staying a second longer: in truth, I felt rather disposed to defer the sequel of her narrative myself.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  On the very day, however, before I left, an incident occurred which proved in the sequel to be of importance.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
7  The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
8  For this reason I will now lay before the reader the facts connected with Miss Violet Smith, the solitary cyclist of Charlington, and the curious sequel of our investigation, which culminated in unexpected tragedy.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
9  But I suspect it is the sequel of the story of the statues.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
10  Theodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible sequel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
11  Voltairian royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist liberalism.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
12  The young men burst into a laugh, and as may be supposed, the affair had no other sequel.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS
13  To this retreat he descended as soon as the house was quiet, and Zeena's steady breathing from the bed had assured him that there was to be no sequel to the scene in the kitchen.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
14  The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
15  Nothing more stupid than that could have been devised, or more disastrous for the army, as the sequel showed.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  The rumour is that there is a sequel to the movie in the works, although this has not been confirmed.
2  The long/eagerly awaited sequel is now available on video.
3  There was an interesting sequel to these events later in the year.
4  That is an actual line of dialogue from the movie, a vibrant but scattershot sequel to a 2014 hit.
5  The sequel short-changes Angelina Jolie's heroine, of the glaring green contact lenses, black horns on her head and ultra-sharp prosthetic cheekbones.
6  Considering the story's ending and recent news on a possible sequel, we can all confidently pucker up for another hit.
7  There was talk of releasing a Star Wars film every year; of an interconnected universe stitched together through a combination of sequels, prequels, and spin-offs.