SERIES in a Sentence

Learn SERIES from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

187 example sentences for SERIES, such as:

1. We heard a series of explosions.
2. Life is a series of collisions with the future.
3. Congress passed a series of important measures.
4. The group suffered an extraordinary series of minor mishaps.
5. This publishing firm is planning a new series of school textbooks.

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 Meanings and Examples of SERIES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
series
 n.  (plural) a number of things or events standing or succeeding in order; sequence
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
2  Neither yours nor any man's death is needed to consummate the series of my being and accomplish that which must be done, but it requires my own.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
3  Evidently it surprised her as much as it did me, for she yawned and with a series of rapid, deft movements stood up into the room.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  At least---- He fumbled with a series of beginnings.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  As he drew near the town, he took an impression of change from the series of familiar objects that presented themselves.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
6  At this time of the year, and after such a series of rain, we shall certainly have very little more of it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
7  I considered the past: I saw in my own behaviour, since the beginning of our acquaintance with him last autumn, nothing but a series of imprudence towards myself, and want of kindness to others.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46
8  So, up a dark brown staircase into a series of three dark brown rooms on the first floor.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
9  Of Dora's making a long series of surprised discoveries that she has forgotten all sorts of little things; and of everybody's running everywhere to fetch them.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
10  I had reason to believe that in accomplishing these failures we incurred a far greater expense than if we had achieved a series of triumphs.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
11  This was a lofty, mysterious religion connected with a whole series of noble thoughts and feelings, which one could do more than merely believe because one was told to, which one could love.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 33
12  Another series of thoughts and mental images related to the life he longed to live now.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
13  But a third series of ideas turned upon the question how to effect this transition from the old life to the new.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
14  Shortly after his separation from his wife, he began writing his first note on the new judicial procedure, the first of the endless series of notes he was destined to write in the future.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 24
15  And there passed before his mind a whole series of these mettlesome, vigorous, self-confident men, who always and everywhere drew his inquisitive attention in spite of himself.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 25
Example Sentence: (113 in 8 pages)
16  He went into TV and got his first break playing opposite Sid James in the series "Citizen James".
17  We heard a series of explosions.
18  Congress passed a series of important measures.
19  Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data.
20  The police are trying to determine the series of events that led up to the murder.
21  The director drew the meeting out for another hour with a series of tedious questions.
22  The series of speeches on the economy was uninspiring and a rehash of old subjects.
23  This publishing firm is planning a new series of school textbooks.
24  The focus of interest in the series is what goes on in everyday life.
25  Life is a series of collisions with the future.
26  The group suffered an extraordinary series of minor mishaps.
27  By this time a series of scandals had severely tarnished the leader's image/reputation.
28  The series will include both fiction and non-fiction.
29  Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences.
30  Sampling procedures, then, necessarily involve a series of compromises.