How to Use succeed in a Sentence

succeed

verb
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  • Both of them have ambitions to succeed the prime minister.
  • James I succeeded to the throne upon the Queen's death in 1603.
  • The job of any team is to put their players in the best position to succeed.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • Why were the researchers able to succeed in dating the ship when others had failed?
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • On YouTube, viewers see the drone missions that succeed, not those that fail.
    — Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Maya Hawke: And are watching each other grow and fail and succeed.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • As a kid, Wesley Jackson Wade should have been set up to succeed.
    — Claire Sibonney, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Teams will then select in the reverse order in each succeeding round of the 15-round draft.
    — John Wawrow, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The teams that succeed often in those are usually the teams that do all the little things right and have a good bullpen.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2024
  • After that effort did not succeed, the project was given more than a year to wind down.
    — Jacob Ward, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Valenti will succeed Renaud de Lesquen, who’s been at the helm since April 2020.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 July 2024
  • Recruits should like that his offenses succeeded in both the MAC and the Pac-12.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Read more Ed Lab: Some high-poverty schools do succeed.
    — Rebecca Griesbach | Rgriesbach@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2023
  • They were stunned that the Allies had succeeded in so little time.
    — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Its title refers to her successful style of breaking the rules to succeed.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Barry tries to make the accident occur and succeeds, sort of.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 June 2023
  • The teams who are succeeding in the playoffs have not had a few weeks off to plan their playoff roster and approach.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Bettman spent decades trying to keep a team there, and the league believes a Phoenix franchise could still succeed with the right owner and arena.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 2 June 2024
  • The big unanswered question this year is whether a roster with all awards plays and zero box-office draws can succeed.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In other words, who will succeed media titan Logan Roy at the helm of his empire?
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 30 May 2023
  • And while climate change experts will be rooting for the EU to succeed, they are alarmed by its leaders’ scurrying retreat in the face of the farmer protests.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Whether Rivian will succeed in meeting its targets for R2’s debut is still up in the air.
    — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 30 May 2023
  • In the coming years, another nephew will succeed the couple.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2023
  • In temporarily blocking the Biden ban on new approvals, Cain said the states will likely succeed in their case.
    — Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 2 July 2024
  • Porsche and Volkswagen had not yet made a splash in the United States, but the two car companies were growing and succeeding.
    — Bob Sorokanich, Robb Report, 26 July 2024
  • By many measures, Gao, who is 36 years old, has succeeded already.
    — Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In an echo of that attack, Hamas succeeded because Israeli officials made many of the same mistakes that were made in 1973.
    — Maria Abi-Habib, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Mary Anne’s brother, Isaac, apparently as averse to change as his father, succeeded him in the same job.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • They are being succeeded at the helm by Allen MacDonald.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 1 July 2024
  • Mince is the college’s fourth president, succeeding James Ball, who retired July 5.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024

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