How to Use succeed in a Sentence

succeed

verb

• The plan just might succeed.
• She will succeed him as chair of the committee.
• You can succeed where others failed.
• Both of them have ambitions to succeed the prime minister.
• Their attempt seemed unlikely to succeed.
• The Queen died and was succeeded by James I.
• 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
• 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
• After that effort did not succeed, the project was given more than a year to wind down.
  — Jacob Ward, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• 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
• Rupert Murdoch has long made clear that one of his two sons would ultimately succeed him.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Declarer won and could have succeeded, with a crystal ball, by finessing against East’s jack of clubs.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• Dummy’s nine of diamonds is a winner; but even if West had held Q-J-10-x, Cy would succeed if spades broke 3-2 or almost surely with a squeeze.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024