How to Use nonconsecutive in a Sentence

nonconsecutive

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  • Dark Side of the Moon has now lived on the roster for 985 nonconsecutive frames.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The cut has now controlled the all-genre list for 15 nonconsecutive turns.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The poppy cut from her album Lover has now led the charge for three nonconsecutive turns.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Do this workout up to three times per week, on nonconsecutive days.
    Caitlin Carlson, Women's Health, 17 July 2023
  • Map of the Soul: 7 has now controlled the World Albums chart for 26 nonconsecutive weeks, or exactly half a year.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Between that point and mid-January, the song racked up four nonconsecutive stays atop the ranking in three stints.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The tune drops 2-3 on the Adult R&B Airplay chart, with an 8% decline in plays in the latest tracking week, after five nonconsecutive weeks in the runner-up spot.
    Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Incumbent Alan Grasley has served two nonconsecutive terms and Leo Keenan has been on the council since 2007.
    Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 May 2021
  • Robert Shaw was elected as an alderman in the 9th Ward in two nonconsecutive terms.
    Tatyana Turner, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2021
  • The leave may be taken on nonconsecutive days, but generally must be used within three months of the loss.
    Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The album is currently in its fourth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 20 July 2021
  • Folklore is back on top for an eighth nonconsecutive week!
    Gab Ginsberg, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The Highlights has now spent seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 2 on the U.K. albums ranking.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The congresswoman has served three nonconsecutive times in the House.
    John Gage, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2020
  • This last happened during the 2000 dot-com bust, which played out in nonconsecutive quarterly drops.
    Phillip W. Magness, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • Indeed, pretty much everyone more or less gets along in the four nonconsecutive episodes sent to critics.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The bestseller has owned the purchase-only list for 17 nonconsecutive turns, tying as the second-longest-running leader of all time.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • As noted above, Folklore returns to No. 1 for a seventh nonconsecutive week on top.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Evermore is back at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a fourth nonconsecutive frame months after its last stint in charge of the all-encompassing ranking of the best-performing albums in the U.S.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • Four years later, he was elected again, the only president to hold two nonconsecutive terms in office.
    Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Lula, as he is commonly called, has a long track record as an established politician and leader; this is his third, nonconsecutive term as president of Brazil.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2023
  • K Chase McLaughlin Practice squad players can be promoted twice for nonconsecutive game days without having to be signed to the active roster.
    Andrew Krammer, Star Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The multiday passes save riders about 15 percent on a day pass or single-trip fare, officials said, and can be used on consecutive or nonconsecutive days.
    Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2021
  • And the last time a one-term president was renominated after losing was Grover Cleveland in 1892, although Cleveland did win a second nonconsecutive term.
    ABC News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Instead, Ecuador’s system moves closer to Colombia’s, which limits presidents to a single four-year term, and Peru’s, which allows re-election only if the terms are nonconsecutive.
    Maggy Ayala and Marcelo RochabrÚn, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Barnes, who has long maintained his innocence, testified in his own defense near the end of the trial, which occurred on nonconsecutive days and finally concluded on Monday.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Branstad, now President Donald Trump’s ambassador to China, went on to serve as governor for 22 (nonconsecutive) years.
    Leah McBride Mensching, Slate Magazine, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The apparent front-runner is that successor’s elder brother: a man who previously held the premiership for three nonconsecutive and incomplete terms and was ousted all three times, jailed in 2018, and cleared of all charges a couple of months ago.
    Nr Editors, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The next month, Cleveland defeated Harrison to become the only president ever to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Only one president, Grover Cleveland, served two nonconsecutive terms, more than a century ago.
    Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022

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