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
• Brazilians have seen coups succeed and stay for decades.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 9 Jan. 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
• Pacheco feels blessed to have parents that care for him so much and that further drives him to succeed.
  — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023
• Duro succeeds Eli Velazquez, who is leaving the company at the end of the month.
  — Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Young people arrive, some stay and some go, some succeed and some fail.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 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
• To achieve success in football, a team has to succeed in all facets of the game: offense, defense and special teams.
  — Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
• To succeed, Eggman’s bill will likely need to pass that same committee in the coming months.
  — Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
• That means the Warriors didn’t succeed in wearing out the Lakers key players.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023
• Barry tries to make the accident occur and succeeds, sort of.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 June 2023
• If instead East grabs his ace of hearts to continue spades, South still succeeds.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
• Levesque succeeds John Koryl, who has departed from the company after about two years in the role and no longer serves on the board.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024