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: subsequent development
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: the next installment (as of a speech or story)
especially
: a literary, cinematic, or televised work continuing the course of a story begun in a preceding one
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Examples of sequel in a Sentence
The new film is a sequel to the very successful comedy that came out five years ago.
He is busy writing the book's sequel.
There is an interesting sequel to my date with her that I'll share with you later.
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Following the runaway success of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator in 2000 ($465 million in business at the box office and five Academy Awards, including best picture), the director fantasized for years about making a sequel.
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Elaina Patton, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Cross Creek also acquired the sequel manuscript, Trucked Up 2, together with its accompanying music album by Cape Mr. 500, in the transaction.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
Scripts for a potential sequel, some of them infamous, have come and gone over the past 20 years, and a massive biblical epic is not a project most octogenarian folks would take on.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
End credits or post-credits scenes generally either tie up loose ends for a scene earlier in a film or set up a transition scene to tease a possible sequel.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Elaina Patton, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Cross Creek also acquired the sequel manuscript, Trucked Up 2, together with its accompanying music album by Cape Mr. 500, in the transaction.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
Scripts for a potential sequel, some of them infamous, have come and gone over the past 20 years, and a massive biblical epic is not a project most octogenarian folks would take on.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
End credits or post-credits scenes generally either tie up loose ends for a scene earlier in a film or set up a transition scene to tease a possible sequel.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for sequel
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“Sequel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sequel. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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Etymology
Middle English sequel, sequele "follower, series," from early French sequelle (same meaning), from Latin sequella, sequela "follower," from sequi "to follow" — related to consecutive, pursue, second entry 1, sequence
Medical Definition
sequel
noun
se·quel
ˈsē-kwəl also -ˌkwel
: sequela
gangrene is … a sequel of wounds—Robert Chawner
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