How to Use consequent in a Sentence

consequent

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  • Falling sales and a consequent loss of profits forced the company to lay off more workers.
  • Weather forecasters predict heavy rains and consequent flooding.
  • The stress and the consequent loss of control felt familiar.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The consequent lack of supply at a time of rising demand has raised prices.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
  • In older times people used the first borehole as fridge to store consequent cores in there.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Was this—and the consequent feeling of fraudulence—what set loose the saboteur?
    — Tom Junod, Esquire, 22 Apr. 2014
  • Any pressure applied to part of the mat causes a distortion in the fibres and a consequent change in the amount of light transmitted.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • The pandemic and the consequent lockdown has slammed the world economy.
    — NBC News, 22 May 2020
  • Amid the fear of Covid-19 transmission and consequent lockdowns, the global chorus was to stay alive by staying at home.
    — Yerramalli Subramaniam, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • He's used to employing shock value, and the consequent outrage often rolls off the backs of people here.
    — Vincent Bevins, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
  • But scientists are worried by the rapid melting of polar ice — and the consequent rise in sea levels.
    — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2019
  • But the trend was made worse by the pandemic and consequent staff shortages in child welfare industries.
    — Katherine Landergan, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The new law has local support, since the high number of tourist apartments has caused a shortage—and consequent rise in rents—in the city, but the tourism industry is not happy.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Town & Country, 30 Jan. 2017
  • These constant surprises and consequent new rules are the main shortcoming of first-wave AIs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2019
  • But a reopening of economies and consequent return of workers to offices have seen demand slide from its peak.
    — Sankalp Phartiyal, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The decline in employment and the consequent earnings loss would mean that child poverty would only fall by 22% and deep child poverty would not fall at all.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Where once five panels were required on the coupe's rear fender, one now does the job—with a consequent improvement in appearance.
    — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 8 July 2023
  • There is a kind of helplessness to Trump as well, caused by his lack of self-control and his consequent lack of control over his own White House and the administrative branch.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 11 Aug. 2020
  • How have the war in Ukraine and the consequent desire to reduce reliance on Russian oil and gas changed the prospect for a transition to renewable-energy sources?
    — Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2022
  • This corresponds to the spread of Phoenician traders and settlers from their home cities in the Levant into the western Mediterranean, and the consequent exploitation of galena mines in Iberia.
    — The Economist, 19 May 2018
  • But their consequent male bonding is revealed to be flimsy once Patrick loses his temper with Abel in a shocking display of rage.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The shares had been battered by a disastrous year earlier that saw a coup attempt, bombings, and a consequent tourism crisis.
    — Tugce Ozsoy, Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Their consequent conversation could conclude in an agreement to revisit the timetable, staffing, and budget for the project, which could increase the odds of success.
    — Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The consequent protrusion, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, may help reduce the chance of a crease developing in the middle of the screen over time, one of the people said.
    — latimes.com, 4 July 2019
  • The consequent Legionnaires’ outbreak caused at least 12 deaths.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Much was owed to the sharpening color line consequent to the increasing assertiveness of the enslaving South.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The House would then use the consequent savings — plus rosy assumptions about economic growth — to finance a buildup in military spending and massive tax breaks for the rich.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 18 July 2017
  • Stay away until the crash is over and then acquire bitcoin until the next halvening and the consequent vertical rally.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • The consequent scandal prompted two high-profile divorces and one of the messiest breakups in royal history.
    — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Syrians hope the consequent resumption of trade with Arab countries would ease much of this economic weight.
    — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2022

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