chain of events
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
1
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A series of occurrences seen as chronologically linked, and generally in which each occurrence is caused by the previous one and in turn causes the next.
Example Sentences
- "to set off / spark / start a chain of events"
- "A chain of events was set in motion."
- "It was the Spirit of the Lord that rescued the Jews from the malice of Haman, by a chain of events, which had no cognation one with another, nor any natural suitableness to such an end:"
- "[…] the Historian traces the Series of Actions according to their natural Order, remounts to their secret Springs and Principles, and delineates their most remote Consequences. He chuses for his Subject a certain Portion of that great Chain of Events, which compose the History of Mankind:"
- "The true story of the broken marriage engagement comes first in point of time, and must therefore take the first place in the present narrative. Tracing my way back along the chain of events, from one end to the other, I find it necessary to open the scene […]"
- "To others the little adventure must seem trivial, but to myself it represented the climax of a chain of events."