How to Use follow-on in a Sentence

follow-on

adjective
  • The sailor was rescued safely and left the ship for follow-on care.
    — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Now, there’s some logical follow-on to that.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Then there were some follow-on announcements that sort of played that down a little bit.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The follow-on round is expected to close by the end of August.
    — Anniek Bao,elaine Yu, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • And some of the investments were follow-on rounds for the same companies.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Hackers with access to source code can use it for follow-on attacks on other systems.
    — Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Fiber is emerging as a follow-on to protein's rise in consumer attention.
    — Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • More to explore Seager and her team aim to launch follow-on missions to Venus, too.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2026
  • And while the weight-loss studies did include far more women than men, many of the follow-on heart disease trials did not.
    — Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • And the follow-on projects Koech describes exist only on paper.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The military went back in, reportedly with a follow-on strike.
    — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • As long as the top line continued to climb, follow-on venture funding likely would be available.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
  • Needless to say, after the ayatollah was killed in the first days of the war, the follow-on regime has turned out to be tougher.
    — Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 23 Aug. 2026
  • That stint lasted two years, with a follow-on of two years in 2018 and 2019.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Any follow-on messages will be added to the context window and sent back as additional tokens.
    — Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
  • Star Catcher has already started work on a larger follow-on spacecraft.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
  • But in many cases, once the investment is made, follow-on projects accelerate.
    — Maggie Laird, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • Some lawmakers have questioned whether that follow-on strike constituted a war crime.
    — CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • Some lawmakers questioned whether the follow-on strike constituted a war crime.
    — CBS News, 29 May 2026
  • But companies don’t invest in follow-on research based solely on chemistry.
    — Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Taking the pilot out of the cockpit will come as a follow-on certification project.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
  • The pilot is in stable condition and receiving follow-on care.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Its mission is to jam radars, blind missile batteries, and create corridors for follow-on forces.
    — Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • About 100 of them received follow-on hacks that used the backdoor to install a second-stage payload.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This funding led to investments in six new companies and five follow-on investments.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • When two people survived, the military went back in, reportedly, with a follow-on strike.
    — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • South Africa was 238-8 at tea with Harmer and Maharaj able to go past the follow-on mark.
    — ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
  • In at least one instance, survivors have been killed in follow-on strikes, which experts have said is at odds with military law and rules of engagement.
    — ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • Google has committed up to $40 billion in follow-on investment.
    — Pranay Ahlawat, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Republicans have defended the follow-on strike, arguing the survivors may have still been in the fight.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025

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