Treated in linear fashion, the events and relationships here would not add up to much.

With paper documents, one usually reads from beginning to end in a linear fashion.

Teams are not always expected to progress in a linear fashion through all of the stages.

"Programs run in a linear fashion," he said, explaining why a useful program was a ways off.

And then it keeps on going in a linear fashion.

He is not, however, explaining the story in linear fashion.

The series is not told in a linear fashion.

And history proceeded one step at a time, in a linear fashion.

The levels are built in a more linear fashion than earlier games.

Most white children, he said, tell stories in a "linear" fashion, proceeding clearly from one event to the next.