Sentence examples for Precede from inspiring English sources

The word 'precede' is correct and commonly used in written English
It means to come before something in time, order, or rank. It can also mean to go in front of someone or something. Example: The presentation will precede the ceremony. (The presentation will come before the ceremony in terms of order.) Example: The new policy will precede any existing policies. (The new policy will come before any existing policies in terms of rank.) Example: The parade will be preceded by a marching band. (The marching band will go in front of the parade.)

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Precede

verb

To go before, go in front of.

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To precede the section concerned with the wholly disarming George, the 21st-century 15-year-old, Wood made an image of a CCTV camera.

Downton, in his now defunct role, would have given the final sign-off for these two warm-up games which precede the three-Test series against West Indies.

Steven Osborne Birmingham Conservatoire, Wed Beethoven's Op 119 Bagatelles and Waldstein Sonata precede a selection of Rachmaninov's Preludes.

THE delightful (though small) plates of tapas that often accompany an evening drink in Spain can, if eaten with gusto, end up replacing the meal they were meant to precede.

In the process he grew close to his opposite number, Abu Ala (Ahmed Qurei), and became expert in the quirks, quibbles and humour that precede a crucial decision.

The ZEW tends to precede changes in economic activity by around six months.Japan's economy is technically back in recession.

But today, in contrast to the 1950s, marriage is bound up with another bourgeois institution: property.In China mortgages often precede marriages.

Ditching Ms Yingluck, a main demand of opposition parties calling for reform to precede the election, might oblige those parties to take part.

On current policies, the six years of small fiscal surpluses (well below 1% of GDP) between 2002 and 2007 will precede a period of sizeable deficits.

But things being as they are, the miscellany of dismal fatwas and communiqués that precede and follow al-Qaeda's attacks provide useful clues, both about future targets and about how the terrorists intend to mobilise wider Muslim opinion behind their cause.One recent trend is that al-Qaeda is pushing Palestine up its list of priorities.

Albania has started negotiating an SAA but is also much too poor and messy for fast-track expectations.Bosnia is now the area's laggard, though it has nearly completed an EU "feasibility study" that must precede SAA talks.

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