Sentence examples for antecedent in from inspiring English sources

"Their" should not be used with a singular antecedent, in this case "customer".

It has an antecedent in the Reagan administration, which used signing statements to parry the legislative history created by Congress.

Those against the change argued that the name had an historical antecedent in the Rev. Thomas Hooker, a Colonial-era settler.

But, by and large, all these issues are antecedent in Washington politics to the question of whether there shall or shall not be "civil-rights" legislation.

It's been said before but Harvey's most obvious antecedent – in sound, intelligence and sheer force of personality – is the punk-poet Patti Smith.

The plural pronoun "their" can't refer to the singular CNN (and sticklers might argue that CNN, used here as a modifier, isn't a proper antecedent in any case).

They had pretty modest antecedents, in both pedigree and performance.

The piece has antecedents in "Afternoon of a Faun," the Nijinsky ballet.

"Vicky Cristina Barcelona," like many of his films, has antecedents in European cinema.

But, she added, Halloween does have churchly antecedents in All Saints' Day.

(But the current boom in emo has antecedents in the 1980's and 90's).