Sentence examples for sort of precursor from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kelley was a percussionist in the seminal noise band Destroy All Monsters, a sort of precursor to punk rock.

In its competitive form, in which two poets improvise verses selected by the public, some argue it is a sort of precursor of rap.

The second movement is a study in monotony — a sort of precursor to Satie — and the pianist wisely lets it tick along.

And, of course, given the subject of "Girls"—cultural creators in their youth it really isn't apt to call "Les Bonnes Femmes" any sort of precursor.

"Even though there were uprisings in the ghetto going on," he said, "there were very few songs that mirrored this, and so I sort of invented and hobbled together this style, which was a sort of precursor to rap".

Buruma called the book the first entry in the genre of "confessional biography," and I suppose it's possible that Naipaul has come to view Theroux's book as a sort of precursor to a story he himself wanted told.

Fourth, sorting of precursor proteins is functionally and physically connected to protein machineries, which fulfill central functions for respiration, maintenance of membrane architecture and form contacts to the endoplasmic reticulum.

Like we were in sort of the precursor to Place Pages back in something like 2006 and then we left because we weren't really happy in the direction it was going and we thought OK we'll just show up in organic results and everybody is still happy.

Anyway, this is sort of a precursor to the next issue of Vice.

Currie said the system surrounding HD 100546 is a sort of "evolutionary precursor" to HR 8799, the first multiple-planet system to be directly imaged after it was discovered in 2008.

Her opponents were George Moscone, a progressive aligned with the labor movement, and John Barbagelata, whom Roberts described as "sort of a Tea Party precursor".