Sentence examples for to predating from inspiring English sources
verb
To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
They can lay claim to predating the police force, having looked after and out for our communities, in some shape or form, since the ninth century, many hundreds of years before Robert Peel set up a full-time force to combat crime in cities.
Given the current state-of-the art, it is difficult to attribute the majority of bacterial and archaeal losses to predating protist grazers.
The results are inconsistent with the view that predators used box edges to predate the less mobile consumer trophic group.
On the other hand, while both hosts and predators suffer fitness costs from being infected, or not being able to predate, their costs are arguably much lower.
However, it proved to predate the era he thought it to be.
It has to predate all that, anyway, y'know what I'm saying?
But "Khasanbegura" is a traditional Georgian song, with music thought to predate its 19th-century text.
However, at least some of the shift appeared to predate the conventions.
We drove past tidal flats of such barrenness that they appeared to predate multicellular life.
Then there's the Slanket, which claims to predate the Snuggie.
An executive from New York was looking at ivory ornaments old enough to predate a ban on trade in such artifacts.
