Sentence examples for was a predecessor from inspiring English sources
This festival was a predecessor for all the jazz festivals to follow.
He started a wireless company that was a predecessor to Verizon Wireless.
"It was a predecessor to the cell phone," Mr. Winter said.
Weekend Update was a predecessor of the newspaper parody, not the reverse.
Not only did she feed great artists, she was a predecessor of Julia Child.
Munson, the former Yankees captain, was a predecessor of Piazza as a star catcher in New York.
William James's "Varieties of Religious Experience" is a predecessor.
He is thought to have been a predecessor to Mark Kennedy, the police spy unmasked two years ago.
But Holly Golightly in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is a predecessor of all the drag queens of the nineties.
Written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell, the song is a predecessor of sorts to "Take This Job and Shove It".
Another presumed bicycle ancestor, the vélocifère, or célérifère, of the 1790s was a fast horse-drawn coach that is not considered to be a predecessor of the bicycle.
